Walking on the Top Southern Slopes

There are two popular hiking trails on the southern slopes of Mt. Tangkuban Perahu. One of them leads up from the Sukawana Tea Estate toe the south western crater rim (see The Cisarua Area); the other one is from the center of Lembang to the large car park called Jayagiri, which is about halfway up the slope from the main road. This second climb takes about two hours at a relaxed pace.

First steep, later somewhat flatter, the path leads through beautiful pine forest. After some forty-five minutes of walking, you come to where a stony track crosses the path. Following that track to the left for another quarter hour and then taking the wide trail down into the valley, you reach a big gully with waterfalls gushing into it. The highest of these falls may be 10m, but unfortunately you can’t really get to it, let alone swim there. Thick mountain forest envelops the waterfalls, monkeys swing in the tress, and it’s all very remote and quiet. The trail skirts around the gully before descending back to Lembang. On the other side of gully, on top of the little ridge, were once artillery emplacements from which the Japanese army covered the whole Bandung Basin.

Compiled from “All Around Bandung”, Gottfried Roelcke, Gary Crab. Bandung Society for Heritage Conservation