Last week one of my friend came from Jakarta. He was my classmate back from uni and my flatmate, Jenhan. I was glad that he came up with the idea of going to one of tourist sites in my hometown, Curug Nangka. When he mentioned the place I didn't even know where the heck that was, I've never heard it before, eventhough I was born and am living in Bogor *what a shame that I didn't know this place exist, haha. But later after posting some pics on instagram I found out that I was not the only one not knowing, some of my friends who live in Bogor also didn't know.
The night before, I did browse a little so we wouldn't get lost on the day exploring the place. And surprisingly there were some really useful information about the place *seems that quite a lot of people been there. This Curug Nangka place is actually located in the area of Taman Nasional Gunung Halimun Salak (Mt. Halimun Salak National Park).
Although the area is called Wisata Curug Nangka (curug means waterfall), actually it is not the only waterfall in the area. There are 2 others, Curug Daun and Curug Kawung, so we can see 3 waterfalls inside the national park. The entrance fee is very cheap tho, it only costs 17.500 Rupiahs per person.
Entering the park, you have to walk pass a pine forest. Here Jenhan and I took some pictures while walking. The feeling of taking a stroll surrounded by greneeries and breathing fresh air was really nice.
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| this path looks kinda the same as a watercolor painting i did during high school |
After walking a short distance, you will see some stalls selling food and some signs telling you which direction to go to the waterfalls. We decided to go to Curug Nangka first. To reach Curug Nangka you have to walk in the river, yes, you read it correctly, in the river. It is not along the river because there is no dry path leading to this waterfall. So I suggest that you wear sandals or flip flops to walk in the river because it kinda hurts stepping on the rocks inside the stream *and for me personally it is yucky to step on the rocks covered with moss. So do not wear your favorite pair of comfy fancy sneakers or shoes, well you can but just take it off before going into the stream.
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| the mysterious-looking path leading to Curug Nangka |
The stream was really cool. As you can see from the picture, the water was SUPER CLEAR! And not missing the excitement when you see the mysterious river path leading to the waterfall *it felt like I was in The Jungle Book
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| uber clear water XD i could see my own foot |
The water is almost-knee-depth as shown in the picture below.
Here is some of the pictures (tons actually) we took along the way.
We took our time to appreciate the beauty of nature *and of course to take pictures hehe
And here we arrived at the waterfall, Curug Nangka!!
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| Curug Nangka |
We went on Friday that day so luckily not many people were around, hence we could take so many pictures without having to wait for other people to go or worse get photobombed by strangers in our pictures. It was like having a VIP tour. Yippee! But as we were leaving to go to other waterfalls, we saw tourists coming.
These are few pics with the more tourists coming *you can still appreciate the nature but it is not that nice with some crowd, right?
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| instagram/facebook profile pic worthy "with background" |
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| the waterfall and some tourists (1) |
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| the waterfall and some tourists (2) |
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| i took it *much nicer "without background", right? |
Leaving Curug Nangka, we went to the other waterfalls. The 2 others are located above Curug Nangka, so you have to climb a little to get there.
Here is Curug Daun!
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| Curug Daun |
This waterfall tho not as nice as the previous one. After you had to walk a kinda hard route to get to Curug Nangka and saw it so pretty and hidden, this one was no surprise. As you can see I found only one pic actually worth to post, around Curug Daun there are many food stalls and you can expect the next thing that comes with those, garbage. So many garbage that makes you unable to take pretty pictures of it *not pretty when you see it in real life, too. What a disappointment.
And that was the end of our trip to the national park.
***Wait, was there another waterfall left? Yes, one was left. We were just so turned off by this one that we decided not to go to Curug Kawung and I read that the road to Curug Kawung is quite difficult, slippery and steep. Yet it is not as good as Curug Nangka, so Jenhan and I finished our trip here. It was hot and we were hungry, too.
