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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Terawang Cave

This is a time stone cave with stalagtites and stalagmites decoration in it which lies in the middle of Blora teak forest.The cnatgural cave recreation was developed by an erosion and dissolution of rain water on limestone for thousand s of year and visitgor may also see the familiar monkey.The distance of this location is about 35 km from Blora Town.

The Terawang caves (Goa Terawang, there are six of them) are situated in a teak forest at 170 m elevation. Even in the dry season the air is relatively cool here.
The roof of the main cave has collapsed in places, therefore you can walk from lighted space to lighted space even without a torchlight.

It is said that in colonial times the Dutch arranged parties here. However, we visited during the wet season, and the bottom was much too muddy to think of partying.

Address: Near Todanan in kabupaten Blora. Directions: About halfway between Purwodadi-Blora, at Kunduran go 8 km north to Todanan. With public transport take a bus to Kunduran, get off at the medical centre (Puskesmas). Take a minibus to Todanan. Do not stay too late, after 16 hours minibuses are scarce.