The last 2 days (18 & 19) of our tour centered in Solo.
I fell in love with Solo more than 45 years ago because of the Indonesian song 『Begawan Solo 』 in Mandarin（梭罗河之恋） sung by Malaysian famous singer Pan Xiu Qiong in the sixties. It was a river flowing with romance and love. (another version of Begawan Solo 1962)
Begawan Solo (River Solo) is the longest river in Java.
Finally, I was standing by the river of Solo ... but without the romance and nostalgic feelings. Today, Solo River, like thousands of rivers in Indonesia and throughout the world, has been gravely polluted and silted.
I was disappointed but feeling grateful (good Karma) to stand by its bank after almost half a century later.
We went off the beaten track, up to a national park to see a waterfall and Sukuh Hindu temple ruin nearby.
The Sukuh temple was one of the last temples built in Java. It has a distinctive thematic reliefs from other temples where life before birth and sexual education are its main theme (kama Sutra).
Solo is a greener and much more beautiful city than Jogjakarta and Semarang. The roads are lined with trees and shrubs.
We left Solo for home today at about 2:30 pm. and reached KLIA 2 hours 20 minutes later. （more pics in Facebook ）
我们的行程最后两天，都是在梭罗度过。
梭罗，对我来说，是一个充满浪漫憧憬，优美翠绿的地方。大约五十年前，潘秀琼唱的（梭罗河之恋），一首译自印尼著名的民歌，优美的旋律，动人的歌声及浪漫的歌词，在我少年的时候，已经留下了深刻的印象。
今天，我很高兴的能够站在梭罗河畔，目睹了梭罗河水，实现了几乎半个世纪的憧憬，心中无限的感慨，但却缺乏了那个浪漫感。
今天的梭罗河，如印尼及世界许多美丽河流一样，遭受到严重的污染及淤泥阻塞的同样命运。不过，我很感恩，能够来到这个向往已久的河畔，心里已经是非常大满足。这是善业！
我们在梭罗的活动，是到偏远的山区，游客不多的一个国家公园观看瀑布，及参观附近一座山上的苏古兴都教神庙遗址(Sukuh Temple)。
苏古庙是行动教皇朝在爪哇建立的最后一座神庙。它与其他的神庙不同，有着一个特有的主题神庙，以古『欲经』为教育的基础，所以可以看到许多男女性爱，家庭等等石刻雕像。
梭罗给我一种比较舒服的感觉，比日惹，三宝垄更翠绿，大道都种有树木。
我们今天乘搭下午的飞机，两个小时二十分钟的旅程，在傍晚六时左右回到了家，结束了这个中爪哇寻幽探秘之旅。
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