Friday, November 12, 2010

Skull Cave (Gua Tengkorak) & Lojang

Pasir - This cave is situated in a village up the river limestone cliffs, Stone Sopang, Pasir Regency, East Kalimantan. Located 4 km from the edge of the road-130 km trans Kalimantan Balikpapan-Banjarmasin. If you understand kira2 Rambutan Waterfall Mountain only 10 km from there.

Skull Cave is a hole in the cliff at a height of 20 meters. Hole. height about 1.5 meters, width of 2 meters, 3 meters long. At the end of the hallway terdpt hole with a narrow hole that must be entered with creeping inside found another room with wide elbow length kira2 10 meters and 20 meters high. There is a cave ornament which is quite nice. Hole cave roof, is a pathway to form a water-hole they will cave. and rekahan2nya form a stalactite.

GOA contains 35 skulls and bones of hundreds who are remaining ancestor jazad local residents. To enter the second room, no doubt nudged the body of this jazad2 krn narrowness among the examined. Fortunately not many ignorant tangan2 who regard this as souvenirs. There are no guards there. Age of jazad tsb decidedly less known. Some graves outside using Arabic script.

An oddity that I felt alone and it's hard to believe, that the strong aroma wafted around this, the problem is to deny the existence of other keluarga2 bau2an like that. I find out the origin but not mendptkan bau2an origin. I am very curious about my olfactory kalau2 no wrong. I think this might be a kind of positive expression "invisible" welcome,. As a result, a trip into the cave tunnel kedlm can proceed.

This cave is located on the outskirts of the village who crossed the two rivers as far as 500 meters using a suspension bridge which looks quite good and well maintained. To reach the cliff, there is a stairway up which is safe to ride.

Skull Cave Not far from there is another cave called Cave Lojang, a limestone cave in the other with about 400 meters. Lojang Goa, located one kilometer from the Skull Cave, also located in the middle of a vertical cliff-high limestone hill about 30 meters. Goa has a huge elbow room as Niah caves. Mouth of the cave is situated at an altitude and it is available to reach the stairs. If only the first time enter the cave kedlm type like this, we will be amazed at the center of the eternal darkness in the room Dlm a very, very big. unfortunately the camera can not image specificity mendptkan tsb. without preparation with thousands of watts lampu2 to reach the entire part in the same time.

1 comment:

  1. This is an interesting 'off the beaten track' insight. Thankyou.

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