Karanganyar Tourism Travel Guide

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Karanganyar Tourism Travel Guide and Tourist Information.

Karanganyar Regency also is a town the peak of Mount Lawu. which has a myriad of tourism as well allure both geographical location under the foot of Mount Lawu, bordered with in the south east of Central Java Province, Magetan, East Java Province, Sragen district in the north, the districts of Wonogiri and Sukoharjo in the south, and Solo/Surakarta and Boyolali district in the west.

Karanganyar as region advance, just, prosperous, and autonomous in the peaceful situation with the reliable industry, agriculture and tourism, which support by people whom spiritual and physical health, democratic, noble character and nation individuality.

Karanganyar is located between 110º 40' - 110º 70' and 7º28' - 7º46'/ LS, the average height is 511 meters above sea level. Average rainfall is 1.855 mm/month, with highest rainfall in February and with the lowest rainfall in July-August.

Karanganyar is also home of the Mangadeg hill (also known as Truloroyo) Mangkunegaran royal burial complex built upon a small mountain. In the immediate vicinity are the Pablengan ruins of ritual bathing pools, fed by seven natural springs. Several hundred metres away is the mausoleum complex of former President of Indonesia, Soeharto call it "Astana Giribangun" as well as the alleged final resting place of legendary Javanese leader Raden Mas Samboernowo at the peak of this same hill, titled Argosari. There are a substantial number of especially Javanese tourists who visit the Mangadeg and Argosari cemeteries to pray to Samboernowo for assistance in life, particularly business or political affairs, in line with the Kejawen or Kebatinan ancestor-worship/shamanic belief system.

Karanganyar tourism travel guide and tourist information popular destination :

Grojogan Sewu Waterfall.
Grojogan Sewu Waterfall is the model of worth visiting tourism destination in Central Java Province for its panoramic view of the nature. Grojogan Sewu Waterfall mean thousand water fall. Situated on the area of 20 ha, Grojogan Sewu Waterfall is a combination of forest tourism and waterfall. The waterfall is under the management of Natural Resources Conservation Institution Bogor.
Grojogan Sewu meant the waterfall of one thousand. Although the waterfall here did not total one thousand, but had several waterfall points that could be enjoyed here. The highest waterfall was about 80 meters. There was also the waterfall that was not too high but the water drop spread and formed branches that increased the attraction of his beauty, so as when during the rain season, surrounds wall will be showered by waterfall.
Grojogan Sewu Waterfall is located about 27 kilo meter from Karanganyar Regency on the slope of Mount Sewu, Tawangmangu Sub-district, Karanganyar District, Central Java Province Province. Grojogan Sewu also has received awards as the best tourism destination in Central Java

Tawangmangu.
Tawangmangu is a district in Karanganyar Regency and known as a tourism object on the slopes of the mountains west of Mount Lawu. This place was know since the Dutch colonial era has become a place of recreation. A cool splendid hill resort also on the slope of Mount Lawu, at a height of about 1400 M above sea level.
Besides the cool air, the surrounding natural beauty is no less interesting to the other regions in Indonesia, especially in this area is famous for producing vegetables, agricultural production other than the presence of attractions Grojokan Sewu Waterfall.

Sukuh Temple.
Sukuh Temple is a Hindu complex of the religious temple that was located in the Karanganyar Regency. This temple was categorized as the Hindu Temple because of the discovery of the object of the worship lingga and yoni. This temple was classed controversial because of its form that was more unusual and because of the number of objects lingga and yoni that symbolized sexuality.
Sukuh Temple has distance about 20 km to the east of the Karanganyar City. The only one temple that was erotic and Unique in Indonesia. Sukuh “Erotic” Hindus Temple which was built on 1437AD some years after Majapahit Kingdom collapsed (the temple has a trapezium shape with similar shape as the Inca temple in Mexico, South America).
Sukuh Temple building gave the simplicity impression that striking to the tourist. The impression that was obtained from this temple really different from other big temples in Central Java that is the Borobudur Temple and the Prambanan Temple. Moreover the form of the Sukuh Temple building tended to resemble the legacy of the Maya Culture in Mexico or the legacy of the Inca Culture in Peru.
Apart from the main temple and turtle statues, garuda and other reliefs, also was found several animal statues have the shape of celeng (the wild boar) and the elephant. In ancient the nobles and the nobility using elephant for transportation.
Also had the building horse reliefed paste with two human nooses inside, on the side thought and right that came face to face to one another. There were those who believed that this relief symbolized the uterus of a woman and the left-hand noose symbolized the crime and the right-hand noose symbolized the goodness. However this was not yet so clear.
Afterwards had a small building in front of the main temple that was acknowledged as Pewara Temple. In its middle, this building was hollow and was gotten the small statue without the head. This statue by several circles still shined because often given by the ritual offering.
On the whole, visited the Sukuh Temple tourist attraction gave the view just would the form of the temple and its relief that were unusual as being proper for other temples in the Java Island. Definitely this was proof that showed the wealth of the Indonesian Culture.

Cheto Temple.
Cheto Temple is a temple complex, located about 5 km north and 500 m above Sukuh Temple.The layout of temple is similar to Sukuh except that it comprises many more (14) terraces.
The Cheto temple is excavated in 1842 by Van der Vlis. Built in XV century, Cheto Temple has entrances resembling Balinese temple today. After the entrance, multilevel terrace spans east to west. The highest point of this temple is the Nirvana Peak in the reactangular shape. This temple is surrounded by tea plantation and from this high point visitors can see Sukoharjo, Boyolali, Surakarta, Karanganyar, Wonogiri, Sragen dan Klaten. The most interesting that still remain is a complicated figures composed of stones laid flat on the ground.
Based on Van Der Vlis and AJ Bernet Kempers research, Cheto Temple complex consist of fourteen terraces. But in the reality, it only consisted of thirteen structured terrace from west to east with formation pattern and height, it’s assume to be the holiest. Each terrace connected by a door and footpath that is impressing divides terrace yard to become two parts.
The architecture of Cetho Temple are equal with Sukuh Temple. Both of them are have terrace form remind us to “punden” at prehistory age. This formation is a very specific kind of this building and cannot be found at any other temple on Central Java except Sukuh Temple.
At Cetho complex Temple, visitor can found many arc with period marking from prehistorically age, for example, the arc is depicted in the form of simple, both hands is put down in front of stomach or chest. This position, according to the experts reminds to a simple statues at Bada area, Central Sulawesi. There is also relief tell the story scene of Cuddhamala like the one at Sukuh Temple and also animal relief like salamander, elephant, tortoise, eel and crab.
The establishment Cetho Temple can be attributed to existence of numerical inscription of the year 1373 Saka, or equal to 1451 AD. Based on the inscription, and depiction of animal figure and also relief and the arcs, Cetho Temple complex estimated from around 15th or at the end of Majapahit period. The Temple Main building placed on the top back yard. The architecture form of this building is like Sukuh Temple and the architecture form now is the result of restoration at seventies together with buildings pendapa from wood.

Kemuning Tea Plantation.
Located in the same area with Sukuh and Cheto temple. Visitors can participate in Tea Walk or visit tea processing plant. Hang gliding is available to the public every Saturday and Sunday from one of the high points on the hills. Professional instructors and tandem flights are also available.