Cibulan Water Tourism Object

Cibulan is a cold waterpool tourism object that is located in Maniskidul village, Jalaksana district, Kuningan regency. It’s about 7 km from the center of Kuningan city or 28 km from Cirebon. The bathing place pools are located approximately 300 metres to the west from Kuningan – Cirebon highway. The enter path is large enough and it has been aspalt. It is one of the oldest tourism object in Kuningan. It has legitimated on August, 27^th 1939 by Mr.Ahmad Mohammad,R.A.A. as the Kuningan’s regent at the time. Cibulan is one of four waterpool tourism objects in Kuningan, the others are Linggarjati swimming pool, Cigugur pool and Darma Loka pool. All of them are occupied by sacred White Kancra fishes, but only Cibulan that is used as public swimming pool.

Enter to the Cibulan’s area, people are welcomed with peace ambience as the features of villages. The shaded place below of leafy shelter trees and the fresh air make every one visit there feel quite and peaceful. The wind blows breezy, bring uproar leaf sounds that rub against from density of shaded trees beside the road. Occasionally fallen turn yellow leaves are blew up by wind and scattered on the surface of the green pool water, it reflects trees shadow. And in the below of the water surface, tens dark grey fishes swim back and forth.

In this tourism object there are two big pools that have the shape of rectangular. The first pool measures 35 x 15 meters square with depth about two meters. The second pool measures 45 x 15 meters square that is divided into two parts. The first part depth in sixty centimeters. Both of them always cleaned once two weeks or more. It depends on the water cleanliness. Every pools are occupied by tens fishes whose color is dark grey and they are called White Kancra or god-fish. It’s measures are variative from twenty centimeters until one meter in long. The god-fish is a kind of fish that sacred by people

around Maniskidul village area with reason that those fishes have certain extraordinaries. This object is also completed with exclusive swimming pool facilities, such as dressing room, little six bathrooms, and two bathrooms for washing place after swimming.

Beside pools with the domesticated god-fishes, in the west corner of it there are seven sacred spring waters named Seven Wells. They have a form little pools, each of them have their own names; Prosperity Well, Magnificence Well, Answering Well, Cirancana Well, Cisadane Well, Ease Well, and Safety Well. Those springs are surround a ruins of Prabu Siliwangi’s when he was taking a rest after his returns from Bubat War. That ruins in the form of stones composition and there are also two stripped tiger statues as symbol the grander of Pajajaran exalted king. All visitors believe that the wells can grant their pray.

Although in the dry season, Cibulan’s water always clean, transparent, cool, and abundant. That is why except as a recreating place, Cibulan is also become water resources for Territory Waterworks (PDAM) of Kuningan, it is also benefited by Pertamina Cirebon to supply the clean water needs in it’s two complexes, they are Ciperna Golf Course and West Java Operating Upper Course Territory Company (DOH JBB). Cibulan bathing place pool not only gives benefit for visitors, but also it become the extra amount income source for Maniskidul inhabitant by selling many kinds of foods or handicrafts.