Mount
Tangkuban Perahu
When seen from Bandung, Mt. Tangkuban Perahu has a distinctive shape, like an upside down boat.
angkuban Perahu is a volcano with three craters into which areas tourists can walk through. These three craters are: Kawah Ratu ("Queen Crater"), Kawah Domas ("Domas Crater"), and Kawah Upas ("Upas Crater")
Tourists can
go down into the Domas Crater where exist many hot geysers in which they can
boil eggs. Though the mountain appears peaceful, mild eruptions occurred in
1969, when Kawah Ratu spewed ash and barrages 500 m high. As recently as
September 1992 it was closed to the public for a few days because unusually
high seismic activity leads volcanologist to fear a new eruption. On the
mountain's northern flank is an area called Death Valley, so named for its
frequent accumulation of poisonous gases.
Kawah Ratu, which means "Queen's Crater", is
today just a big gray hole which sometimes has a pool of water at its center.
Poisonous gases sometimes accumulate in Kawah Ratu, thus making it somewhat of
a risk to descend to the crater floor. Beyond the saddled shaped depression on
the far side of Kawah Ratu is the still active Kawah Upas, the oldest crater on
the mountain. On the very far western cliff you see a spot where all vegetation
has been destroyed by constantly rising sulphurous vapors. On the crater walls,
note the various layers of material consisting of rock, sand, and pebbles.
Overtime, new craters have formed again and again in a rather consistent shift
from west to east. The most well known of these is the Domas crater, but also
there are other smaller ones in jungle on the mountain's northeastern flank.
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