Adventure
riding in gedong Songo
Very often we see and
feel that accomplishment is when we can master a certain skill.We never
appreciate something small and may not feel it is a remarkable thing that we or
others have ever achieved. Examples of achievements are often forgotten
and we take for granted are in terms of resilience to keep a job or live in a
state where we feel the pressure. For example, when we had to remain
seated opposite each other with a tester who bombard us with the oral questions
that we are not able to answer within 3 hours! Small achievement is
remarkable in this condition is when we could still face all conditions that
make us depressed and did not give up and run away from the intimidating
circumstances. Another example is like my experience when I first tried to
ride a horse around the gedong Songo temple complex on the slopes of Mount
Ungaran Semarang Central Java, a few days ago.
Gedong Songo is a
tourist destination My sister and family at that time. I was very lucky to
be able to participate even if only just heard about this temple via Google
while on a trip from Semarang within approximately 45 miles to the location of
the temple complex.Entrance tickets to the Gedong Songo varied: for adults USD
7000 while foreign tourists amounted to Rp 70,000. In the cold atmosphere,
after entry, many of which offer horse rental services. If we always
wanted to live a healthy life, the actual event of this tour can be used all at
once walking exercise to keep warm, but the nephew terpincut with horses parked
at home. Big Brother then start bargaining with the horse bidder, even
though the price of USD 50 thousand is a fixed price for customs around all the
rides that were there, which visited all the temples and hot water. Then
began the fourth nephew happily up one by one horse, and then followed by me
and an aunt who is assigned to supervise and maintain the safety of his
nephew. One by one the riders horse imitation is photographed in the style
of a real jockey.
Not unexpectedly turned
out to the streets through which the horse is very heavy terrain.We had to
climb through, derivatives and sharp bends and in addition to a special horses
footpath no safety fence which prevents the horse plunged into the
valley. And more sinister imitation horse rider's saddle horse can only
hold so that our salvation through rough terrain in this only with much prayer,
eyes closed and holding a saddle with a vengeance. I imagine the horror if
I fell off the horse, especially a horse the rider was not equipped with
insurance. Imagine Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from a fall from a
horse. Wow, in a state in danger why I even imagine that
spooky-spooky. But, unexpectedly, his nephew that I should keep and eye on
gembiara even looks cheerfully, waving his hand toward the aunt who has been
left far behind. In fact there are two nephew who had dared to hold a
leash saddle (control) horses. My brother who is also the nephew aunt
finally down, give up. I had thought to follow in his footsteps, but I
remembered that my achievement is not a horse can run properly, but it remains
clear until the finish line!
When horses leisurely
stroll on a sloping road, I asked the "handler" horse who always
accompanied them on the history of domesticated horses gedong Songo
temple.According to the handler, the temple was built by Queen Shima of the
kingdom of Kalinga. Well, because I was really dark about this temple then
I can only dazed-confused. And when I was googling it turns out that I can
is that this Hindu temple was built during the reign of the Sailendra dynasty
in the 9th century (the same as Borobudur?). Nine of the temple which means
building and found by Raffles in 1804 consists of 9 temples, but not all the
temples intact in the form of the building, there is only (roughly) 5 intact,
the rest of the boulder only remnants of the temple which is used to signify a
building temple intact.
Near field when it is
used by students or students who are conducting orientation activities, we
arrived at the temple which is the temple which is in the highest area, about
1200 above sea level. It turns out that the horse track reached the last
temple first and drops down next explore temples. At this point we could
see all the beautiful sights, including the views of the other
mountains. After being stretched and hand hurts from the tension during
riding, so we did continue the journey to the geysers or hot springs.From
close-smelling sulfur geysers, hot water bubbling in the earth. The nephew
asked how the geysers, but the aunt ngasal answer their questions lol.
From Geyser we headed to
the next temple. We had asked the horse handler to take our
pictures. Finally, it can also photograph style on horseback, although my
original situation is much worse than that dipoto haha. Not far from the
temple there is another temple when it was visited by the tourists who were
interviewed by our students who are learning English.
Approaching the last
temple, a nephew who initially were behind the sudden overtaking her aunt
accompanied by the interpreter without the handler. With her versatility
in control horses. Seeing this action, the other a nephew who was followed
by joyous because it can control the horse. Nephew finally all get to the
finish line with joy. Then came the aunt
long ago joyful and grateful end to the tension of adventure riding horses
