ORIGINAL OF SRI GETHUK WATERFALL

        Located in a village called Bleberan, this water fall becomes a very worth visit spot. To get to this place, you need to ride your vehicle along the woods owned by the government. You have to be careful since the road condition is not always good in some parts. Entering Menggoran village, we will see different vegetation of wood, and it's a quite dense woods. After getting to a fishing area which is also functioned as a parking lot, there will be two choices to reach the falls. The first track is going to a path with green rice fields and coconut trees as the view, and the second one is crossing the stream of Oya river using a very simple raft made of drum and wooden board. Certainly, at that time we chose the second choice.

The trip to Sri Gethuk water fall began before noon when Oya river looked still and green and it looked so harmony with the karst valley on both sides of the river. The sound of our raft bending the stream broke the silence of the morning time. While riding the raft, a guide told a story about the history of the falls. Based on the legend, the falls was used to keep kethuk (one of music instrument of gamelan, a Javanese music instrument) belonged to Anggo Meduro, who was a kind of genie. Sometimes, the people living near the falls still could hear the sound of the instrument and that was why it was later called Sri Gethuk.

After riding the raft for some times, we could hear the thundering sound of the falls. Sri Gethuk water fall was in front of us and we could see beautiful stones below the falls forming terrace at the edge of a luxurious pool that invited everyone to swim. We got off from the raft and passed the stones to get to the falls. It felt like in an unknown world where water was everywhere. One of us suddenly shouted "Look! There's rainbow" and when we saw it, an awesome colorful curve was above us and at that time it made us felt like being fairies.

VERB SRI GETHUK WATERFALL

waterfall = air terjun

worth = bernilai

spot = titik

government = pemerintah

vegetation = tumbuh-tumbuhan

dense = padat

functioned = difungsikan

parking = area parkir

stream = aliran

raft = rakit

certainly = pasti

hut = pondok

noon = tengah hari

valley = lembah

genie = jin

near = dekat

thundering = gemuruh

terrace = teras

edge = tepi

luxurious = mewah

curve = melengkung

vest = rompi

limestone = batu gamping

barren = tandus

infertile = infertil

hardwood = kayu keras

surrounding = sekeliling

flowing = mengalir

also known = juga dikenal

derived = berasal

occasions = acara

descend = turun

hence = karenanya

greted = disambung

decided = memutuskan

current = arus

faint = lemah

harness = memanfaatkan

gardually = bertahap

purely = semata-mata