Sleeping Buddha on Vacation
Are you a traveller, guys? If you like travelling to some
places, I think you have to try Trowulan first. Trowulan is located in East
Java, Indonesia. You could find so many historic places here. Beside that, you
also could find religion places that could be visited. One of the religion
places is Buddha tidur or sleeping Buddha in Trowulan, Mojokerto, East Java,
Indonesia. This is the biggest sleeping buddha in Indonesia. I just visited
there once, but I suggest you to come there because this is a nice place to be
visited. Here, I’ll tell you about my experience when I went to “Buddha Tidur
Maha Vihara Mojopahit”.
Last week, I went to Sleeping Buddha in Trowulan,
Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia. I went there with my classmates and my
lecturers. We used our bus university to went there. As a treasurer, I
organized all of payment like tickets and park. We park a bus, and its park was
Rp 10.000,00. As long as I knew, price of the ticket was Rp 3.000,00 per person.
Fortunately, we got discount for the tickets because there were 4 of my friends
who had visited there the day before. After all the payment had fixed, we
entered the place.
A big joglo’s house with many statues was the first
building that I saw. Joglo is Javanese house. My group and I just passed that
building then we went to the statue directly. At first, I imagined that sleeping
Buddha is a statue that had broken or something like that. But, all my
imagination was wrong when I was in front of the statue. Its pose of the statue
was a big real sleeping Buddha. I just knew that it is the third biggest
sleeping Buddha in Asia. Its long 22 meters, 6 meters for its wide, and its
high is 4,5 meters. Its colour is gold. There is a pond around the statue, it
has so many fishes.
After we had saw the statue for a few minutes, we looked
a place that could be used to gather. We found a small house and we prepared
everything in front of that small house. Actually, the small house is “Rumah
Abu” or house of dust. It is used to put dust of someone who had died. I knew
it because there was an old women told me about it. She said that it was
doesn’t matter if we used this place so long as we had permission from officer.
Then, we started our agenda. There were some students
that performed their skills. There were Bang Zen that read a poem with 3
languanges, Laili and Fay with their drama, and Mas Dhika with his voice. I
forgot something, before they gave their performance, there were my lecturers
that gave the speech. I was happy when I was seeing them, because they made me
inspirated.
After the formal section had ended, we ate our foods that
had we brought. Then, we were given a chance to take a walk around the park. We
had to looked around the area of Sleeping Buddha. There were a beauty park, a relief,
and places to pray. I thought, this place was a crowded place because there
were many people who visit this place. It means, this place is interesting.
The time was running out. My friends and I had to given
our experience. After all was over, we came back. In the bus, we made a unique
moments. We tried mannequin challenge. All of us posed like a mannequin,
including my lecturers and the bus driver. It was a funny moment. Finally, we
really came back to our university.
