The outpouring of hot water coming out from bowels of earth is surrounded by several kinds of trees, big intersecting steel pipes in that area. Those steel pipes channel hot steam to the turbine of earth heating electric power plants.

Darajat Crater has some active craters with the small explosions accompanied with the outpouring of hot water coming out of crater’s mouth.

The road of this tourist resort is good enough because of lying at the area foreign company. The area of Darajat crater lies at Samarang sub-district with the distance of 25 kilometers from
Garut downtown or be covered in one our trip.

Some management of hotels, resort and tourism services in Garut, initiate to developing tourism in Garut by adding traveling packages to there. One of the offering packages is "waiting the sunrise in top of Papandayan".

According to Mr. Goya A Mahmud from Kampoeng Sampireun Resort & Spa, compared to Bromo, tourism resort such as Garut has advantages ; after seeing the sunrise in the top of Papandayan, the tourist will bring to rafting in Cimanuk river about 8 meters length that will end in the center of town. Then to relieve the exhausted after rafting, tourist can dip in hot water of Cipanas before going home.

A half day river trip to Green Canyon offers an adventurous experience, westward to Cijulang village (15 km from Pangandaran). 

The splendidly cenic highway from Garut, east to Tasikmalaya snakes through the mountains along the winding course of the Ciwulan river.  Snug againts the Ciwulan's banks lies tiny Kampung Naga, one of the most beautiful and most traditional villages in West Java. 

Kampung Naga is a very peaceful place that has preserved its traditional village layout, architecture and way of life.  The village is scenically located near the road connecting Garut and Tasikmalaya.