SUKUH TEMPLE

About 3 hours to west from Yogyakarta or about 90 minutes from Solo, takes us to Sukuh Temple, ‘the sex education temple’. The trip also offers natural plantations scenery such as Cloves trees, Coffee Beans, and tapioca trees along the side of the road. It could be an alternative destination in case you feel Borobudured to death or Prambanened silly. Although tiny compared to them, Sukuh Temple shares one characteristic with them, it divided into three parts. One of the parts is comprised of a pyramid that is considered look early like Mayan Temple. Kala guards the entrance of this steep. A flat stone sculpture, graphically illustrating the sex acts, and little to the imagination greets us. Legend tells that women and young girls were told to walk over the sculpture to prove their fidelity or virginity depending on the case. If their clothes tore, it could be evidence that they had erred.