 |
| scattered stone compared to Puma Punku ruins |
 |
| map courtesy of Kompas |
My trip to survey Wardes (Village Net Cafe) @Cibeber near Gunung Padang leads me to visit this site out of couriousity on its ancient mystery.
 |
| driving thru tea plantations |
According to some
records, the first mention of Gunung Padang is from a Dutch report “Rapportern
van de oudheid-kundigne Dienst (ROD) dated back 1914 by N.J. Krom, a Dutch
historian which found this site covered with bush, similar to the discovery of
Borobudur by Sir Thomas
Stamford Raffles in 1814 (English occupation of Jawa island)[1].
Borobudur at that time was also covered by land and bush since it was burried
due to Mount Merapi eruption. Looking at the sourrounding full with tea
plantation. The Dutch colonials first established tea plantations around the
mountains in the eighteenth century, and a road was constructed to connect the plantation
area to the capital (180 km or 112 miles to the northwest from Batavia to
Paris van Java, nickname for the provincial capital of West Jawa, Bandung.
Then in 1979, three villagers Soma, Abidin and Endi report
to the Local Office of Culture and Educations about their finding of thousands
of piles scattered in an hill, later called Gunung Gajah. From this moment, the
situs became known and registered as historical megalithic site and people visited the site.
 |
| village@bottom of pyramid |
Since March
2011 Ancient Catastrophic Research Team formed by the Special Presidential
Staff SB Yudhoyono studied the active
earthquake fault stretching from Pelabuhan Ratu to Padalarang regency city and
passing thru Gunung Padang. When the team studied the land structured
underneath the site, they found no magma intrusion, then the team continued
with the underneath complete land survey using geophysics methods such as geo
electric, radar, magnet in the Gunung Padang sourrounding.
 |
| entrance step to site |
The finding
confirmed that this mountain is
prehistorical man-made, not nature (November 2011 team lead by Dr Danny
Hilman and received appreciation by Prof. Dr Oppenheimer.[2]
From Carbon
dating, C14 at Beta Miami Laboratorium, Florida, US found that the carbon found
from the 5 meter to 12 meter drilling aged 14.500-25.000 years old, so it is
much older than Piramid Giza in Egypt.
 |
| steeper step@chichen itza, mexico |
Confirmed by LSC C14 Carbon dating by Laboratium Batan, Indonesia using material paleosoil sample from 4 meter deep at the drill location found the age is 5,500 +/- 130 years.
 |
| well@entrance Gunung Padang |
Location on the material
8 m to 10 meter deeps show carbon dated as far as 11,000 + 150 years.
Gunung
Padang located 45 km from Cianjur town, between road connecting Cianjur to
Sukabumi near district town Warung Kondang intersections follow the small road
left 20 km toward the site, through villages small road until reaching tea
plantations and follows the sign along the road.
 |
| starcase not so steep |
Four kilometer before reaching the site, you will enter
highland, valley and hill covered with tea plantation and small villages for
the tea pickers. Beautiful mountanous scenery of tea plantations, valley and
hills via winding road before reaching
the gate.
After passing the gate, there will be ticket and register
booth for visiter in front of small warung (shop) and the last villages, before
going up the stair to the sacred Gunung Padang site.
During our visit, it was slightly raining, thus we avoid
the main staircase that goes up around
100 meter (400 steps) to the first level/hall on top of the gunung which are very steep, so we
follow the sideway (detour) which is 350 meter longer but not as steep as the
main staircase.
On the half
way to the top, we found the first unique stone inprint with the paw of a
tiger. Later there are two more stone inprint with tiger paw. But strangely we
dont find any human hand inprint ?
 |
| unique imprint lion claw@entrance GunungPadang |
Is this the creature that was here during
the building of this site. Then we continue our climb thru the stairway which
are filled with small trees, bush on the left and right of the stair and it was
not straight, so we cannot see the end of our first journey.
 |
| scenery from 1st terrace Gunung Padang |
It was quite
tiring although we have chosen the flatter stairway, since it was raining and
probably a bit slippery if we chose the straight main stairway.
Then at the
end of this first entrance staircase, finally we arrived in an open landscape
and in front of us is the hill or gunung padang which are covered by scattered
thousand of pilar or piles stones, looks like reinforced concrete, but it seems
this stone are stronger than concrete pilar, since these stone has been in this
place for thousand of years.
 |
| scenery/forest from top of piramid chichen itza |
I wore umbrella because it was raining during
durian and rainy season (14 Desember 2012) in Indonesia.
CROSS SECTIONS & DENTS OF PILES
....to be continued to Part 2.
1 komentar:
From National Geography Special Report The New Age of Exploration. Report on Global Journey of modern human began migration from Africa 60,000 years ago.
The journey passed Indonesian island in two phases to Australia 50,000 years ago and from China/Taiwan 3,500 years go.
Thus the carbon dating of Gunung Padang site still corresponding with the NatGeo report on human migrations to Asia.
NatGeo (2012), Global Journey, page 48-49, edition January 2013, Celebrating 125 years of Exploration.
Posting Komentar