Kawah Putih Lake


Patuha mountain, approximately 2300 m above sea level, the southern city save a mystery in the past. Mount Patuha community considers the area that is terrible, they are considered the peak of Mount Patuha first is the meeting place of the ancestors and gains. No one shall dare to visit. In fact, because its ghostlike, birds that pass crater will be dead. However, the mystery that has become a down - generations after it began to disappear revealed by a Dutch scientist, Dr. Franz Wilhelm Junghun, who is also a Dutch planter who loves nature preservation in the year 1837.

When Junghun to travel to Mount Patuha, he had to ask local people about the natural environment fell very serene and quiet it. But he was getting a strange fell, he got answers that the area is haunted as the kingdom of the jin and the spirit of the ancestors place. Mountain valley Patuha conditions at that time still a dense forest, tree-lined type of local wood, such as Rasamala, Saninten, hurly, samida, and others.

Because its taste and he didn’t believe it, Junghun continue to penetrate Patuha forest. And finally he found a crater lake that looks very exotic, and very beautiful. Although discovered in 1837, but this area into a new object after the tour in 1987 developed by Perhutani PT (Persero) Unit III West Java and Banten.
Haunted? Really so? To prove its for your own need to come to tour the area this white crater. And after entering the crater area is white, not the fear that you will be natural, but you will be glued so watch yourself and see how wonderfully water with a white puff of smoke above. Water color in the crater lake of white is not always white; white is the color of craters found at the most visited, sometimes the water is green apple and bluish-blazing sun when the weather and light, sometimes also brown milk.

The less fun in this area is the smell of sulfur that can cause some people cough - cough because its smell kiss, not even far from the tourist areas there is a cauldron of white artificial cave deep as 5 meters that he had first made as sulfur mine. When you go through the cave you will smell the sulfur smell is sting. Because the sulfur contents are very high that, at the first time the factory was built with the name of sulfur Zwavel Ontgining White crater. In the era of Japan, the business continued with the name White crater Kenxaka Gokoya Ciwidey which is under the direct control of the military.



Travel to the area this tour we will see scenic valley that is very captivating and strawberry gardens prepared for the tourists to cite their own strawberry fruit which you want to buy. Landscape offered along the way to White crater is stunning. Carpet Caster Mountains and valleys is very refreshing after the tired eyes by routine work.

After paying for the car Rp.5000 retributions and Rp7, 500 per person at the main gate, still have to travel resumed approximately 15 minutes by car to reach the car park near the White crater object. In fact visitors can also park the car in the parking lot near the main gate and use the minibus provided by the manager. At the main gate area is also available lodging facilities and restaurants.


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