SALAK mountain in Indonesia, Myth and Mystery

Salak Mountain Location

Geographic and Characteristics.

Mount Salak is a volcano that has a height of 2211 meters above sea level. According to altitude, Mount Salak not the highest mountain in Indonesia. Located in the district of Sukabumi and Bogor, West Java Province. There are three craters on the mountain and has a character that no other mountain. The weather is unpredictable and rapidly changing. In a few minutes can happen fog, clouds and rain.

Weather factors that potentially this is often the case in an airplane crash over the past Mount SALAK. Previously had six times the aircraft crashed in the area of Mount SALAK, that is :
1. October 10, 2002
   Trike-engine plane crashed in Lido PKS 098, Bogor, 1 killed.
2. October 29, 2003
    Sikorsky S-58T helicopter Twinpack Air Force crashed in Kemang district, 
    Bogor regency, 7 killed.
3. April 15, 2004
    Red Baron GT 500 Aero Sport Lido crashed, Wates Jaya village, 
    Cijeruk district, Bogor regency, 3 killed.
4. June 20, 2004
    Skywagon Cessna 185, crashed at Lake Lido, Cijeruk, Bogor. 5 killed.
5. June 2008
    Casa 212 Air Force plane crashed on Mount Salak in elevation 4,200 feet,
    18 killed.
6. April 30, 2009  
    Donner training aircraft, from the Flight Training Center Curug, 
    crashed in Cibunar, Tenjo district, Bogor regency. 3 killed.
7. April 9, 2012 following the fall of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft 
    from Russia, which remains a mystery. Why this route still be passed?

For mountain hiking, mount Salak is very challenging. This mountain can be passed from some of the official route or not playing by nature lovers. The number of road route to the summit of Mount Salak and intersecting each other very confusing mountain climbers, so a lot of mountain climbers who get lost and then disappeared.

Mitos SALAK mountain.

There is a term for this mountain as Mount haunted. Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft that crashed on Mount Salak is still a mystery what caused the plane to fall to the ground, whether SUPERJET Sukhoi aircraft crashed due to the awesomeness of Mount Salak full of mystical aura?

Mountain is actually a place of tourism, sometimes nature lovers, mountain climbing when experiencing the mystery event that is heard Javanese gamelan music in the forest, and also saw the apparition of spirits or lost in the woods until it is gone and never came home. For it is highly recommended for nature lovers do not say bad words or abusive during the trip, to avoid interference mount Salak spirits.

Besides the place of tourism in Mount Salak also considered mystical, for example in the crater, a crater named QUEEN has many victims died from the tourists due to sulfur poisoning in Crater QUEEN, or drowned while swimming in the pool, giving rise the mystery story in the Mount Salak.

Mount Salak still considered sacred by the indigenous people here, this native communities often hold the event every year tradition and ritual, held at Mount Salak because the mountain is highly respected by the local community. Was used if at Mount Salak many found the site of worship or sacred place a very trusted local community, and in this region is also known as the human mating ritual with a genie.

This area was once called a lot of heritage treasure of Dutch. The treasure of pure gold to be included in the crates. And the crates were then buried in four separate points in the region of Mount Salak. Holland then made ​​a map of a direction given signs of physical location. Map of that location until the situation has now changed physically and still a mystery.

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