Caving At Buniayu

Hi Dawn,

At that time, i didn't know why i said yes to this trip.

Hahaha.. Just so spontaneous i said yes without know about this place or about caving :p..

By the time we decided at 10 Nov 12, and with some problems of course, but finally i went with just 4 people (including me).

Buniayu Cave locates in Desa Kertaangsana, Kecamatan Nyalindung, Sukabumi. It needs 5 hours from Jakarta, it is enough far. The place still like in forest so it is still good and nice to go.

From what i heard from our guide, this place actually was a beach with a lot of big corals but by the time this corals went to the up. Just contrast with my picture, this place looks so high from sea surface.

Landscape around the place

And i was so excited this was my first time to cave, i didn't know anything about caving before. And it is difference with snorkeling or diving. First the guide made us to change our clothes (using like a fireman) and do some simple exercises, then we walked to the cave.

dark...

Yup first i should go to the down in this vertical cave (around 18-20 meters) with the complex ropes and some people help me. The place is so dark and i didn't bring the lamps :p. I should bring the lamps next time haha. So the guide using their lamps and let us walked in the darkness. Yup it is very dark we can't see anything i already tried when the guide turn off their lamps. I smelt amonia because of the bats or any stuffs in here, hard for the first but then it will be ok until the end.

It is very nice place it looks like in discovery channel, i saw a lot of stalagnit / stalagtit a lot of ornaments in the sea here. I walked in water also, saw the down river and the flows of the waters. It was a really good experience for me. Fyi my clothes still good here just wet in the leg because of the down river. But for almost last 1,5 hours (the last part) was very tired, i walked in a mud. It is very hard to walk in here we must run, jump, climb, and doing some acrobatics lol.

After i found out the way out it was such a good feeling i could see the lights, and then the guide brought us to waterfall to clean ourselves. that is very fresh because our body already very dirty.

After the 'steam' and 'sauna' in the cave haha

After out from the waterfall haha :-D ( i don't know how to rotate -_-;)

Every cave have their good and bad things, i will try another cave next time :-D.. Do you wanna try?

And if you are interested with this trip just contact Buniayu Adventure (Mr. Ferry) in this number 081563537430 (seriously this is not advertising).

-danny williams | @dannywilliams-