Candi Ratu Boko, A Peacefull Rocks
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Located in a hill, called Boko Hills, Boko Queen Temple has much more beautiful angle view than the other temple. In the afternoon, the sunrise could seen in the gates of the temple. Sometimes, there are wild birds and animal pass away in the yard. A peacefull scene being a soul of the temple.

Boko Queen Temple built in the times of Rakai Panangkaran, a royal descent of Wangsa Syailendra. The temple built in order to set a meditation place for the royal family. The temple has divided into four buildings: the middle, the east, the west and the south east. The middle are main gate-3 metres high, a yard, a burning temple, the paseban and the punden. The east are caves, a Buddha's stupa and sacred pools. The south east are the pendopo, the balai-balai, temples, sacred pools and the keputren. The west only rock hills.

After entered the main gate, there is a big yard within, the area divided into 2 temples : White Rock Tempe and Burning Temple which use for burning corpse. 10 metres from the Burning Temple, there is the punden and sacred pools. People believes that the pools giving lucky for who is believes in. Hindunese use the water of the sacred pools for their ritual, Tawur Agung.

In the east, there are two big caves, big pool and Buddha's stupa. The situation is very quiet and silent. The high cave called Gua Lanang (man cave), the lowest called Gua Wedok (woman cave). In front of Gua Lanang, there is a pool and three stupas. The south east being a private area of the temple. In some area, as the Keputran and The Balai-balai, there is some holes for wood coloumn stand up. The area were belong to residence of royal family.

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