There is a Cangkuang temple situated by Cangkuang Lake, which was a major, This interesting place lies in the border of the Bandung and Garut regencies (LC)

Bamboo Raft


Dating back to Java's Hindu periode, the Cangkuang Temple is one of West Java's oldest monuments. Beautifully situated near Leles north of Garut, Cangkuang is a magical visit back to old Sundanese roots.

From Bandung and back this outing takes five to six hours. A bamboo raft glides across a small lake overgrown with water lilies to the temple located on a peninsula. 

 On the other side a flight of stairs leads through a grove of big old trees to the temple located on the hilltop. 

Cangkuang is the old preserved building in West Java. Estimate of when it was built vary between the seventh and tenth century A.D, during the time of the Sunda kingdom of Galuh, remains of which can bee seen at Karang Kamulyaan. 

 Dutch Archeological Service first reported the collapsed remains of the temple in 1914, but not until the 60's was the site more closely investigated. 

The temple door faces the rising sun. Inside is a statue of Siva sitting on a cow, leading one to believe that the temple was devoted to Siva during Java's Hindu era. 

Prior to reconstruction, the site was a place of worship and pilgrims often came here to lift one of the stones to obtain good luck. Article 

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Cangkuang Temple


Cangkuang Temple is 10 kilometers from Tarogong to the North in the direction to Bandung.

To go there, tourists particularly foreigners took delman (a traditional land transportation with horse in the front). Beautiful flowers cover the shallow situ. 

There is a small island in the middle of the lake, namely Cangkuang temple. It is the only Hindu temple that ever found in West Java is the important discovery in the past. 

Cangkuang has been built in the period of the first Sundanese Kingdom: Galuh Kingdom. Near the temple, there are heritage graves from the Moslem follower Arif Muhammad, who is one of the Mataram Kingdom soldier from Central Java when attacking the Dutch Colonialist in Batavia (now Jakarta), at the 17th Century. 

The ambush failed, he refused to return and stayed in Cangkuang for teaching and disseminating Islam to the surrounding community, precisely in Kampung Pulo, where his hereditary stays until now. 

In Kampung Pulo, can be found the traditional village, which contains six houses in a row and face-to-face, three on the left and three on the right, plus one mosque, which stays only six families. 

In the edge of the lake, to reach Cangkuang temple, people must use traditional transportation made from bamboo, but safe and comfortable that is called rakit (raft). 

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