Cibodas Botanic Garden has a long and important history of research and conservation. The early history of Cibodas Botanic Garden is also the early history of what is now one of Indonesia's most significant National Parks and a World Heritage Area, Mt Gede-Pangrango National Park. Cibodas is renowned as one of the first tropical research stations in the world, and numerous scientists have used the station for their research on tropical rainforests.
Cibodas Park"If there were still a paradise on earth, a part of it would be Cibodas", so said Dr. Frist W. Went, a Dutch plant physiologist , when he described his rapture of Cibodas Botanical Garden.
Dr. Frits W. Wents description must have been right. The Beauty of Cibodas Botanical Garden is really beyond description. There are Spectacular meadows and deep groves of trees.
The 80 - hectares Cibodas Botanical Garden is located down the slopes of Gede Pangrango Mount and has been well known for its tourist attractions. It is so beautiful that it is called " A Paradise in Asia " There is a collection of hundreds of trees with different types and ages. There have been about 5,831 example plants out of 1,206 varieties existing here so
As one of gates to climb Gede Pangrango Mount, Cibodas, botanical garden was visited not less than 400,000 visitors per year. Some interest places, which often visited such as green house, Arnucarua Avenue, Cibodas waterfall and landscape location with spring water. At green house, places 4000 kinds of cactus from 350 varieties and 360 orchids.
Cibodas Botanical garden is located at Rarahan village, Cimacan Cianjur. The distance is about 85 km from Jakarta or about 90 minutes tour through Bogor Puncak Cianjur main road.
They said the opening of Cibodas Botanical garden was connected to the history of coming quinine to Indonesia. At first, a Dutch Botanist Johannes Elias Teysman wanted to plant it this area, but the land did not suitable for quinine growing. Finally, he decided to plant the seeds in Pangalengan, West Java. The date of coming the seed of quinine at, April 11, 1852, stated as Cibodas Botanical garden anniversary.
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