The Cave Design Kencono

Gunungkidul is a tourist place recently is loved by tourists from different areas

The place is still very natural and almost untouched by the hands of modern hand made style of the tour is very cool, I wonder if the same is always a lot of visitors come every week and not a few new people who visit Gunungkidul

One of the tour in Gunungkidul is Cave Design Kencono

Cave Design Kencono

The cave is a cave Design Kencono many stories ranging from prehistoric times to the times of struggle Warriors Mataram. A centuries-old trees klumpit a silent witness to a variety of stories that are created in this cave.

Cave Design Kencono is parallel to the ancient cave Cave Braholo Rongkop contained in the District, it is based on the discovery of artifacts and bones that lived thousands of years ago. Cave which has the rooms are spacious and airy with klumpit tree (Terminalia edulis) is estimated to have more than 2 centuries-old was once used as a hiding place and meeting Mataram Warriors when developing a plan to expel the Dutch from the Sultanate Ngayogyakarta. Because it is used to devise strategies for the noble purpose of this cave called Cave Design Kencono.

To enter the Cave Design Kencono enough down the stone steps that have been built long ago. Klumpit tree whose height exceeds proudly welcomes the cave roof. Due to the large hole in the tree trunk weathered look to be a marker already frail age. Cave Design Kencono has a vast courtyard or space and can be used to hold a meeting. Stalactites adorn the ceiling of the cave, many of which are already dead so look no further water dripping. In the next room there is a spacious room is small and cramped and dark. to enter the cave we had to enter a small hallway in the narrow space there are paintings flag and the words of encouragement addressed to the fighters, 

Cave Design Kencono

addition niches are narrow and dark cave, on the other hand there is also a hall that supposedly connects Cave Design Kencono with Waterfall Sri Gethuk

As evening approached, Cave Design Kencono faint moonlight illuminated the mystical and exotic looks.