prambanan

According to legend, Roro Jonggrang was the daughter of King Boko's ruling in the Prambanan. Beauty and elegance Roro Jonggrang makes a man from the area named Pengging Bondowoso want memperistrinya. But actually, Roro Jonggrang not love Bondowoso. As a strategy rejected the proposal, Roro Jonggrang issued on condition that made ​​1000 temples in one night.

Before carrying out his job, he meditated to gain strength and help from the genie. Towards evening, the construction of a thousand temples began to be implemented, and before sunrise, the construction was nearing completion. Seeing this, Roro Jonggrang was worried, and tried to prevent such work. Roro Jonggrang then call all the daughters of the village to burn straw and hit the mortar (traditional rice pestle in Java), in order to impress a new day dawns. Jin-jin who saw the day has started leaving work before dawn. Once calculated, it turns out the work that was left was a statue.

Bondowoso knows Roro Jonggrang cheating. With feelings of anger and disappointment, he came to Roro Jonggrang. But Roro Jonggrang remained adamant request fulfilled a 1000 temples. This gives rise to anger Bondowoso. "Not one, he adds you alone". After removing Bondowoso words, Roro Jonggrang was immediately turned into a statue, to complete an unfinished statue. And this statue we can see in the booth next to the north of the main temple.