When I Was in Bromo

So, for this post I’ll tell you about my experience when I was in Malang and visited Bromo with my school when I was in middle school.

I went to Bromo from the hotel when it’s 12’o clock in the morning. We arrived on the legs of the Bromo when it’s 2 AM. It was really cold and me and my friends were freezing. But, we should go higher by jeep. A lot of my friends slept in the jeep, but I talked with some of my friends and the jeeps’s driver.

When we arrived on the higher place, we prayed together. And watched sunrise, of course. It was really beautiful and pretty. I took some photos with my friends, and after that we went to teletubbies hill.

We ate our breakfast on teletubbies hill. The food is not that delicious, but at least we were happy and took some photos ( again ) with our friends and teachers. Some people went to the toilet too, but not for me.

After that, we went to crater. And if you want to go to the crater we should passing a really high stairs. Some of my friends rode a horse to went there. But not for me, I decided not went upstairs and ate indomie instead. It’s not healthy I know, but at least I was super happy.

Btw, do you know the background of Bromo mountain? When the East Javanese empire of Majapahit was in decline, that a princess of the kingdom, named Roro Anteng, and her husband Joko Seger, retreated to the Bromo region and established a separate principality, which they named Tengger, a combination of the last syllables of each of their names. The region, it is said, developed and prospered, yet no descendants were born to the ruling couple.

In despair, Roro Anteng and Joko Seger climbed to the top of Mt Bromo and prayed to the gods, asking for their help. The gods consented to the request on the condition that the last child born be sacrificed in the crater of the mountain. This agreed, the royal couple returned home happily and it wasn’t long before the princess gave birth to their first child. In fact, the gods turned out to be more than generous and in the following years 24 more children were born. However, when the princess learned that the twenty fifth children, named Kesuma, was to be the last and thus the one to be sacrificed, she could not bring herself to fulfill her part of the bargain. In anger, the gods threatened fire and brimstone from the smoking volcano and eventually there was no alternative but to throw the child into the crater.

Shortly after the sacrifice had been made, the child’s voice was heard, ordering the Tengger people and their descendants to perform an annual ceremony at Mt Bromo, to commemorate the event and to appease the anger of the gods.

It was really fun trip in Bromo and I will never forget the memories!