Entered the Wisata Cibulan Garden region in the Kuningan Regency, West Java (West Java), the person will be welcomed with the atmosphere of typical peace the rural region.
The place that was calm under the auspices of shady trees and cool air, made whoever visited feel peaceful and peaceful.
The wind blew the semi-winch, brought gemerisik the voice of the leaves that rubbed against each other from the density of luxuriant trees beside the garden.
The voice, and the voice kecipak water in two big ponds have the shape of persegi long seemed to become the only voice that canned be heard in the place.
His scenery then was not inferior miraculous.
From time to time, guguran the leaves that have turned yellow were blown the wind and was scattered in the surface of coloured pond water green, reflected the trees shadow.
And under the surface of clear water, dozens of fish were grey blackness swam here and there.
So the fish kancra bodas (Cyprinus carpio), that dikeramatkan by the local community with the Dewa Fish term.
All the scenery increasingly made itself like found the liberation.
Especially for them who each day were forced to take medicine with noise and city routine.
Of course, all the atmospheres and the scenery could be only obtained at the time of Cibulan quiet the visitor, that is on work days, that-unfortunately-very small his possibility could be enjoyed by the commoner, except for they took the leave.
Because on holiday days, especially during the Lebaran public holiday, the visitor could explode until 3,000 people per the day, were crowded in the garden that only measured the area around two hectare.
The Cibulan TOURIST ATTRACTION was located in the Manis Kidul Village, Kecamatan Jalaksana, Kabupaten Kuningan, West Java, around 28 kilometre next south the Cirebon City or 7 kilometre in north the City of Kabupaten Kuningan.
The location of Cibulan ponds was located 300 metre entered to the west from the Cirebon-Kuningan Highway.
The wide entry road has been asphalted.
Although still was rough, has been comfortable enough to be passed by motor vehicles.
The public’s transport headed one of the aims of the mainstay tour in this Kuningan Regency also really was easy to be obtained.
From Cirebon, the visitor could get a lift in the Elf car of the transport of the kind public, by the tarif only revolving Rp 2.000-Rp 2,500
Cibulan was one of the eldest tourist attractions in Kuningan.
This place was declared as the place of recreation the first time on Sunday, on August 27 1939, by Kuningan Regent at that time, RAA Mohamad Achmad.
Inside was gotten two big ponds have the shape of persegi long.
The first pond have a length of 35 metre and wide 15 metre with the depth of water around 2 metre.
The second pond measuring 45 x 15 square metre that was shared to two parts.
The first part with the depth of water 60 centimetre and the second part with the depth of water around 120 sentimeter
Although all those were occupied by dozens of fish kancra bodas various measurements, from that for the length of the 20 ‘s centimetre to almost 1 metre, ponds were in Cibulan opened as the pond of the public’s bathing place.
The place of the recreation was supplemented with typical facilities the place of the bathing place, like the place of the substitute for clothes, the place rinsed, and the bathroom/WC. “Kami provided 30 dressing rooms, 6 toilets, and 2 bathrooms for the place rinsed after swimming in the pond,” said the Management of the Manager the Cibulan Tourist Attraction, Sulaeman NS Slamet
Cibulan was one of the four places of similar recreation in Kuningan.
Three other places were the Linggarjati Pond in the Linggarjati Indah Garden complex, Kecamatan Cilimus; the Cigugur Pond, in the Cigugur Subdistrict; and the Darma Loka Pond in the Darma Subdistrict.
All of them had ponds that were occupied by the shrine fish kancra bodas, but only Cibulan that was made use of as the public’s swimming pool.
The other expertise that was owned by Cibulan was the existence of seven springs that dikeramatkan was named the Sumur Tujuh Shrine in the west corner of this tourist attraction.
Seven springs had the shape of the small ponds named the Kejayaan Well, Sumur Kemulyaan, Sumur Pangabulan, Sumur Cirancana, Sumur Cisadane, Sumur Kemudahan, and the Keselamatan Well.
Seven springs were located over one petilasan the Prabu Siliwangi shrine the stone composition like the stone menhir and two statues of the stripes tiger, the symbol of the greatness of this King Agung Pajajaran.
According to the Resident, petilasan this often was visited by the person, especially on Thursday night Kliwon or for the Maulud month in the Hijriah calendar.
They berziarah and requested the success in his life.
“For that believed, water in seven shrine wells brought the blessing and could grant their request, Several senior officials of the country often came to this place,” he said
Seven shrine wells continued to issue clean water, clear, and cool, despite in the long dry season like this year.
Sulaeman said, water in Cibulan always overflowed, both in the rain season and dry.
That was the reason, apart from as the place of recreation, Cibulan was also made the source of water for the Daerah Company of the Drinking Water (PDAM) Kuningan and was made use of by Pertamina to supply the requirement for clean water in his two property complexes, that is the Ciperna Golf Course in the Cirebon City, and the Daerah Office of the Operation of Hulu Java Bagian Barat (DOH JBB) in Klayan, Kabupaten Cirebon.
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