Looks like such a beautiful area, reminds me of some of the Thermal Springs and parks I have visited in New Zealand
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Looks like such a beautiful area, reminds me of some of the Thermal Springs and parks I have visited in New Zealand
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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.thank you @tattoodjay, I finally joining the walk and happy to do it.
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
don't need imagine... it's terribly dangerous, but they have no choice