Pegunungan Dieng Things to Do

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4 times already visit this legendary Dieng Plateau, but the last one all i want to know more is about Dreads Children.
Talk about this Dreads is about history and religious view. As you know there are some Hindust Temple in Dieng and some Hindu religious. Hindu is in Dieng is not exactly the same with in Bali.
By both (history and Religious view) the dreads children have magic power and other soul alive on their body. we can say that they are holy children, but still they are active and act as normaly children perform, only their hairs grow on dread naturally.
In one moment, there will be celebration of cutting the dreads and it is called RUWATAN.
For each dreads children will have one wishes to be fulfilled on that Ruwatan.
when i wanted to met one of them in Dieng, that was after Big Ruwatan held on Dieng. Wasn't easy for me to met the children because almost of them were already cut.
With so many asking to some villagers finally i found one and talked to her, and it is so good! unbelievable to touch and see the hair.

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Telaga Menjer lies on the outer slopes of the Dieng Plateau and is the largest lake of the region. People tend to pass it by, but it lies actually on an alternative route between Wonosobo and Dieng.
The water of the lake is green of algae. On the steep slopes grow pine-trees almost to the water's edge. Fish-cages are anchored along part of the borders.
The lake functions as a reservoir for a hydro-electric power plant. A wide green duct runs beside the road up from Garung.
For Rp 100,000 you may hire a boat for a tour around the lake. Ask them to stop at a shore you like.
You may also walk a path for about a quarter anti-clockwise around the lake, and back.

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There is no accommodation with running hot water in Dieng. Although, if you stay at bu Jono's, on your request they provide you with a bucket of hot water for your 'mandi'.

But if you do not stay over in Dieng, if you have been caught by mist and rain, and you are chilled to the bone, you may desperately need a warm bath.

On your way down, turn in at Kalianget. It is on the outskirts of Wonosobo, 3,5 km from the city center direction Dieng. Kalianget means 'warm river', it's a public pool and bath utilizing a warm-water spring. It has seen better days, but it is being kept clean.

Entrance costs Rp 1000, 20 minutes in the big red tub an additional Rp 5000. If the red tub does not appeal to you, dip into the warm pool. And of course there is the competiton-sized, cold-water swimming pool and the children's playground.

Dieng is a caldera of a volcanic mountain. Such a big caldera that you don’t realize you’re inside it. Be careful when you walk around the craters, some parts of the soil are thin, so you can step into a crater, so make sure you find a guide. There are no fences cause the places of the many craters aren’t constant. Usually a guide will find you.

Telaga Warna or The Coloured Lake is the lake with the sulfur in the water, so thats make different colours to the Lake.
If you have time to go up to the hill, then you can see the beauty of this lake. Such an amazing view: the coloured lake, the Pengilon lake, and mount merapi behind....

Jalatunda well is from ancient crater and then fill with water then become well, so it looks like a giant well. This well has diameter for about 90 m dan hundred meter depth.
There’s a local beliefs that if someone can throw a stone across the well, then all his/her wishes will come true.

The widest crater on Dieng Plateau that still active with its lava continuously excrete white smoke. The colour of this crater black gray, with the natural environment and green hill scenery background.

This crater is a volcanic crater with the crater situated on the flatland so it can be seen directly from the tip of the crater. Until now Sikidang crater still actively excrete hot fumes caused of the lava boild and flare up. The hot fumes with the gray lava come and jump from one place to another like deer (Indonesia = kidang), that's why it being called Sikidang crater.