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STORY TELLING ABOUT “PRAMBANAN TEMPLE”

Good morning ladies and gentle man. Thankyou for choosing our travel, I would like
to introduce myself, my name is Alief Rizki and I'll be your guide for the tour to the
Prambanan Temple now.

Long time ago, there was a kingdom named Prambanan. All the people of
Prambanan lived peacefully. But then, Prambanan kingdom was attacked and
occupied by the Pengging kingdom. Prambanan then was ruled by Bandung
Bondowoso of Pengging kingdom. He was a mean king. He also had great
supernatural power. His soldiers were not only humans, but also genies.

The king of Prambanan had a beautiful daughter named Roro Jonggrang. Bandung
Bondowoso fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. “You’re very beautiful.
Would you be my queen?” asked Bandung Bondowoso. Roro Jonggrang was
shocked. She didn’t like Bandung Bondowoso because he was a mean person. She
wanted to refuse, but she afraid that Bandung Bondowoso would be angry and
endangered the people of Prambanan. Then, she came up with a plan. “If you want
to marry me, you have to build a thousand temples for me in just one night," said
Roro Jonggrang. “What? That’s impossible!” said Bandung Bondowoso. But he did
not give up. He consulted with his advisor. “Your Majesty can asked the genies to
help built the temples,” said the advisor.

So, Bandung Bondowoso summoned his entire genies soldier and commanded them
to help him built a thousand temples. The genies worked in unbelievable speed.
Meanwhile, Roro Jonggrang heard from her servant that the building of a thousand
temples was almost finished. She was so worried. But again, she came up with a
great idea. She asked all of her servants to help her. "Please prepare a lot of straw
and mortar. Please hurry up!" said Roro Jonggrang. “Burn the straw and make some
noise pounding the mortar, quickly.” All those servants did what Loro Jonggrang
ordered them; burning straw and pounding the mortar, making the genies think that
the sun is going to rise.

“It’s already dawn. We have to go,” said the leader of the genies to Bandung
Bondowoso. All the genies immediately stopped their work and ran for cover from
the sun, which they afraid of. They didn’t know that the light was from the fire that
burning the straw, not from the sun.
Bandung Bondowoso can’t stop the genies from leaving. He was angry. He knew
Roro Jonggrang had just tricked him. "You cannot fool me, Roro Jonggrang. I
already have 999 temples. I just need one more temple. Now, I will make you the
one-thousandth temple." He pointed his finger to Roro Jonggrang and said some
mantras. Magically, Roro Jonggrang’s body turned into stone. Until now, the temple
is still standing in Prambanan area, Central Java. And the temple is called Loro
Jonggrang temple..

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