Friday, June 8, 2012

Mount Bromo

Mount Bromo is one of the most beautiful tourist spots on the face of this earth that appropriate sentences are pronounced when discussing one of the most beautiful mountain in the world. Mount Bromo (from Sanskrit: Brahma, one of the main Hindu gods), the volcano is still active and most famous as a tourist attraction in East Java. As a tourist attraction, Mount Bromo become attractive because of its status as the volcano is still active. Mount Bromo is included in the area of ​​Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park.


Bromo has a height of 2,329 meters above sea level it was in four areas, namely Probolinggo, Pasuruan, Lumajang and Malang. Mount Bromo shape mesh between valleys and canyons with the caldera or the ocean of sand covering approximately 10 square kilometers.

Mount Bromo has a crater with a diameter of ± 800 meters (north-south) and ± 600 meters (east-west). While the danger area of ​​a circle with a radius of 4 km from the center of the crater of Bromo.


Mount Bromo beauty we enjoy from various angles and most tourists enjoy doing is when dawn or the sun is the most at the moment waiting - waiting.

Ceremony Kasada

Tengger tribe is Hindu longer and not as Hindus generally have temples as places of worship. To do worship then they will do so in the staircase, danyang and potent. Potent itself is a piece of land in a sea of ​​sand at the foot of Mount Bromo as the venue for the ceremony Kasada. Potent consists of several buildings arranged in a composition in the yard is divided into three mandala.


For the people of the Tengger tribe, traditional ceremony is one manifestation of gratitude to god Tengger community. There are many traditional ceremonies in the Tengger people who have goals include a variety of asking for a blessing, distanced catastrophe, act of gratitude for the gift of God given to the Tengger community. One is the traditional ceremony Kasada.


This ceremony is a ceremony to commemorate the sacrifice of a son Raden Kusuma Jaka Seger and lara Anteng. Besides this ceremony performed by the Tengger community to ask salvation and blessing. The ceremony is held solid 14th s.d. 16 months Kasada or when the full moon appears in the sky as a whole once a year.



In Kasada ceremony Tengger community there are several steps that must be implemented for the ceremony Kasada ceremony takes place solemnly Puja purkawa namely, Mangala ceremony, Ngulat people, Tri sandiya, Muspa, Division of bija, diksa Widhi, Delivery offerings at Bromo crater. The process goes Kasada ceremony began on time Sadya puja and ends up Surya puja where the entire community to Mount Bromo Tengger to convey victims


Kasada ceremony Tengger community has brought benefits to society perch. In addition to asking for salvation, the ceremony was able to suck a lot of attention of the entire community. There is political value in this Kasada ceremony where Kasada ceremony is a ceremony which also aims to plug the political forces in the area.

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