The SOIL still wet the former rain yesterday evening. Lagkah-foot step up the trail continues to climb through the early morning cold. Lighting only one point there was only a flashlight from the two villagers who guides the four newcomers to the area or the hill top puntuk Situmbu. Since at 4:30 pm they move from farms in the township Kurahan, Desa Karang Rejo, Kecamatan Borobudur, Magelang, to divide the forests of teak trees and sengon. 20 minutes later they arrived at the peak of the field area, a point for them to start hunting photo fog Borobudur Temple.
As dawn slowly emerged between the slopes of Mount Merapi and Merbabu, that’s when stuck stupa Borobudur Temple as the parent who is top of the temple in the middle of a thick mist seedlings. Right then slowly century temple architecture of the VIII was emitting a miracle, mystical, and quiet.
Grew in strength, due to fog blanketed underneath a group of people in a very reverent to the pilgrims and the faithful are prepared to await the arrival of the Holy Tri seconds of Vesak 2010 tomorrow morning in the courtyard of the temple.
The hunt was not successful. They, the photographers had to patiently wait for the fog rolling, hoping the fog becoming thinner so that tens of effigies appeared intact as part of the silhouette of the temple.
Although the sky was clear and still looks the rest of the stars, the fog does not necessarily rapidly thinning. By their unpredictable weather, because it’s local area yesterday evening rain.
Calculation
Nuryanto, 30 years old, one of the guides say, it takes proper calculations when photographing a thin haze blanketed the Borobudur Temple in puntuk Situmbu. Ordinary thought throughout June to August is a good time to take pictures.
“Outside the moon is always raining and the temples are usually not visible at all from here (top) because it certainly is very long thick fog, even if clear, the position of the sun is not quite right, so not much good,” he explained.
In fact, according to some tourists and photographers have many times to the top of the hill to get a moment of prey. Like Heru Sri Kumoro, photographers Compass in Solo, after the second time there before she could get the landscape of the temple.
During 2010 was carrying hundreds of people have climbed the region. In a particular example in August of foreign tourists visiting crowded. “But often there is no single tourist in certain days and months as the rainy season and the weather is felt not support,” explained Riyakub, other guides.
“If the sky is good, not later than five o’clock we’ve had to climb, let us not lose sight,” he added.
Since two years ago, the top of the hill has been managed as one tourist destination panoramic sunrise and the mist of the temple. Hamlet Kurahan taken about 20 minutes away from Borobudur temple in motor vehicles. In the early post climbing, tourists can park their vehicles and heading it is also commonly been waiting for the guides from the local village youth.
Village cooperatives withdraw money amounting to Rp 15,000 per visitor to the village cash income. That has included guiding services treking to the summit to be taken for 15-20 minutes. Price is of course quite burdensome than the satisfaction of mystical power at the same time absorbing the beauty of Borobudur Temple