Forced city dwellers like me the boundaries, concrete and cars. I am always looking for a quick trip that offers a breath of fresh air, and if I'm lucky, a view also. Sixty kilometers south of Jakarta city limits are a few easy escapes. Take the toll road to Bogor, and you can make a great escape to the country, where spectacular scenery and cool climes expect. It is an oasis of unpredictable weather with 322 towers per year, so plan accordingly. Good place for a weekend is available, but the week are ideal to avoid the traffic.
Puncak means "tip" and stood at 265 meters, Puncak Pass than the popular mountain destination since Dutch colonial times outside Jakarta. We started our clear morning with coffee and proffertjes or donuts in Puncak Pass Resort. Built around 1928, this historic hotel has stunning views and an ideal starting point, or at least, a place to gird a starch with sweets and caffeine.
The walk begins near, Gunung Mas Tea Estate approaching from the rear. This is a downward trek, along tea fields, where workers enormous pastel tube wear hats for protection from the sun and rain. Some workers cut off with knives in heavily gloved hands held to collect tea leaves in an attached plastic container. If this was filled thrown into larger bags. Other workers treated a hedge trimmer similar machine that leaves cut out of the bushes and she sucked in a strong bag. The ladies giggled and waved to us how they pulled this burgeoning bags to central collection.
Scarlet-leafed cinnamon trees adjacent many fields, grow tall and trim. Ginger sprout also along the route as fiery, peppered sculptures. Trotting through the terraced property, incurred an eternal perspective beckoning to break for a breather and water. Also stopped plantation workers and stood on the abyss, enchanted by the sloping foothills, in the misty distance faded.
Parasails often stand out from a tip side perch near, give a bird's eye view on this emerald expanse and seemingly, for hikers, like giant birds themselves. The parasails whirled and whirled, floated and then slid to the land base where the tandem teams touched down.
At the end of the track, stopping in an outdoor cafe for a cup of tea. Perkebunan Teh Gunung Mas or Golden Mountain tea plantation producing B-class products, mainly for export. The cafes offer two dozen kinds of tea of black currant on green lemon, but only a few food choices. As we wrap our hike that came plit plat of rain finished, and it felt good to a warm cup of cold fingers. This slope-hugging movements logged at eight, easy-going kilometers. Not a wanderer? Guests are invited to walk among the tea terraces or is a guide for a small fee.
Another great escape is Sentul Hills, on the toll road to the marked output. This hike turns the dizzying weekend slowly over gos the narrow city street. There are many walks through the hills and local leaders, as our escort Encep or Id Guides, allow hikers in the field take it easy. Paths connect the country, crossing streams, sparkling and splashing over slippery rocks. Bamboo bridges provide a springy way over Water rushing. Up and down you go, see, so that paved smooth spots on rocks marks in wet weather.
Jungle Tracks broke in open areas with green views over rice fields. Stooping, people put nursery plants in the mud or hit stalks grain free to knock. Streams gurgled or bamboo irrigation pipes leaked to saturate the stepped fields. The scenes are timeless.
Make a weekend hike in the hills. A variety of possible accommodation, from hotels to bungalows with hot springs in Sentul, are available. Sir Stamford Raffles described Bogor as "a romantic small village", and although the city has grown, remain its charms. If the need takes to breathe deeply, the simple effort of walking relieves tension, like keeping a fiddlehead fern, leisurely its frond unwinding. They are at ease and one with the landscape.
Martine Casa Grande, 360 ° life wealth coach who has traveled there for years, said it best, "I murmur the lack of and feel the lack of individual responsibility and stress. I feel the essence of the forest and the human world, nor in time with a seemingly forgotten drum moves. I do not only in the stunning scenery, but also the relaxed and modest nature of humanity. For this short time, I am also a part of nature and humans that belong there "
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