One of the popular tourism villages in Gunung Kidul is Mulo tourism village. This village is located in Wonosari sub district area, Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta. It is quite far around 45km away from the city center of Yogyakarta or about 1,5 hours if the traffic runs smoothly. Mulo tourism village becomes so popular because it has an incredible tourism cave and and an extreme tourism trip that might rush your adrenaline.
The Extraordinary Cave Tourism
The cave tourism charm in Mulo tourism village is really different with other cave destinations. The caves in this village like Lengkep, Ngobaran, Ngingrong, and Jemblong cave are connected each other. If you come here, you shouldn’t miss cave tracing activity which is becoming so popular nowadays. This activity is quite challenging the adrenaline. We will lead to walk inside the long spacious cave, which is also watery and slippery, but the magnificent beauty insde the cave will make you really amazed with it. On the cave ceiling, we will discover the active stalactite and stalagmite; we can even see it so close.
On the cave wall, there is a canopy or a unique ornament that has been grown around cave wall. In addition there is also a unique natural phenomenon in Ngingrong Cave where we can find dripstones, forms of various minerals deposited by cristalized dripping water from the cave ceiling.
The Extreme Tourism Activity of Flying Fox and Rappeling
Other than cave tracking activity, here we could try also an extreme activity such as flying fox. We will feel flying sensation from 70 meters height and glide in long zip line of 150 meters. When we glide on the flying fox zipline we will see the beautiful scenery of Ngingrong mountain cliffs. One of this cliffs uniqueness we can found is the writing of the name of Allah which is very popular.
Not only flying fox, another extreme activity could you try when you are on vacation in Mulo tourism village is rappeling. Rappeling is descending a rock face or other near vertical surface by using a double rope coiled around the body and fixed at higher point of about 80 meters from the top of the cave mouth. You will be landed right away in front of Ngingrong cave mouth then you will see directly the cave’s beauty inside.
Stones Park Tourist Destination of Gunung Sewu Geopark
Other than offering the tourism based on natural attraction and extreme activities, Mulo tourism village offers also educational tourism package. In this village we can find Stones Park of Gunung Sewu Geopark, the laboratory and also the natural gallery of various stones collection in Gunung Sewu area. This place is really recommended as an educational tourism alternative activity for students or academy.
Camping Ground
Mulo tourism village becomes a nice location to do camping activity. The camping ground area provided is really spacious; we can even build until 50 tents in this area.
