How are you Community friend, I hope you are healthy and happy. Thank you @tattoodjay as the hosting wednesday walk. On this occasion I will shere the experience of walking in the Nature reserve for Pangandaran beach.
This place is located at the end of the beach, at an altitude of about 3 meters a bove the sea. This area has an area of about 530 hectares, is a primary and secondary forest.
This place there are flora and fauna, animals such as monkeys,monitor lizards, kidang, and other. Flora and various plants such as kaban trees, kisegel trees, merong and other plants.
Every visitor who wants to enter this nature must buy a ticket for 15.000,- thousand rupiah one person. In this nature reserve area, walk around the area with cool air.
Even though this place is on the beach, because there are many lush trees. We don't all walk on fores, we only explore on foot there area, there are several objects that can see.
Such as Natural Cave, artificial caves, historical site relich, to see the object that are in this should be assisted with a guide in order to get on explanation of the objects that are here.
It will also save more time on fort by cutting the direction of the path, if you enter this Nature serve accompained by officers, we will not get lost and understand the story of the objects seen here.
Such as on object of a historical site that in hundreds of years old. This site is called Batu Kalde, this site is religious building structure according to the Hindu story.
This place used to be around the temple structure as a place of worship for Hindus. Stone blockes are still buried and some are Scaltered, still visible remains of stone blocks and also a temple statue called Batu Kalde of Gumarang cow measuring 1x1 meter.
The flour plan of the building that used to stand with a square shape maesuring 12x12 square meter. The walk continues to see natural cave, the natural cave are for made by nature, because on the left and righ are ditectly adjacent to the see.
These calls are shapped by the power of sea water for hundreds of years old. The local call it the Kaparat caves or sacred cave. The natural stage cave, the natural Kaparat caves is on old rock that forms various shapes.
The Kaparat cave used to be a place to meditake,at the entrance of the there are two tomb, according to the story this tombs was once a spreader of Islam. There are some rocks that almost resemble the shape of the genitals.
These are rocks that resemble things ,and other shapes then the walk continues to see the natural cave, the community calls it the stage cave. This natural cave is still in unity with other natural caves.
Only the location of the entrance is different, this cave is stalaglite rock, lime stone, its position is bordered by sea water. Sea water some times enters this cave.
Why is it called a natural still cave, indeed this cave is like a stage,with natural stairs to beach upper umpak, this place is usually a place to meditate ,and to pray.
Thank you very much.