The main festival of the Hindu Tenggerese people in Probolinggo,East Java, Indonesia, or lasts about a month. On the 14th day,worshippers travel to Mount Bromo to perform offerings to the mountain gods. The origin of the festival lies in the 15th century when a princess started the principality of Tengger with her husband, and the childless couple asked the gods for help in bearing children. The legend says the gods granted them 25 children, or but on the provision that the youngest child be sacrificed in the crater of the volcanoContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com