A Trip to Cangkuang Temple and Dragon Village

Yesterday, my classmates, some teachers. and I, went to visit Dragon Village. We gathered first at the school. We went there by bus, a travel bus. In the bus, the man of the traveler gave us McD for breakfast, and some music but we didn't like the song, because the genre is dangdut ): , so, we used Gatra's phone.We sang a song together, but as the time goes, we fell asleep. It took about 2 hours, then the man of the traveler wake us up. Before we came to Dragon Village, we visited Cangkuang Temple first.  located in Kampung Pulo village, Cangkuang, Kecamatan Leles, Garut Regency, West Java, Indonesia.We have to across the lake which is called Situ Cangkuang to get to the Cangkuang Temple. We used the canoe to across the lake. When we arrived there, there was a man from there who tell us about the Temple, the grave, the history of them all, and how to make a tradisional paper from Cangkuang tree. The temple is one among the few Hindu-Buddhist temples ever discovered in West Java region, other temples includes Batujaya and Bojongmenje temple. The temple's name cangkuang, was derived from Sundanese native name for pandan tree found grown around the temple in Kampung Pulo island. The temple was made from andesite stones, the temple's base measures 4.5 x 4.5 meters and 8.5 meters tall. The temples faces east, on the east side there is a flight of stairs leading to the portal and a small main room.  Inside the main room there is a small 62 cm tall stone statue of Shiva.The architectural style is similar to those of early Central Javanese Hindu temples. Three meters to the south from the temple there is an ancient Islamic tomb of Embah Dalem Arief Muhammad, believed to be the community elders of Cangkuang village during the Islamization of local Sundanese people in 17th-century. But actually, the one thing I like there, is the scenic view when we across the lake.
Then we continued the trip to Dragon Village. We