| Khayangan
Api
 Kayangan
Api / The Eternal Fire
The name of “Kayangan
Api” is a fire source that never die, located in the
forest in Sendangharjo village, Ngasem district, a village
that has about 42,29% jungle area of the village width. According
to a story, Kayangan Api is a place of Mbah Kriyo Kusumo or
Mpu Supa took a rest, he also known as Mbah Pandhe from Mojopahit.
In the west side of Kayangan Api, there is a puddle of mud
that contain of sulfur, and according to belief, at that time
still made farm tools and heirloom such as; keris, spear,
cundrik, etc. Bojonegoro people are still believe that this
fire source is sacred and according to the story, this fire
had take if there is an important ceremony that had done in
the past, such as; Jumenengan Ngarsodalem Hamengku Buwono
X and took the fire through a requirement that is traditional
party / Wilujengan and Tayuban with Javanese Song (Gending)
of eling-eling, wani-wani and gunung, which is Mbah Kriyo
Kusumo’s favorite song.
That’s why when the music has played and danced, every
body is not allowed to accompany the ‘Waranggono’.
From those society story, then Kayangan Api that located about
25 km of Bojonegoro city, placed as the nature tourism object
and placed to held an important that is the anniversary of
Bojonegoro regency ceremony, together purify (Ruwatan Massal),
and “Wisuda Waranggono” (Waranggono graduated).
This tourism object has equipped with kinds of facilities
such as; the hall, kiosks, the bridge, etc.
This location is very suitable
for outbound event, because this is tourism area. At certain
time, especially on Friday Pahing (Jum’at Pahing = one
of Javanese days) there are many people come here to make
a wish in order to get success, get married partner, get high
status and even also to get the heirloom. The traditional
ceremony that has done by the people is Nyadranan (Bersih
Desa / the anniversary of a village) as thank you expression
to the God.
The development of Kayangan
Api tourism is aimed to the development of transportation,
telecommunication, and accommodation. The visit to Kayangan
Api can continue to the nature tourism of Watu Jago Bojonegoro
and to Ngawi regency tourism objects.
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