Goa gudawang - a Cave near Bogor, Indonesia -

Have you ever visited Bogor at West Java, Indonesia? If you have visited it, may be you know so much about tourism object there. But, have you known about Goa Gudawang? Let me tell you about it..

Goa Gudawang is a cave ( in Indonesia, cave is "goa" or "gua"). It is located approximately 1 hour from Darmaga, Bogor, Indonesia. I have ever visited it, some years ago, with my team -Diaspora PMK Bogor Agricultural University-. If you start from Darmaga, you can go there by using public transportation named "Angkot"  for the destination: Jasinga-Leuwiliang. You will enter Leuwiliang area, and after you see many palm plantation, you will arrive at Cigudeg village. There is a crossroad, and please take the right way, not the straight one. there, you can use other public transportation, just tell people overthere that you want to go to Goa Gudawang.. You arrive at this place when you see this gate.

It looks like a silent place. ya, that's true. From that gate, you can walk after you come to the second gate. There are some cave. but, i forget how much it is. When I went there, I just entered two cave. First, i came to the left cave. It is short enough. As usual, this cave was dark and slippery, you have to be careful. Secondly, I came to the right cave. To reach this cave, we will walk down trough some stairway..
It is nature condition of this cave..

 Plants overthere is green and so fresh to look. 
Then, It is frontside of the cave.. 

It is wonderful place i think, how about you?
oh yeah, i have to introduce you that man. He is my brother in my community, i call him my angel brother, named Afryan L. Saragih.
Ok, back to the topic,, when we entered this cave, we have to brave, and walk carefully. If you are not sure to do that, please wait infront of it. but, i recommend you to enter because the adventure you will get is so precious and unforgetable.


First, you better put your shoes outside. When you come in, you have to bring torch, or something else that help you see in the dark. Walk carefully because sometimes you need to bend over because of low ceiling or because of bats attack. When there are bats, it's better to stop walking, silent and then you continue to walk after the bats go. Sometimes the path is uphill, so you have to help one another to avoid falling out, because the stone was so sharp. 
If you are lucky, you will meet beautiful white shiny stone there,. This is the picture.

It is so beautiful, isn't it? It looks like a sparkler.. The guide said that this is formed from water that froozen naturally because of the condition of the cave. it formed drops by drops of water so it looks like dropping honey. Do you want to see it? Just come in.. :D

One adventourous experience we got at that time was when the water stream in this cave increase and faster. the guide said that we have to come back to the front of the cave, because it will be flood inside the cave. When the flood happen, all of hole inside the cave will filled by water. So we walk rapidly to the front of the cave..

it is so relieved when all of us can reach fresh air outside the cave, and know that we safe then. After that, we backhome to Darmaga, Bogor.. This is the end of our trip to Goa Gudawang..