Assalamualaikum..
Dear Everybody,
Let
me introduce my self before, my full name is Dhea Anandha Aulia, but you can
call me Dhea or Dheandha. Today when I am studying on the sixth floor of
analyst building in my beloved campus, Politeknik Kesehatan Jakarta 3, I see a
beautiful object on my right side. I see a landscape with pretty blue sky and
green trees. Whenever I remember a view with blue sky and green trees, I can
only remember one thing, my hometown.
My
brain starts to fantasize, as if the view that I am seeing now is my hometown.
There are many special things about my hometown that I remember.
So
I want introduce you about my hometown..
It
is located in a small village called Tegal Laja, Babakan Karet Village, Cianjur
District, Cianjur Regency, West Java. If you curious to see the view, it will
be like this.
There lays several mountains like Gede Mount, Pangrango Mount, Sanghyang Tapak Mount, and Malang Mount. No wonder the wheather is very cold. Especially with the clean and clear water which comes directly from the mountains. That is why many tourists choose to come to Cianjur visiting mountains for recreations, and enjoying the most beautiful landscape.
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TOURS
Moreover, there are also some tourist attractions located near my hometown such as Cipanas Tourism Park, Cirata Reservoir, Cibodas Botanical Garden, Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, Telaga Biru, Cibeureum Waterfall, Curug Citambur, Curug Batu Lempar, Sukanagara South Cianjur, and many more. There are all are ‘the must visiting’ places. On this blog, I will share some moments when my big family and I visited those places.
Besides, behind my grandmother's house there are a river called Ciseeng River. The river starts from two mountains are Salak Mount and Sanghyang Tapak Mount, and ends at Cirata Reservoir. The length of the river is approximately 40 km. Due to the clean water, local residents usually use the river for their daily needs such as washing, bathing while swimming, and many more.
Cianjur is famous with it’s wide agricultural land. That is why the average people there are farmers. To be honest, my grandmother is also a farmer who owns her own rice field, so that she can produce rice from her rice field. Almost everyday in the morning, afternoon, and evening, she comes to her rice field from her house, which take about 3 km from the village, to plant paddy seeds in order to raise good quality rice which is ready to be marketed to local people.
CULINARY
Above all, I also want to introduce local culinaries in cianjur, like:
1. Geco (Tauge and Tauco)
It is made from boiled soybean seeds, mashed and stirred with flour and then let the alone until mushrooms grow (fermentation).
The process to ferment
tauco is by soaking it in salt water, letting it dry in the sunshine for
several weeks until it’s spesific tauco aroma comes out or when the marinade
turns reddish brown.
2. Asinan Cianjur and Manisan Cianjur
Asinan cianjur made from various pickled fruits like manggo, salak, pineapple, nutmeg, mirage, papaya, yam, cucumber, and others. The taste of pickles are sour and spicy yet makes you addicted.
Not like any other
sweets in different places, in Cianjur candied fruits are placed into a row of
huge glass jars and become a very appealing decoration.
When you are in
Cianjur, through the streets you will find stores selling various tasty unique
pretty colourful pickles and sweets, whatever it is will make you curious to
try.
3. Mochi
Mochi is a kind of common and typical food or snacks in Cianjur. Dont be amazed, along the streets heading the city there are many stores selling different types of mochi with various fillings. Mochi is made from smashed glutinous rice flour or rice flour, formed into small balls in order to be easy to eat, then filled with various tastes. They are usually original taste, green bean, red bean, sesame, pandanus, durian, strawberry, mocca, chocolate, milk, cheese and more. Therefore, mochi has become one of the most best selling Cianjur culinary in the market for it’s delicious taste and liked by many people in Indonesia.
CULTURE
Furthermore, Cianjur has also many souvenirs which are the product from Cianjur cultural craft, such as:
a. Gentur Latern
Gentur Latern, made from brass and coloured glass with an artistic design, is one of the famous craft in Warungkondang District. Sanggar Bambu Kursi and artistic table is made from bamboo by artisans in Cianjur City. This bamboo chair is suitable for installation in the dugout. This bamboo studio was awarded upakarti in 1992.
b. Ceramic handicraft
Ceramic handicraft located in Ciranjang District managed in one production center and one business unit by five craftmen.
c. Lute miniature
Lute miniature is from metal wood made in accordance with the original. This musical instrument is commonly used accompanying Cianjuran songs including various other Sundanese songs.
d. Bird’s Cage
A handicraft with a productive economic value located in Karangtengah Subdistrict. This craft once won upakarti award in 1994.
e. Ngaos
Ngaos is a reciting tradition held in Cianjur
Cianjur has been known as one of the city of santri (student in muslim school). And one of the inherent tradition there is ngaos. Ngaos is a tradition that colouring the religious life in the community.
f. Mamaos
Mamaos is a cultural art that reflect good character and sense become the binder of relationship and kinship in social life. Mamaos can also means reading. That is reading (contemplate) all God’s creations, reading (contemplate) the relationship between man and man, man with nature, between creature and other creature made by Allah the Al Khaaliqu.
g. Maenpo (Typical Cianjur Martial Art)
