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.


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.