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Cangkuang temple,
Cangkuang Temple is 10 kilometers from Tarogong
to the North in the direction to Bandung. To go there, tourists
particularly foreigners took delman (a traditional land transportation
with horse in the front). Beautiful flowers cover the shallow situ.
There is a small island in the middle of the lake, namely Cangkuang
temple. It is the only Hindu temple that ever found in West Java
is the important discovery in the past. Cangkuang has been built
in the period of the first Sundanese Kingdom: Galuh Kingdom. Near
the temple, there are heritage graves from the Moslem follower Arif
Muhammad, who is one of the Mataram Kingdom soldier from Central
Java when attacking the Dutch Colonialist in Batavia (now Jakarta),
at the 17th Century. The ambush failed, he refused to return and
stayed in Cangkuang for teaching and disseminating Islam to the
surrounding community, precisely in Kampung Pulo, where his hereditary
stays until now. In Kampung Pulo, can be found the traditional village,
which contains six houses in a row and face-to-face, three on the
left and three on the right, plus one mosque, which stays only six
families. In the edge of the lake, to reach Cangkuang temple, people
must use traditional transportation made from bamboo, but safe and
comfortable that is called rakit (raft).
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