Beaches including the Bantul area is a sloping beach, with rocky hills, coast and white sandy limestone hills and the scenery on the north coast. In this area, tourists can wander the beach using a hansom cab and rented horses and driven by local residents. As well as a place of recreation, Parangtritis also a sacred place. Many visitors who come to meditate. This beach is one place to perform the ceremony of the Sultan's Palace Labuan.
In the dry season, the wind was blowing hard as not to be outdone by the pounding waves of an average height of 2-3 meters. Often there is a visitor was heard south coast waves swept away. 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 an area where visitors are swallowed waves. Bodies were found hundreds of meters, sometimes even a few kilometers 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), likes to "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 that continues to move. Any item that swept the waves from the beach, dragged down and dumped in different locations.
Trust the local community about the legend of Nyi Roro Kidul also by itself gave birth to its own charm. Almost every Friday night and Tuesday POND POND, visitors and local fishermen perform a ritual ceremony at the beach. Ritual offerings and pelarungan colored 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 for him from ruling the earth and sky.
Among the local community, such mysterious events, reinforce the myth that marine authorities, commonly called Nyi Roro Kidul (Queen of the South Coast), likes to "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 that continues to move. Any item that swept the waves from the beach, dragged down and dumped in different locations.
Trust the local community about the legend of Nyi Roro Kidul also by itself gave birth to its own charm. Almost every Friday night and Tuesday POND POND, visitors and local fishermen perform a ritual ceremony at the beach. Ritual offerings and pelarungan colored 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 for him from ruling the earth and sky.