Indonesia Java International Destination – East Java – Goa Tabuhan Cave, Pacitan

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Goa Tabuhan cave located in the Pacitan regency in East Java is one of the popular Indonesia Java International Destination. According to a popular public story many people believe that the Tabuhan cave was established by a person named Kyai Santiko who found this cave while he was searching for his lost ox and finally he found his ox inside this cave. It is also said that the ox didn’t wish to come out of the cave because of the river present inside the cave. The cave was later on taken care of by the person named Raden Bagus Joko Lelono and the princess named Raden Ayu Mardilah. This Tabuhan cave is located in the south western region of the East Java. Music is played regularly in the cave and people feel that the sound created by the musicians is due to their striking of the lomesone stalactites which resonate in matching pitch to the music. The view of the cave is spectacular and it consists of stalagmites and these give the cave the height of around fifty meters and there is water the drips from the roof of the cave. This Goa Tabuhan cave, an Indonesia Java International Destination gets its Tabuhan due to the reason that the sound inside the cave will resemble the music of Javanese gamelan. The cave was formerly referred as Tapan cave.



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