I'm busy taking pictures, so is My Hubby!
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From the articles on google, and a little help of Google Maps, The Place we're heading to known as Tirta Sanita (Sanita Lake). But when we get there, it's actually 3 differrent places now. The first is managed by the Village-Owned Enterprise (Bumdes) as part of Economic Supporting Program by the Government to increase their livelihood called Tirta Aguna, Gunung Panjang Tumaritis. The Second is Tirta Sayaga (Sayaga Lake) and the last is Sanita Lake. Only Sanita Lake has complete services like Inn, children playground, outdoor activitie venue and of course rooms for hot bathing.
We were exploring the first area which has 4 big ponds/pools under the sun but it's not like the hot spring I was thinking about before I get there.
The lower ponds from 3 different levels of ponds where people usually have their bath together. No visitors because of the Pandemic and weekdays
We spent no more than 20 minutes exploring the area. We need to pay IDR 15K/head or 1 HBD to enter the place and if you want to swim in the pools for hours, it's free. But if you want to have a sulfur bathing soap, you need to buy it from the sellers around, IDR 5K/pack (100 grams). We left the place and went to the opposite side of the place, straight to Tirta Sayaga. We need to pay another 1 HBD/person to enter the place, but to have a hot bath we have to pay another sum of money according to the types of room we choose.
I never thought that we'll find such an incredible thing called Bocca Travertine in this beautiful and neat park
What's Bocca Travertine?
According to the information board they have there, this place is a Geoheritage of Mount. Pongkor Geopark. It lies from Lebak to Parung, West Java.
Travertine is a sediment deposit originating by accumulating limestone eroding hot waters resourced from the bowl of the earth. When depositing tarvertine occurs continuosly, a large mound of travertine is going to be formed. This large mound is called as "Bocca Travertine". This mound may cause clogs on the cavity and cracks passing through by hot water. When clefts are closed, the hot water will shift to other places and creates new "Bocca Travertine" there.
information board about Bocca Travertine, I read from otherr articles that "Yellow Stone Park" in USA also similar to this but larger and richer than this one
This Limestone mound looks gorgeous and when we try to climb up, there's no sign that it's forbidden. So, we just climb it up from the other side of the place where the mound looks older and harder.
We can see the water still drops from any parts of this mound but the volume is so little and of course it's not hot anymore. I wonder where they get the hot water for the hot bath in the room around this mound.
The view from the top of the rock hill behind the main Bocca Travertine.
From the top of the Bocca Travertine, we can see the view of every parts of the Tirta Sayaga, I can even see the view of the neighbor's place, Tirta Sanita. I saw a water pool for children at the left side of the Bocca Travertine (from where I stand), the pool is dry. I don't know when was the last time this place is full of screaming and laughing of children having fun with their friends and family.
Maybe this place will looks different during the weekend, when few people will ignore the authority appeal about limited lockdown and come to this place to enjoy their weekend. I wonder whether people will come during this school vacation too. I have enough fun by being the only visitors of the day, LOL.
We don't have any ideas to try having a hot bath during a hot day, so we skip the option to try any of the bath room which has its own rates and different services too. They put the information around, so we can see the options and for me, it's good to know that. So we can arrange a better preparation to enjoy all the services next time we go there.
The view of a part of Tirta Sanita, the artifical lake and the bath room or inn from the top of the travertine mound in Tirta Sayaga, looks tempting with the beautiful pink water lilies blooming.
Beside the Bocca Travertine which I saw for the first time in my life, I enjoy exploring every corners of the place, where big trees everywhere (especially the banyan trees), colourful flowers in the pots and the paved path. They have food courts too, manage by villagers and canteen (the green roof on the picture above). Well I walk six thousands steps around this place excluding the bath rooms.
I have a plan to go to the Fish Market nearby, but my hubby took me straight back home. Maybe he knews that we won't be the only visitors if we go there and it will make me uncomfort to take as much pictures as i want like i did here.
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Wow such a beautiful place, you have been to, love it,❤️
Thank you @oscarpower55, even though this is not a good time to spend a day out during the pandemic, at least we're lucky that we are the only visitors so we can get all this beautiful things wrap up in a post.
And that makes it awesome
exactly... now I found that I'm blessed
@cicisaja, bagus fotonya, suasana sepi pengunjung mungkin masih pandemic covid, like your post.
ya itu kang, salah satu keuntungan pergi ke situ saat pandemi..hahahaha, kalau nggak, mana mungkin bisa ambil banyak foto, udah pasti ada kepala orang dimana-mana kan?
Looks like such a beautiful area, reminds me of some of the Thermal Springs and parks I have visited in New Zealand
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :)
thank you @tattoodjay, I finally joining the walk and happy to do it.
It is beautiful but I wish I could find the source of the natural hot spring here. I think I need to come again to check on the other side of the geopark to find it. What I know, I never seen this kinda Mound in other place where the hot spring is, probably because the limestone is not anywhere around the bowl of the earth.
lets hope next time you can find the source
I just wondered does the area have a smell of sulphur often the spots with geothermal activity and springs back in NZ have that smell
that's the same question I ask when I went there too.. Where's the sulphur come from, why can't i smell it? Where's the mountain with smokes with sulfur smell. I found none... I don't know where the real Mount.Panjang is (the name of the place is Gunung (mountain) Panjang, and where they get the sulphur from. But I saw they dried it under the sun
The water is odorless.. just like ordinary water, but we can find the sulphur at the bottom of the ponds, I think it's not naturally there before. So.. There's no strong smell of sulfur at the place I went. I know there must be somewhere around, I just need to explore it again later.
Thanks for answering thats interestigng, in one city in New Zealand with a lofof geothermal activity, it smells almost like rotten eggs when you first arrive there but you quickly get used to it and do not notice it anymore
same as there the water is so clear
I found a ceramic plate which mentioning about the team who conducted a Geothermal survey around that place, seems like they couldn't find the source too.. that's why it only became a Geoheritage of Geopark Pongkor, not Geothermal Project (I'm more than happy to know that..LOL) because there's another famous place in East Java, Dieng Mountain, A mountain of Sulphur where people around from children to elder working to mine the sulphur everyday. I was wondering how they breath, but as i read your comment, we won't notice it when we're used to it.
Working to mins sulphur must be hard and dangerous I would imagine
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thank you @ecency... I just found my way back to your surfer..Thanks for making it all easier now
I was just over here about 30 minutes ago, read your whole article and apparently left without saying anything or voting or anything 'engagey' and now I feel about this big.
I've been in a few Travertine caverns and caves, one I remember well was in Utah USA, I was a young kid. It was the same day I learned what stalagmites are.
Your husband's a lucky dude.
I've seen another stalagtite and stalagmite.. but I never seen this one. After seeing this bocca I finally read more about what travertine is and I found that you have huge bocca there in Utah and I wonder why can't i find something like huge hot water fountain like in your park there in this place.
Thank you @dandays... you must be thinking that I just do cross posting, LOL.
You had a nice walk and took some great photos of the area. Maybe hot baths next time.
thank you and I will try the hot bath next time, will find a best time during the weekdays and no visitors around too