Dieng Plateau

Dieng Plateau

We could visit to Dieng Plateau.  This 2,091 meter high plateau southwest of Semarang is the site of some of Java’s oldest and starkest Shivaite temples. The temples and what remains of a drainage system, scattered over a wide area , are believed to have been part of a big monastery.The Dieng Plateau is actually a huge crater floor filled with dubbling mud pools and furning cracks. The rugged majestry of the area 6.000 meters high in the sky is most impressive. The road to the plateau leads to tobacco plantations and bucolic fields.

An ancient pilgrim’s retreat, the Dieng Plateau is the geographic center of Java as well as the highest inhabitable region. The plateau was formed by the eruption of a huge volcano many millenia ago but remains active until today. Dotted with Hindu-Buddhist Temple ruins and lying in the caldera of an extinct volcano, Dieng is charged with mystic significance for the Javanese. Surrounded by jagged, mist-shrouded mountains and with temperatures falling to single figures, Dieng is more like Peru or Tibet than tropical Java.

The hardly inhabitants of the plateau, drapped in heavy cloting, carry loads of firewood and farm produce up precipitous mountain tracks. The remarkable Dieng temples, which lie among the plateau’s lush vegetable and flower fields, could be visited on foot. Dieng, a silent mountain plateau with it’s eerie strangeness and proximity to the heavens is aptly called the Abode of the Gods. Dramatic mountain scenery, tobacco and tea plantation, beauty of Lame Warna in Dieng. And also Dvaravati Temple, Semar Temple, Arjuna Temple, Pantadewa Temple, Srikandi Temple, Sembrada Temple, Gatutkaca Temple, and Bima temple.