Most Beautiful Lake in Bandung : Situ Patenggang

Patenggang : Beautiful Lake in between mountain and tea garden

Bandung is not only famous as a shopping tour place with rows Clothing Factory Outlet and rich of cullinary creativity. This Flower City can also be enjoyed from the naturalness of the beautiful landscape with a variety of options.

However, because Bandung is located in the middle of the mountains, be prepared to travel 'rather heavy' into areas far beyond the outskirts of town if you want to enjoy its natural attractions. Understandably, the tourist attractions in the mountainous region of the exotic that generally do have a pretty winding through the streets, go up and down, sometimes steep, and seemed far away.

But, when it reached the destination, travel fatigue that will pay off with a stunning natural scenery and stunning. One of the tourism object is most popular lake : Situ Patenggang. This beautiful lake is situated at an altitude of the mountain almost in the middle stretch of the tea garden that surrounds it. The landscape here is amazing.



Situ Patenggang is a natural lake located in the most northern region Ciwidey --another small city at south of Bandung. The location is still included in the tea plantation area Ranca Bali. So that, in around the lake we can enjoy the green expanse of tea plantations and cool fresh tube. There is a fascination with its own view of the lake expanse of blue water that spread wide, in the middle of this mountain Ciwidey.

It is about 47 Km from the city of Bandung. On the edge of the lake there are many boats that can be rented to tourists around the lake. To rent a boat around the lake should you do first a bargain price. Usually offered price ranges from Rp 10,000 - Rp. 15,000 / person (similar 2 USD).

With this boat, visitors are taken around the lake and stop in the middle of the island where there is a big love stone. According to a legend it is said the island become meeting place for a couple lover that have long separated. Patenggang / patengan in Sundanese language means to find each other.

If you want to visit this place should depart from early morning so you can arrive at noon. Because if left late, and you arrive in the afternoon the fog had come down normally. The fog is dense in Situ Patenggang so the visibilility be only 1-2 meter so we can't see anything fine scenery.