Kali Pancur Waterfall, hidden below mount Telomoyo, lies in Nogosaren Village, Getasan Sub-district, Semarang Regency, merely 3 km away from Jalan Raya Salatiga-Kopeng, can be reached easily by your own vehicle for the road to go there is available, or if you intend to go there by a public transportation, either from Salatiga or Magelang, you have to tell the driver to drop you at a T-junction in front of a small gas station, then you can take "ojek" (a motorcycle taxi) there.
Kali Pancur Waterfall opens daily from 7.30 am to 5 pm, the entrance fee is at IDR 2,500, this money managed by local people for development fund of their village, such as to build a mosque and its maintenance. However, if you leave this area more than 5 pm, you will be fined at IDR 5,000.
After parking your vehicle and passing the entrance gate, the tough journey down to the waterfall begins.
From here, you will start walking down through a walk way and hundreds stairs waiting for you. It's extremely test your fitness, especially on your way back.
According to doctors and health authorities, stair climbing gives health benefits for our cardiovascular fitness as well as other positive impacts.
On my way down to the waterfall, i met two men, local people, bringing pennisetum purpureum or well known as elephant grass to feed their cattle.
Many people in Nogosaren village raise cattle as dairy animals for milk and they sell their milk commonly to "koperasi" (co-operative) and then the koperasi resell it to a milk factory.
Therefore, i saw a lot of elephant grass planted in gardens along the walk way.
While i was walking, sometimes i heard some wild birds chirping, then they flew to another twigs. So natural. they looked enjoy their habitat, and i almost forgot that i was still walking down on hundreds stairs.
In the middle of the journey to the waterfall, you'll find a small roofed veranda with a tub inside for collecting flowing spring water from mount Telomoyo.
On my second trip there, the place was still clean, and i met some local kids playing and bathing in the tub. However, on my latest visit (my third visit), the small roofed veranda looked dirty and slippery. And according to an old local woman whom i met there, this place, considered sacred, built by a rich man (the land owned by him). It used to be a meditating place by immersing the body into the tub (it might be done whole night), in flowing spring water on Javanese sacred days of "Jumat Kliwon" (Friday Kliwon) or "Selasa Kliwon" (Tuesday Kliwon). By doing this, people believed that all their wishes would be granted. But they don't do this ritual, for some reasons, anymore, just burning some incense on those days.
It used to be a meditating place
If you feel tired there is another bamboo shelter before the waterfall where you can use it as a resting place and a viewing spot to gaze a natural beauty of mount Telomoyo while hearing the sound of spring water and waterfall flowing down into a small stream and finally flowing towards lake Rawa Pening.
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| spring water flowing down |
Before arriving at the waterfall, as you will approach a broken walk way and it can be slippery, i warn you to be careful.
Kali Pancur waterfall, i'm not sure how high is it. I've ever asked it to local people at different times, but i've never got a satisfying answer. In my personal opinion, perhaps, the height is over 100 meters.
At the waterfall, what could i do, merely stood still gazing Kali Pancur waterfall from below while searching if i could see any wild monkeys up there in the forest.
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| Kali Pancur Waterfall |
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| its pool |