Kawasan Puncak juga merupakan kawasan primadona di Jawa Barat bahkan saat ini juga telah dijadikan salah satu dari “Seven Wonder of West Java”. Namun perkembangan kawasan ini yang sangat pesat dikhawatirkan akan berdampak negatif. Pemerintah Kabupaten Bogor khususnya Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata saat ini juga tengah mengupayakan dan mulai mengembangkan kawasan alternatif sebagai daerah tujuan wisata. Salah satunya adalah Kawasan Gunung Salak Endah (GSE) yang terletak di sebelah barat Kota Bogor, GSE ini telah terletak di sekitar kaki Gunung Salak. Di sini juga banyak terdapat obyek alami yang bisa menjadi daya tarik wisata, di antaranya:
WANA WISATA KAWAH RATU
Kawah Ratu berada di kawasan GSE pada ketinggian 1.338 m Dpl, dengan suhu berkisar 10-20 derajat C. Kawah ini telah memiliki daya tarik yang sangat unik bagi setiap pengunjung, yaitu dengan aktivitas geologinya. Sepanjang hari kepundan selalu mendidih dan mengeluarkan gas alam Sulfat (H2S) dengan baunya yang khas, dan tekadang mengeluarkan suara gemuruh, akibat semburan uap air panas yang membentuk kabut.
CURUG SERIBU
Curug seribu juga merupakan curug yang paling indah dan paling menarik di kawasan wisata GSE, lokasinya yang berada lebih kurang 7 km dari Loka Purna. Jika kita menuju ke curug ini akan dapat terlihat pemandangan alam yang indah dan alami dan telah memiliki daya tarik tersendiri bagi yang melihatnya. Curug Seribu tingginya melebihi 100 meter, dan terlihat indah dan menakjubkan.
CURUG NGUMPET
Curug Ngumpet telah memiliki ketinggian lebih kurang 45 meter, dengan panorama alam yang indah dan asri. Untuk menuju ke obyek wisata ini , juga dapat ditempuh dengan jarak lebih kurang 38 km dari Bogor. Jika dari Desa Gunung Sari dapat ditempuh dengan jarak lebih kurang 9 km yang dilan-jutkan jalan setapak lebih kurang 200 meter.
CURUG CIGAMEA
Di kawasan GSE, Curug Cigamea letaknya tak jauh dar jalan menuju ke Pasir Reungit, Kawah Ratu dan menuju Curug Seribu. Panoramanya sangat indah sekali walaupun tingginya tidak melebihi 50 meter. Suasananya terasa alami dan begitu segar untuk dinikmati. Hembusan angin dan ditambah gemericik air akan dapat membuat betah berada di sini.
KERAJINAN TANGAN
Dikawasan wisata GSE terdapat juga potensi kerajinan tangan yang cukup banyak dan sangat beragam, antara lain seni menganyam dari bambu yang berada di Kampung Cikoneng, pengrajin sapu injuk dan steer racing besi yang telah dimodifikasi dengan kayu, pengrajin ini juga bisa ditemui di Desa Pamijahan.
AKSES MENUJU GSE
Akses untuk dapat menuju GSE adalah jalur Cemplang-Pamijahan-GSE, akses jalur ini telah memiliki jarak dan waktu tempuh dari jalan raya Bogor-Leuwiliang terpendek dibanding tiga alternatif yang lain, (Cikampek-GSE-Cibatok-GSE dan Tamansari-Gunung Bunder-GSE). Kondisi fisik jalan yang meliputi kontur, kelurusan dan lebar jalan maupun lahan pengembangan secara umum lebih memadai dibanding alternatif lainnya.
Potensi objek wisata alam di kawasan GSE ini tentunya akan lebih dioptimalkan pengelolaannya sehingga diharapkan mampu meningkatkan minat wisatawan untuk berkunjung ke kawasan sini. Sehingga Kawasan Gunung Salak Endah menjadi obyek wisata primadona bagi wisatawan dan menjadi wisata alternatif selain Kawasan Puncak Bogor. Anda ingin wisata alternatif selain puncak? Gunung Salak Endah adalah pilihan yang sangat tepat sebagai daerah tujuan wisata Anda. (PV)
TEMPAT WISATA GUNUNG SALAK
From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.
In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.
Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.
The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.
The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.
The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.
It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.
Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.
That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.
Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.
The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.
THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”
The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.
Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.
That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.
Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.
Finding Scandal in New York and New Jersey, but No Shame