Explore the intriguing and controversial temples located in the slope of Lawu Mountain, Karanganyar Region, Central Java. Visit Cetho and Sukuh Temples. Be collected at your accommodation in Yogyakarta then travel for three hours to Cetho and Sukuh Temples. Pass by the slope of Mount Lawu, the surrounding area provides an impressive view of the expansive tea plantations and rice fields against the backdrop of hills and towering mountains. The Sukuh temple look like Pyramid does not follow the Hindu architecture of Wastu Vidya because it was built after the Hindu religion had weakened. One suggestion is that it represents a mountain. Relief at sukuh temple Tell part of MAHABARATA story . Other statues in Candi Sukuh include: a life-sized male figure with his hand grasping his own penis and three flattened shells of tortoises. In Hindu mythology, the tortoise symbolizes the base or support of the World and is an avatar of Vishnu

Cetho is one of several temples built on the northwest slopes of Mount Lawu in the fifteenth century. By this time, Javanese religion and art had diverged from Indian precepts that had been so influential on temple styles during the 8th-10th century. This area was the last significant area of temple building in Java before the island's courts were converted to Islam in the 16th century. The temples' distinctiveness and the lack of records of Javanese ceremonies and beliefs of the era make it difficult for historians to interpret the significance of these antiquities