Songgolangit Waterfall

 










Waterfalls can be found in the village corner of Flower District, 30 km north of the town of Jepara, waterfalls Sonngolangit has a height of 80 meters and a width of 2 meters. 




HISTORY Songgolangit waterfalls have their own legend that supposedly there was a bachelor who comes from the village Tunahan in love with a girl from Hamlet Sumanding angle Village Flower District. Their love is ultimately up to the wedding. Here Tunahan told that between the village and the river lies the village corner (now the river is on top attractions are the water flowing down a waterfall). Previously, if a man applying for a woman should bring kitchen furniture such as a skillet, plates, glasses, and others. And bring a pet buffalo, cows, goats, and others.
On a morning when the wife would prepare breakfast for her husband, because of carelessness, his wife accidentally dropped the foods that lead to falling furniture and cause noise, so-in-law (wife's mother) scolded his son "Do not be noisy, your husband will wake up" and turned out the husband heard if the mother-in-law said "Working kok noisy, so your husband's luggage." At that moment her husband was offended by the word mother-in-law, then one night the bride and groom are intending to go from house to move into the home of a husband by riding a cart / wagon ditarikoleh cows. Because of the way so dark, the carts are mounted the wrong way so that they fell from a waterfall that is very deep, the missing couple, no one knows its existence so that the waterfall is known as Songgolangit (pillar of the sky).
Legend is hereditary and is still stuck firmly in the hearts of local communities so it is a taboo among the village people and village Tunahan angle to live as husband and wife, because they feared the relationship of households will experience a crisis. While Songgolangit waterfall named, because views from under the waterfall it looks as though the sky going to prop horizon (java: nyonggo sky). It is said that the story waterfall is attended by a husband and wife who care for the convenience of tourists who enjoy the beauty of these places, because they felt that visitors are guests who should be respected and maintained