When Water Falls Perpetually, Come See the Beautiful Grojogan Sewu Karanganyar

By Akbar Hari Mukti,
Tribunjateng.com, Solo

STANDING some meters away, just right before the falling water in Grojogan Sewu, Tawangmangu, Karanganyar, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday (20/8/2017), Nugraheni (33) was drowned into fascination.

In common Javanese language, ‘grojogan’ means waterfall, and ‘sewu’ is a thousand.

Coming from Solo, a neighbouring city, Nugraheni then took a selfie with her husband, Rifki Agung (35), with the waterfall as the background.

She was a little surprized when suddenly a long-tailed monkey jumped off in front of her.

It turned out to long for a pack of peanuts in her hand.

“I was a little surprized. I didn’t expect what’s coming. I thought he’s hungry, so I gave him some,” she said.

The natural view in the tourist park managed by Grojogan Sewu astonished her.

What she enjoyed the most is the rumbling sound of the falling water perpetually jumped down along the cliff.

Budi Cahyono, one of the management staffs of Grojogan Sewu nature park from Natural Resources Conservation Centre Central Java, said that the park belongs to conservation area.

And so, not only the naturalness of the waterfall and the air that the management takes care, but also plants.

Visitors will find various local trees like pine, gondang (Ficus variegata), kemlandingan gunung (Albizia montana), banyan, or puspa (Schima wallichi).

“You can find various fauna as well, most of them are long-tailed monkey, but we have squirrel and some kinds of bird. We don’t cage them. We want to breed them naturally,” he said.

Grojogan Sewu, he explained, heightens 900-100 masl, stands on 20 ha for tourist area, plus 64,3 ha for conservatory area.

The fall falls down a 81 meters cliff.