Whispering Sands
1 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
Mount Bromo Whispering Sand is a series of Bromo Tour who named it first according to the story that this tour has used a film show played by Dian Sastro, the story according to Miki WikiPedia is Daya (Dian Sastrowardoyo) is a young girl who lives in a poor village near the area of Sastro beach with his mother Berlian (Christine Hakim) who works as a herbalist.
Daya's father, Agus (Slamet Rahardjo Djarot) is a puppeteer who disappeared when Daya was a child. Agus's absence made Diamond grow up Daya alone in the middle of a village far from modern civilization, making Berlian a very protective mother, especially since Daya has now become a girl.
The power confined from social and often imagine the presence of his father. In his strangeness, Daya often slumped into a sandy ground, he always thought sand whispered to him. Daya also hopes, when his father comes home, Daya can go with him to leave, far from his mother. In that village, an unusual terror occurred, where many people died and the house burned down, it made many people move. One day, a group of people from out of nowhere attacked the village.
Daya and Berlian immediately brought enough supplies and clothing to escape from the village. They walked indefinitely, Berlian remembered the words of her little brother who was now a ronggeng dancer around, that the safest place near the village was Pasir Putih.
Daya and Berlian can finally settle in White Sand by occupying an empty hut. When Berlian opened a herbal medicine shop, a man named Suwito (Didi Petet) who was a salesman, got acquainted with Berlian and was lured in secret with Daya.
Daya befriends a girl of her age named Sukma (Dessy Fitri). Sukma said that he knew when new people arrived, thanks to the sand. Sukma and Daya studied with Sukma's grandfather (Mang Udel). One day, Daya walked alone and met a group of dancers and met with Mrs. Lik. Mrs. Lik gave Daya a ronggeng shirt, and since then Daya has become a dancing person. Because of Daya's reluctance to dance in a ronggeng shirt, Diamond quietly burned the clothes, making Daya more annoyed with her. Bu Lik finally left, along with his entourage, he warned Berlian that if he behaved harshly to his son, his son would leave. One night, Agus returned and returned to the house in Pasir Putih.
This reunion was not greeted with fanfare by Berlian who stated that he no longer needed Agus. Agus and Daya quickly became family again because of Agus's pleasant profile. In front of Daya and Sukma, Agus practiced how to attract people's attention when holding a performance. Upon returning home, Daya and Sukma played in a dry field, Sukma suddenly collapsed and died from a fall and hit her head with a sharp rock. Surely Daya really lost her best friend. Then, Agus for several days brought Daya to Suwito. Apparently, Power was harassed by Suwito after Suwito gave Agus a package of expensive cigarettes. Power becomes traumatized and falls ill.
Diamonds take care of Power. He drank poison to Agus, who was about to fall asleep, and he died. Then, Daya finally reawakened. He and Berlian lived for several days before their house was burned by unusual terror. The film ends with Berlian who tells Daya to leave with Sukma's grandfather, volunteering himself.
That is one of the uniqueness of Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park which is located on the four borders of East Java, namely Malang Regency, Pasuruan Regency, Probolinggo Regency and Lumajang Regency, which are in the form of desert at an altitude - + 2000 meters above sea level, and made an interesting panoramic exploration for Bromo tour options under the name Bromo Whispering Sand, Whispering Sand itself is actually a giant caldera, part of the Tengger Mountain region which is about 8-10 Km in diameter. So when you are in the sea of Bromo sand, you are actually in the Tengger Mountain area, where some of the mountains are still very active, one of them is Bromo and the highest mountain in the TNTBS area, Mount Semeru