Solo City with Interesting Sukuh & Cetho Temples Tour from Yogyakarta

Join this tour to Mangkunegaran Palace with interesting Sukuh & Cetho temples. Explore this palace of Javanese legacy at your own pace or hire a local guide to learn about the history of this city. Next, pass by the slope of Mount Lawu, the surrounding area provides an impressive view of the expansive tea plantations and rice fields against the backdrop of hills and towering mountains. Sit back and relax as your driver escorts you back to you accommodation to end this tour.
Highlights:
• Visit Mangkunegaran Palace at the heart of Solo sister city of Yogyakarta
• Explore the controversial Sukuh Temple
• Discover the pyramid Cetho Temple

Itinerary
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Stop At: Mangkunegaran Palace, Jl. Ronggowarsito Keprabon, Banjarsari, Solo 57131 Indonesia

8.00 AM: Pick up at your hotel to Solo sister city of Yogyakarta
10.30 AM: Visit Mangkunegaran Palace


Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Mount Lawu, Ngawi Indonesia

11.30 AM: Continued to Mt. Lawu’s slope

Stop At: Sukuh Temple, Dukuh Berjo, Desa Sukuh Kecamatan Ngargoyoso Kabupaten Karanganyar, Solo Indonesia

2.00 PM: Explore the erotic Sukuh temple

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Cetho Temple, Rt.01/rw.03 Gumeng, Karanganyar 57792 Indonesia

3.00 PM: Visit exotic Cetho Temple

Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Lovely Borobudur Tours By Asni, Jl Wates KM 11 Sedayu, GKP Block B IV / 6, 55752 Indonesia

Begin the tour to Solo City. We bring you to visit Mangkunegaran Palace, one of the Javanese cultural sites that still standing firmly as a monument of glory of the old Javanese culture with a charming touch of Europe. Next stop is Sukuh Temple which is popular & interesting for its erotic ornaments. It was built in 15th-century Javanese-Hindu temple that is located on the western slope of Mount Lawu on the border between Central and East Java provinces. Sukuh temple has distinctive thematic reliefs from other candi where life before birth and sexual education are its main theme. Its main monument is a simple pyramid structure with reliefs and statues. End the tour to Cetho Temple, a fifteenth-century Javanese-Hindu temple that is located on the western slope of Mount Lawu. During this time, Javanese religion and art had diverged from Indian precepts that had been so influential on temples styles during the 8-10th century.
4.30 PM: Return to Yogyakarta city
7.30 PM: Drop off to your hotel