Lor, Ngetos, Gua Selomengglen, Teguwangi, Surowono, Dorok, Rimbi, Tetok Kerok.
Candi Lor is on the left roadside leading from Kediri to Nganjuk, right before the village of Loceret.
Built into 937, out of brick, it is now well ruined, because "inhabited
" by a large tree of which the roots imprison the monument while désarticulant
it.
Candi Ngetos is to approximately 10 km in the south of Nganjuk, in the west of Kediri. It is necessary to take the road which leads to Sawahan and Seduto Waterfall , then to take on the left at the fork of Berbek and to continue finally on a few kilometers to the village of Ngetos. The monument is planted ten meters of the road in the village.
Candi Ngetos is a large shivaïst sanctuary gone back to 1389. With a basic square, it is perched on a very high brick base. Its roof disappeared.
A long flight of staircases makes it possible to reach the entry of the sanctuary. On both sides of the door, two great niches indicate the site of the two guards. On the three others faces, are other niches dominated by large quite round heads of Kala.
Located at a short distance southwest of Kediri, at the foot of the mount Klotok, it is a cave which includes four cells and of which engravings date from the 10th century.
One can see, on a
celestial bottom, some characters in meditation, as well as a
representation illustrating Arjunawihara (the
marriage of Arjuna).
The site, arranged well, is located in the homonymous village, a little north of Pare.
One sees there a shivaist temple dated from 1370, of which there remains only the base, and the terrace surrounded by a low wall of approximately 1 meter in height.
In the center of the
terrace is a splendid lingam / yoni richly
decorated.
The particular and exceptional interest of this building comes from decorations which stretch all around the outside of the low wall.
They are most beautiful
decorations illustrating Sudamala.
On the left of the
monument, a small temple annexe to him is also superbly decorated
, like some other statues here and there.
Among the famous sculptures of this temples appear, engraved on a pillar, two strange heads of characters.
Candi Surowono :
This temple is a little in the east of Pare. It is dated from 1390.
One sees it at the bottom
of a large field whose remainder is occupied by tens of blocks of
stones, aligned well, often carved, and coming for the majority,
certainly, of the temple itself, of which the higher part
disappeared.
The first impression which
one has by seeing this temple, is to find opposite the twin
brother of the precedent, Candi Teguwangi.
Because this temple, in addition to its external resemblance to this last, also unrolls all around its body, a superb series of pictures superbly carved.
These illustrations are drawn from three texts : L'Arjunawiwaha, Bubuksah and Gagang Akhing, and Sri Tanjung.
The site is in the village of Dorok, south-east of Pare, on the road of Puncu. Un indicative panel - C. Dorok 2 km - on the road of Pare to Kepung indicates where one must turn right.
In the medium
of several houses of poor peasants, and protected by a roof from corrugated
iron, appears three meters downwards, in a hole, a structure square of 10 m
x10 m made of rather white bricks. It is the base of the sanctuary which would
date from Xème century.
Candi Rimbi is in the village of Nrimbi, close to Bareng in the North-East of Pare on the slopes of Anjasmoro mount, in a splendid area.
It would
have been built in 14th century in the honor of a Mojopahit princess:
Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi.
Although
there remains only the base and a part of the trunk, the temple is worth the
turning for the belt of reliefs which makes the turn of it. These reliefs presented
in escutcheons, shelled us bucolic scenes with characters, animals and flowers.
On the site
of Candi Rimbi a statue of Durgamahisasuramardini was found which
is now exposed in the hall of the museum of Surabaya.
This name indicates a
large statue of Dvarapala (guard), of
which half of the body is buried. This statue is situated about
fifteen kilometers of Kediri. It is necessary to take the
direction of Pare then to turn on the left 10 km further at the
panel indicating Tetok Kerok , and to
follow on a few kilometers. The object is to 10 m of the road on
the place of a village.
