Pangandaran

Pangandaran lies on the southern coast of western Java, where the wooded headland of Pananjung shelters a bay from the full force of the Indian Ocean. Sundanese fishing communities found a place to draw up their boats here. Local tradition remembers Pananjung as the seat of a small kingdom ruled by Prabu Anggalarang; according to the story, seaborne raiders attacked it after its people refused to sell their crops during a time of scarcity.