Long before the Gong cave found, this cave has become a
prima donna mainstay tour in Pacitan. Its location was not far from Gong cave,
about 5 km from cave Gong. In this cave ever found the ancient human fossils
that indicate that Pacitan has become one of the center of ancient human life
in Indonesia.Apart from being a tourist place, this cave is also often
used as a place of hermitage, this is seen from the stalactites are soaring
high green almost reached the roof of the cave. It is not far from the entrance.The stalactite was named Saka Guru and became the most
sacred spot in this cave.
Beside it there is a hermitage with a floor that has been
coated with ceramics. And this becomes the most sacred place.Visitors will find the rest of the remains of incense and
flowers because until now there are still some people who do rituals ascetic in
this place.
Many visitors from outside Pacitan who had been to this cave
even some officials have also done rituals in this historic cave.According to the story of local residents, Kalak cave is a
place of rituals of Raden Brawijaya in the days of the Majapahit Kingdom.This cave is also the oldest cave in Pacitan area. While the
cave guard Kalak named Mr. Manrejo (mbah Tugiman) who began to keep this cave
since 1965, mbah Tugiman is the third descendant of the first guard.He said that one of the ceramics inside the cave for the
ascetic was made by a visitor who originally meditated at Lawu Mountain then
got enlightenment to find the hermitage of Raden Brawijaya, after finding this
Kalak cave then he made a rectangular ceramic place for the visitors of Kalak
cave want to meditate.
Behind Saka Guru you will find stalactites similar to piles
of skeletal bones and skulls that resemble mass graves in Toraja land,and next to this place obtained stalactite rocks such as
animals, flowers or giant mushrooms are beautiful as wood carvings.Entering the room more deeply, will meet with a room that is
more loose and roofed higher, on the north there is like a giant curtain
carving, and the king's throne made of teak wood.This place declined slightly toward the north, curling from
the entrance.in the west will get a king room that is covered with a
curtain that looks like a beautiful carved teak wood.This place is higher than the flat in the cave, and behind
this room-like room there is an unspoiled long corridor to the southwest.
Some sides of the cave are still restricted by fences and
locked so that they cannot be passed.
It is said that many who think that this cave mystique
causes some parts of the cave to be sealed so that residents do not hang
around.Indeed many mystical stories about this cave that even beat
the beauty of stalagmite ornaments and stalactites. Access to the cave
location is very easy, because it is on the edge of the road when we are going
to the Klayar beach precisely located on the left (east).