White crater formed by the eruption that occurred around the 10th and 12th century, a German scientist who discovered this area. local community considers the store Patuha magic and austere, they do not want or crossed in the white areas.
local real contention is not without reason, because they had never seen a bird flew over the crater's white. plus another bird endemic Javan hawk-eagle has not been seen crossing the white crater, Javan hawk-eagle just flew over the tea plantations around the mountains Patuha.
Franz Wilhelm Junghun who found the white crater, he does not believe it with mythical stories of local communities. then he did the research in 1837. after he was researching and analyzing why not Javan hawk flew over the crater of white, it is found that high levels of sulfur in the white crater. not without reason as well why would not Javan hawk-eagle flew over the crater white, Javan hawk-eagle is the only bird that can fly above the altitude of over 2000 meters. after doing research on Franz Wilhelm Junghun completed, or VOC Dutch East Indies government then built a factory near the crater sulfur in the white.
combination of water crater lake framed by rocks and white sand into a unique natural charm. white crater lake water may change change from green to blue or brown, depending on the temperature, the sulfur levels issued from the bowels of the earth and the level of oxidation in the lake water. acid level to white crater lake water has a pH 0.5 - 1.3, this also resulted in the rocks surrounding a white color and a very pungent smell of sulfur still out of the lake and cave white cave around the crater caused by sulfur in the colonial mining.
After Indonesia's independence, and in order to new order (president Suharto) in 1987 then open them in the white crater area as a tourist spot in southern Bandung area.
white crater is located about 50km south of Bandung in 2343 at the height above sea level. attraction is always crowded in the local and foreign tourists visit, the tourist area is different from the northern region bandung Tangkuban boat, in a white crater would not be found souvenirs sellers small shops or stalls around the crater, unlike in Tangkuban boat that was really very touristic.
because of the natural charm of white crater, activity is almost never photographed in the miss by most visitors, now many white crater made in place to take pictures before the wedding even a movie titled "MY HEART" (2006) took place in the white crater shooting