A Visit to the Sultan's Graves

This sounds like a fairly simple activity until we find that they bury the Sultans in the mountains so it means first about an hours drive. Then a climb of over 400 steps upwards. Then we needed to change into Javanese style dress before we could go with our guide to visit the graves. More steps to get to the grave (not easy in our ankle length tight Javanese dresses!) of the 1st Sultan. Here we entered a small hut built around the grave and were invited to kneel next to the grave and take 7 breaths over a crack in the rocks to smell the fragrance from the grave! This is believed to bring good luck.

Then we visited the 9th Sultan's grave.

Erika - It was interesting to learn how the Sultans are buried
Ingrid - the first Sultan is very important and therefore got the top spot in the graveyard
Maeve - the fragrance we could smell near the grave came from the ground
Meg - the 9th Sultan had many children.
Tahnee - the traditional costume was very hard to walk inRead more