16. Moving further downstream, the village of Gunung Gundul in the Regency of Rancabodas
@TheMurderousCricket Thank you! I've since found better ways to detail the sides of the streams with more appropriate flora for the climate!
It has been some time since the last update; the computer I play SimCity 4 is effectively a desktop from now on after its battery went bust so I am leaving it in my weekend home. Obviously I can't play SimCity 4 on the weekdays as a result!
Also, shoutout to the guys from the SC4 Show Us.... thread for giving constructive suggestions on improving MMP realism, especially alongside rivers and streams! All of this is MMP so it has been a lot of work indeed to achieve this end result. Back to the city journal....
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The village of Gunung Gundul is the city tile just west of Citanggung, continuing the downstream path of the Citanggung river. By the way, "Ci" means river in the local language, so basically....ATM Machine! (chuckles)
Gunung Gundul is named after the nearby mountain of Gunung Gundul, appropriately named as due to strong winds at its peak, it doesn't have trees. "Gundul" means "bald" in the local language. Like Citanggung, the village is mostly scattered settlements along the main road, with farms along the entire valley. Here, the river takes a bend, with the river valley only occupying just one corner of the entire 4x4km tile. Lets' start the tour....
Entering into Gunung Gundul, the first signs of settlement is this collection of small roadside businesses and the town school. A bridge connects the other side of the river, where people have settled along the steep and extremely narrow valley.
Across the bridge and down to the foothills lie a thin, yet dense settlement and more farms. Most villagers here are low income farm laborers who work seasonally during harvest season and migrate to the main town of Rancabodas for whatever manual labor work is available, outside of harvest season.
This is theoretically the center of Rancabodas, where the valley widens on one side, so most farms are here. The local clinic is here, so is the village hall (it is actually a Police Station lot but okay!). A local facility recycles lead acid batteries.....the people here aren't educated enough to care about the dangers of lead pollution on crops!
Mo
Moving north, the valley starts to close, here lies the village's only fuel station and the village's other school. Both are elementary schools. High school and middle school students must commute to neighboring Watukapur to continue their education.
Here the Citanggung river is joined by an unnamed tributary stream from a nearby spring at Gunung Gundul. The valley from that point on is too steep and unstable for built development to continue.
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