Longest cave in Indonesia, Luweng Jaran
In addition to the mushrooming of tourism so Pacitan District, this onealso has a very exotic nature interesting to visit. One of the places that make manypeople curious about this is Luweng Jaran. Luweng Jaran is a tunnelthat could be a place of nature lovers or expedition for the purpose ofyour tour. Luweng Jaran is the longest cave in Indonesia, which lastdata entry on the list of the world's longest cave. However, althoughLuweng Jaran is one of the expedition, its existence is still dieruntukkanonly for people - people who already have specific expertise in the expedition of nature, and not to the public. This is because the locationis very difficult to be reached and dangerous, so take special skills tobe able to enter into this Jaran Luweng.
Jaran Luweng registered in 2002 has a total length reaches 24 km.Location Luweng Jaran is situated in the village Jlubang, DistrictPunung, Pacitan, East Java, or about 30 km from the city centerPacitan. Jaran Luweng initially, first discovered by local residents, andend up in the first exploration by the Joint Expedition team Anglo -Australian, who was accompanied by a crawler Caves of Indonesia in 1984. At that time, the mapping reaches 11 km, then the expeditionwas continued every 2 years. In 1992 return expedition to combineLuweng Jaran with Luweng Punung Plente, so the total length reaches19 km. Luweng is very dangerous in the rainy season, because it is theSwallow Hole or the disappearance of the river surface into the cave.Quite a lot of searchers who get caught flooding caves in this cave.
To explore this cave necessary vertical equipment, with details of the first wells have a depth of 12 meters, up to the first terrace has adistance of about 25 m before reaching the second wells with a depth of 25 meters. Then later after pitting the two, there is a very largehall, began here can be done without equipment field vertically. Luweng Jaran can be called a cave maze, because the streets branch out andgraded. When you are interested and Luweng to berekspedisiin this lesson, it is advisable to bring a map of the cave or leave amarker so as not to get lost in search activity in this cave. Well, you areready berekspedisi and conquer the challenges along the LuwengJaran?
