" WELCOME TO BANDUNG ": Garut

Garut Region located in South of West Java Province with coordinate 6º56'49'' - 7 º45'00'' South and 107º25'8'' - 108º7'30'' East. Garut regions have administrative 306.519 Ha (3.065,19 km²) with the border as belows :

North	: Bandung and Sumedang region
East	: Tasikmalaya
South	: Samudera Indonesia Ocean
West	: Bandung and Cianjur

Garut geografic is near with Bandung the capital city of West Java, and as Satelite city and hitterland for Bandung Raya. There fore Garut region is strategic for to support Bandung as Capital City

Garut that can be reached by car for around 2 hours or about 90 kilometers. is region around Bandung that offers many interesting places.
Cipanas a hot water spring is one of good locations to refresh the body and to relax. In Garut you can also see an old temple that is a left over from Hindu Kingdom namely candi"Cangkuang": Exceptionally to reach this temple, visitor should get on top of raft because it is located in the middle of a lake. Still around Garut, visitors can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Gunung Papandayan crater which is still an active volcano.You can reach this place by easily climbing it. if you want to see Gunung Galunggung, then you will have to climb 600 stairs to reach it.

Papandayan volcano

Volcano type	: stratovolcano

Location	: Java, Indonesia, 7.32°S / 107.73°E

Summit elevation	: 2665 m (8,743 ft.)

Last eruptions	: 1772 (moderate eruption followed by a devastating debris avalanche), 1923, : 1942, 2002

Typical eruption style	: Explosive. At present strong fumarolic activity.

Background

Papandayan is a complex stratovolcano with four large summit craters, the youngest of which was breached to the NE by collapse during a brief eruption in 1772 and contains active fumarole fields. The broad 1.1-km-wide, flat-floored Alun-Alun crater truncates the summit of Papandayan, and Gunung Puntang to the north gives the volcano a twin-peaked appearance. Several episodes of collapse have given the volcano an irregular profile and produced debris avalanches that have impacted lowland areas beyond the volcano. A sulfur-encrusted fumarole field occupies historically active Kawah Mas ("Golden Crater").

After its first historical eruption in 1772, in which collapse of the NE flank produced a catastrophic debris avalanche that destroyed 40 villages and killed nearly 3000 persons, only small phreatic eruptions had occurred prior to an explosive eruption that began in November 2002.