Gede Pangrango National Park

The Gede Pangrango National Park, about two hours drive away from Jakarta, promises to delight its visitors with a visually stunning feast of moon-like volcanic terrain, misty forests with streams and mountain top meadows.

Covering 150 square kilometers, the main landmarks of the Park are its two Volcanoes, Mount Gede (2,958m) and Mount Pangrango (3,019m), which are located near one another. Though extinct, gasses are still being released from the fissures in the Gede craters. Yet this does not stop the growth of hardy vegetation around the volcanic peak.

Just below the volcanic peaks lies one of the most beautiful and dreamy scenes anywhere in Indonesia; a large prairie dotted with the eternal edelweiss, a type of flower that only grows on high mountain tops.

Further down, the two volcanoes are surrounded by cloud forests whose canopies are awash with white flowers from the Laurel trees. In the misty and moist environment, moss abounds and so do small streams. The combination of luxuriant moisture and fertile soil usually found at Volcanic slopes certainly creates a rich diversity of flora and fauna and wildlife which will intrigue botanists and researchers no end.

Getting there

The main entrance of the Park at Cibodas is situated about 120 km from Jakarta. It is also accessible from Cipanas and Pacet through Gunung Putri, just east of Cibodas; and from Sukabumi through Selabintana from the south at about 60 km from Bogor. Another entrance is at Situgunung, which can be reached through Cisaat, just west of Sukabumi. From these entrances (except from Situgunung) the trails lead to the summits of Gunung Gede and Pangrango.

  Interesting places to visit

• Blue Lake; a five hectares lake (1.575 asl) located 1.5 km from Cibodas. Its color is always blue under the sun because of blue algae.
• Cibeureum Waterwalls; an amazing waterfall 50 meters in height, located around 2.8 km from Cibodas. A plant similar to Red algae can be found around the waterfall.
• Hot spring; located 5.3 km from Cibodas.
  
  
• Kandang Batu and Kandang Badak, a nice place for camping activities located at 2,220 m above sea level; around 7.8 km from Cibodas.
• Summit and Crater of Mount Gede located at 2,985 m above sea level. From here we can enjoy a wonderful view of sunrise and sunset, an overview of the three cities Cianjur, Sukabumi and Bogor, as well as attractive geology structures and interesting plants around the crater.
• Three active craters in the summit; mainly Lanang Crater, Ratu Crater and Wadon Crater.
• Suryakencana Plain, a beautiful 50 hectares plain covered with Edelweiss flower, located 2,750 m above sea level.
• Putri Mount and Selabintana, a camping place for 100 – 150 persons.

Best time for visit : June – September.

Its peculiar & unique nature also has made Gede Pangrango National Park is a laboratorium nature that attracted many scientists.

There are many homestay/inn and villa with good price located near Gede Pangrango National Park.