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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Lake Cirata - The Floating Fish Pond

A view of freshwater big area surrounded by the mountain is one of my favorite place. Indonesia has many destination place like this, from a natural lake that occur because of volcanoes and artificial lake that made for reservoir.

Lake Cirata or Reservoir Cirata located in Ciranjang Cianjur, West Java, is a potential hydropower dam. In addition, Cirata also used for fish farming using floating fish pond. Basicly, this floating fish pond made to produce economical fish, Lake or Reservoir for fish farming. But in Cirata, we can see that floating fish pond also can be use as floating restaurant.

Lake Cirata
Many local tourist who visit Cirata will enjoying the beautiful scenery with a fisherman's boat that can load 10 passengers. You can ride it from Jangari - a small port in Cirata - with a small fee around 10 thousand rupiah per person. Or you can charter it by paying 100 thousand rupiah for 1 to 2 hours trip. During the cruise, the owner of boat will offering you to visit a floating reastaurant with grilled fish or Ikan Bakar as the main menu.
That's the fascinating of the trip to reservoir like Cirata. You can eat in the middle of lake while enjoying the scenery. Or you can enjoying the scenery while you fish.
Map of above picture:

Direction to this place:
  1. Jakarta - Jagorawi Tol Road - Puncak - Cianjur - Jangari - Cirata
  2. Jakarta - Cikampek Tol Road - Sadang - Purwakarta - Plered - Cirata
  3. Bandung - Padalarang - Ciranjang - Jangari - Cirata

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