I'm busy taking pictures, so is My Hubby!
Hellow Friends!
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.
