One of Indonesia’s coast to visit is the beach Parangtritis, why? Because in addition to this very beautiful beach, Beach Parangtritis also store important myth of relevance to the Legend of Nyai Roro Kidul and other resorts surrounding the Parangkusumo Beach, and the Kraton Yogyakarta, Beach Parangtritis itself is located about 27km from Yogyakarta and Central Java Province.
Why Parangtritis Beach say a myth? People there believe that this beach is the unity of the three sacred places in central Java is Kraton Yogyakarta, Merapi and Parangtritis Beach, according to the statement, that’s Sunan Kalijaga (one of the main propagator of Islam)place met Panembahan Senopati and gave an advice to remain humble despite having high power and knowledge.
The scene at the beach Parangtritis can be seen from many places around with a different sensation every place, when we stood on the edge of our coast could see a vast sea with huge waves and high rocks on the east coast, we can walk on a beach to enjoy , there is also a rental Bendi (horse carriage typical Central Java) if we want to enjoy the beach scenery around about not by walking.
Gua Langse (Langse Cave), we can look the west coast, a large wave scene in silver and gold when the sun sets, this cave is also famous cave called Gua Ratu Kidul (Ratu Kidul = Queen of the South Coast authorities), and we have to ask permission to guard the cave or the so-called Kuncen if we want to enter, according to Coast guard of Depok, we can see the south coast scenery is more beautiful when we entered the Gua Langse.
Parangtritis beach each year hold a traditional ceremony of the Tiong Hoa people called the Peh Cun Festival Ceremony, This festival is held to commemorate of a Hero of the Tiong Hoa people which is very faithful in his time called Khut Gwan (Yuan Qi), The ceremony was very unique and magical, the Tiong Hoa ritual is standing the eggs from 11.00 am, and amazing, the egg is not falling, but when the time entered to 13:00am, the egg will fall and it can not stand anymore, so magical. And one other thing from the public trust Parangtritis beach and central Java is not wearing green clothes when visiting the beach because believed would bring disaster to those who wear it.
That Parangtritis beach with various myths and magical things, but behind it all, this beach store matchless beauty, well suited to serve the tourist vacation spot, especially a very loving and Sea Coast tour.
