Pleasure excursion - Tangkuban perahu.

I have gone few places for picnics in India, but this one is special in many ways. The foremost thing is this one was not in India.. its in Indonesia. Taking out from the busy onsite sechdule, i m pening down by few expereince on this tirp.

We started for Tangkuban perahu, a volcano here.

We hired a car for this place. We knew the language could be the problem and so confirmed from one of my frined weather or not the driver knows english. And alas, we gota 70 year old man as driver and he could understand to no degree the language "English", well the driver was instructed by his boss with the place where we need to go. But we had plan to visit 2 sights, we were not sure which 1 the driver is planning for us first. We tried to communicate wid him but in vain. Only things in language we could know were satu, duaa, tiga.. 1,2,3 in the bhasha here. Indeed we were sure that this one is Ram Bharose picnic. The day was amazing , Sun hardly comes out here. we started for the place from Bhandung (3 hours from jakarta) , The moment we hit the highway, we were straight in the black clouds, the air had fragnance of romance in it. It was showering.. with cool breeze on. somtimes we could hear the thunder as well. We began to enjoy but wid curious faces, where the hell this guy is taking us ?
Finally we arrived at the toll stop. We din waste a chance to grab the toll guy (not tall but, average height here is juz 5.4 for mens) and confirm with him where we were goin..

We were goin to the volcano. we reached the place after couple of hours and had a lot of fun there, we bought eggs on the way, the hot sulphur water coming out of the volcano can boil eggs as well. I being the only non vegitarian that day, was the only one experimenting to eat on the boiled eggs. Our guide there wrap the eggs in a polythine bag and with a help of plastic rope, slided the bag inside the boiling sulphur water, and in mere 10 mins the egges were boiled.

Our guide showed us by blowing a live cigerate how can he make a bulk of magnitude of the steam coming out of the volcano drift. We thanked "Terimakasi" our guide for the show. He replied back "sama sama".

Soon a flok of "Chantik" beautiful girls gathered there. People here know only 2 perosnalites from India, 1st Mahatma Gandhi and 2nd Shahrukh khan. And the young crowd obivously is a big fan on Shahruk khan, Hats of to you SRK. And the most famous movie here is Kuch Kuch hota hai. The T.V. channels here show the bolloywood movie dubbed in the local langauge - Bhasha Indonesia here. The time they saw us they began to shout Kuch kuch hota hai. It was fun with them then and we had a memorable snap too.

Next we headed towards our second sight seeing of the day, the hot spring water resort. Saurabh and i enjoyed the natural warm, rather hot spring water fall. And yes.. the whole warm water was the result of natural sulphur spring water. Jaipal was there to click many snaps of us. The bad part was the warm water was of sulphur and its dangerous if its gets inside your body. And i think Saurabh gulped it down. We finally left the place to go back and in the car, saurabh was not feeling well enough. We knew 1 more word here .. "Sini" means here.. and somehow we asked our driver to stop the car right there for us to relax some time.

At last we had a memorable trip, somthing to be remembered for life time. It was nice company with Saurabh and Jaipal to the wonderful nature's place.