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Mount pulosari & waterfall

Pulosari mountain is a volcano in Pandeglang, Banten, Indonesia. Although no data explosion that has ever happened, but there are fumaroles activity that occurred in the caldera wall with a depth of 300 meters.

According to the History of Banten, arrived in Banten Girang, Sunan Gunung Jati and his son, Hasanuddin, visit Mount pulosari then a sacred place for the kingdom. There, Sunan Gunung Jati become a local religious leader, who converted to Islam. after conquering Mount Teak Banten Girang militarily.
Then he became king with the blessing of the king of Demak. In other words, Sunan Gunung Jati not establish a new kingdom, but to seize the throne of the kingdom that already exists, namely Banten Girang.

At the National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta there are a number of statues called "statue Caringin" because once a garden ornament-resistant Dutch assistant at the venue. Arca was reportedly found in Cipanas, near the crater of Mount pulosari, and consists of one basic form of sculptures and statues of Shiva Mahadeva 5, Durga, Guru, Ganesha and Brahma. It looked like a statue in Central Java from the beginning of the 10th century. Chance of Mount pulosari Sunda kingdom is a shrine, that once existed between years 932 and 1030 in the northern province of Banten now.

There pulosari mountain stream waterfall called Curug Putri (Princess waterfall.
CURUG Sundanese is the language which means waterfall. Named Princess waterfall, because the waterfall is located in Mount pulosari, Cilentung Village, District pulosari, this Pandeglang, believed to be a bath time immemorial the princess of Sky.

Beliefs about the existence of Sky princess who was bathing in the waterfall, according to trust the locals, is marked by the emergence of the rainbow on Mount pulosari. Rainbow is believed to be a way for the Princess of Sky down to earth and back to Sky. However, if the rainbow had vanished before the princess of sky bath is completed, local residents believe there is a door behind the waterfall into the way back to sky

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