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/)
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Pic.2 The Shelter nearby Geothermal Site
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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October 31, 2009
Tags: Chevron Geothermal, Cianten, Taman Nasional Gunung Salak-Halimun Posted in: Trails, West Java
2 Responses
Hello
My name is Greg and I’m from England and am moving to Bogor in Auguast 2010. I used to race road bikes, time trials long distance races. I see that you are into mountain bikes, which I’ve never used before. Do you have anyone that does road bike racing ? I really miss racing as bikes are a real passion to me. If there is no road bikes then I’d be interested in getting on a mountain bike, as I really want to takle Mount Salak haha.
many thanks
Greg Morgan
Hi Greg…there are numerous Roadies communities in Jakarta… you can start finding them over here, b2w-indonesia.or.id.
Usually every weekend you can find a lot of cycling enthusiast ride their bikes (folding bike, road bike, mountain bike, hybrid bike) on Bogor to Puncak Pass road… it’s a challenging uphill road track…find them over here 1pdn.multiply.com. 1pdn means “uphill track lovers society”. Those people hates downhill for sure, they only made for uphill road.
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