Parangtritis Beach is a beach located approximately 27 km to the south of the city of Yogyakarta, can be achieved through Parangtritis Road, with a straight or a longer route, but the scenery more beautiful and the village is through Imogiri Siluk.
Parangtritis incoming Bantul a sloping beach, with rocky hills, white sandy beaches along the coast and views of limestone hills on the north shore.
In this area, tourists can get around the beach using a gig and a rented horse and driven by locals. As well as a place of recreation, Parangtritis is also a sacred place. Many visitors who come to meditate. Parangtritis this is one place to do Labuhan ceremony of the Sultan's Palace.
In the dry season, the wind was blowing hard as not to be outdone by the waves that the average height of 2-3 meters. Often there is a visitor was heard south coast waves swept missing. Surprisingly, the bodies of visitors that fateful, disappeared like a swallowed by the earth. Average SAR team could only find her body 2-3 days later after conducting searches. Typically, the location of the discovery of the bodies are not in areas where visitors are swallowed waves. Bodies were found hundreds of meters, sometimes even a few miles from the original location.
Among the local community, such mysterious events, reinforce the myth that marine authorities, commonly called Nyi Roro Kidul (Queen of the South Coast), like "eliminate" people who do not heed the rules of nature. From the scientific side, such incidents further strengthen the theory that the ocean trench south of Java is loaded undercurrent moving. Any item waves swept from the beach, dragged down and stranded in different locations.
Local belief about the legend of Nyi Roro Kidul also spawned its own charm. Almost every Friday night and Tuesday POND POND, visitors and local fishermen perform ritual ceremony on the beach. Pelarungan colored ritual offerings and colorful flowers into the sea. The highlight of the ritual usually occurs at night 1 Suro, and two-three days after the feast of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Essentially, fishermen asked for salvation and mercy of the rulers of the earth sustenance and langit.Wisata Yogyakarta.
