What are the Interesting things Beside Nature?

• Ceremony to the God, under foot of Mount Bromo

Meanwhile, the mountain and natural beauty are also offering unique attractive of cultural diversity. Tengger ethnic, the original ethnic that live around the tengger area. They are rich in culture and tradition. They annually do  ceremonies under foot of Mount bromo. It’s called Yadnya Kasada or Kasada.

This ceremony aims to give gratitude to the god, for abundant their crop production such as Fruits, Beans, Vegetables,etc. They do it from the temple (pura Luhur Poten) which is their worship, then afterward go up to the crater. they throw sacrifices into the bromo crater. They start in the middle of the night till the next Morning.  The origin of ritual life is in the 15th century legend.

In addition to the ceremony of yadnya kasada,there are also other ceremonies that the ethnic tengger do, such as karo ceremony, entas-entas ceremony, unan-unan ceremony. all the ceremonies are continuing each other.  

• Traditional Music, and traditional dance Including the Ceremony.

Tengger society is still retaining their tradition. Various ceremonies they still do not missing their traditional dance. Such as Ujug dance, Sodoran dance, Kidung Tengger Dance, Probo Mutrim dance. Every dance has meaning

Ujug dance

This dance will be done by 2 mens, They are originally Tengger people while accompanied by Traditional music gamelan karawitan. This dance describes the Familiarity of friendship. Ujug dance will be represent in karo ceremony(Marital party.

Sodoran dance

Presented about Human being and existance. It will be presented in the Yadnya Kasada ceremony. This is only danced by 3 villages of Tengger, but all the ethnic Tengger do this ceremony.

Kidung Tengger Dance

Kidung dance describes their ancestor Figures there are Joko Seger and Roro Anteng. They are praying to the god, and want to have a child. and the Hindu God( sang Hyang Widhi) blessed them. and they are have 25, they have promised to the god that the last child(Jaya Kusuma) will be Plunging into the crater. Before that Jaya Kusuma asked every 14th month of Kasada(Tengger Calendar) the ethnic Tengger will dedicate their best result of crop plantation and plunging into the Crater. and This is the origin of Yadnya Kasada beginning.

Probo Mutrim Dance

The art of this dance is assigned of god( Sang Hyang Whidi). Probo Mutrim Dance is typical of Happy dance  so the movement is so joyous. Usually this Dance will be presented every year in a sand plain (sea of sand).

• The Famous and Skilled agriculture

On the other hand. In the agriculture sector, the local people of Tengger Their livelihood is the farmer, 95 % they work in the field. dusty are the tourism sector. Because they are living on the slopes mount Bromo, they are famous and skilled in crop production.

Commodities that plant in the slopes of bromo are cabbage, potato, spring onion, tomato, and carrot. all the commodities will be supplied outside of java. the area of mainstay agro-tourism in East Java is Sukapura. This area has fertile soil, so it can produce the best result.

Bromo Tengger National Park is a must on your travel list if you plan to visit Indonesia and especially for East Java volcano adventure. with the diversity and harmony of Locals and the nature create something beautiful to enjoy and gain plenty experience while travelling. We wait for your visit..!