Cianten-The Ride (Part 1)

On a sunny morning in late October, a new journey is about to begin…
I and Kunto will meet an invitation from CikarangMTB cycling community for mountain biking activity in Cianten tea plantation area. Cycling path in Cianten Tea Plantation is the name was new to the ears of the mountain cyclists in the Greater Jakarta area surrounding areas. Cianten tea plantation is located in West Java province area, located 35 km west of the city of Bogor. To know in detail how to achieve Cianten Tea Plantation area, you can read my previous article .

We use Kunto’s car to reach Leuwiliang region through Parung region. After about ninety minutes to travel by car, we finally arrived at the front office Karacak hydropower. Not more than thirty minutes later, the team arrived at the scene CikarangMTB. Members of the CikarangMTB team who participated in this activity is about 25 adult men. After warming up the body and checking the bike, we started to put our bikes into our public transport rent . The distance that must be taken to reach the region Cianten Tea Plantation, is about 15 km and will take approximately 45 minutes to 60 minutes.

After arriving at the nearest stop located on the most north side of the tea plantation area of Cianten, we immediately offload our bikes from our public transportation lease. This activity takes about thirty minutes. After a short briefing from our team leader then we started the journey at 11 o’clock noon.

Pic.1 Team Photo-CikarangMTB & Sacyc team member

First Stage of the journey today starts with a paved road climb which varies with the road pavement plantation. Although the rise of the through long enough, which is about 7-8 km, cyclists can enjoy the fresh mountain areas. And certainly you can enjoy the majestic scenery. On the right side and left the road, we can enjoy Cianten tea plantations. In the distance we can also see the boundary of tea plantations area with Mt. Halimun-Mt Salak National Park which is managed by the Indonesian government (http://www.tnhalimun.go.id/)

Pic.2 The Shelter nearby Geothermal Site

After pedaling through the rise and the beautiful plantations for about 35-45 minutes, our group arrived at a small shelter near the area of geothermal operations are managed by Chevron Geothermal Indonesia. Here we take a break, enjoying our drinking water. We can find a wellhead of Geothermal well nearby the shelter. From here we can enjoy the view of Mount Salak / Parakan Salak clearly. Taking your personal photo at this location is a must.

Pic.3 Beautiful Mt. Salak Scenery

At last, the first stage of the ride today already done. After arrived in the second Geothermal site (second shelter), we started to enter dirt road which will guide us to to a small forest on the foothill. First stage passed, and overall it’s a 7-8 km ride on the hard pack ascending road for around 60-70 minutes. This is really a good warm up activity boys…

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