Mount Gede Pangrango National Park

Wandering around with friends. Trekking from some broken path then suddenly it’s the backdoor of the national park, sorry rangers. Sadly we didn’t have quite enough time to enjoy the scenery cuz we had to go back to our villas and continue our schedule for the day. I’ll be back soon and enjoy the solitude of Lembah Mandalawangi on my next visit. Oh, please keep the environment clean guys, so sad there’re many trashes left by campers and visitors!

Beautiful rain forest in West Java. Many activities can be done here. Tracking, adventure, camping, and going to see sunrise from the top of gunung gede or gunung pangrango.
The jungle is evergreen.
Curug (waterfall or air terjun) cibereum is a wonderful place. It have 2 waterfalls.

Normally it takes 7-8 hours from cibodas to get the “roof” of gunung gede.

on the trail to the top of the mountain, you will find some beautiful places:
– Telaga Biru (30 minutes from cibodas)
– Rawa gayonggong (45 minutes)
– pos panyangcangan (60-90 minutes)
– curug cibereum (90-120 minutes)
– air panas (2-3 hours)
– kandang Batu
– kandang badak
– alun-alun suryakencana

Protected forest. Good for hiking and camping and trail runners who like steep climbs and knee-busting down hill run. More effort needed to educate visitors not to litter. Very cold during the night on the camp sites on top of the mountain. Bring thick gloves, socks and clothing if you plan to spend the night. Beautiful sunset and sunrise.

One of the most popular mountain sites on the island of Java. Mount Gede – Pangrango is the mountain with the most visitors every month/year. But it’s a shame that the increasing popularity of this mountain is not proportional linear to the facilities and cleanliness both at the foot of the mountain and along the way to the peak or summit. in each post 1-5 there aren’t provided decent toilets, and at the Suryakencana camping area there are tons of garbage that people leave behind. The officers at the entrance gate were also not careful in checking identity, when I went up with 3 friends, all of our full names were incorrect/didn’t match with what stated on our Identity Cards (KTP), this indicated incompetence at work, human error and neglecting the importance of visitors identity. Also they’re not strict to the rules to check the logistics each group of hiker brings to the mountain and then check up again the garbage when they’re downhill, that’s why they cannot control the garbage in the mountain.
Gunung Gede has several gates, two of the most popular are via Cibodas (near Cibodas market) and via Gunung Putri. I personally prefer hiking via Gunung Putri because the scene and tropical rain forest ambience is very pretty and greener, but the track is quite advanced and steep (meaning your chest will meet your knees).

It’s really a must visit place if you’re crafting for nature, trekking, camping, glamping, and other things related to play with and in the heart of the forest. So amazing you can hear bird singing like mocking jay here while trekking up to mountain or waterfall. Really enjoying this place and the located is not so far from jakarta, it takes only about 2 hours with no massive traffic for sure.