Water held in Nglanggeran Reservoir offers a different view of the rocky hills around it. Gunungkidul’s official tourism source describes this hilltop pond as a water store for irrigating crops. That purpose connects the landscape with local farming needs. The archive photograph shows the water surface, edge lining and railings, with rocky hills behind them. Observing the relationship between an artificial basin and its surroundings gives a reason to stop at the reservoir, without treating this visit as a climb of Nglanggeran Ancient Volcano. Study its edges from permitted paths; water levels and visiting conditions can change and cannot be established from an older photograph.
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Embung Nglanggeran
Kabupaten Gunungkidul · DI Yogyakarta · Indonesia
AI rating4.6
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Head to Nglanggeran Reservoir in Nglanggeran Wetan, Nglanggeran, Patuk, Gunungkidul Regency. The pin follows the Google Maps reservoir listing, not the ancient-volcano summit, camera position or a surveyed entrance. Confirm hours, admission, routes and visiting rules with the operator. Follow railings and staff directions; water in the photograph does not establish permission to swim.
Google Maps: The provisional AI reference adopts one Google Maps aggregate unchanged: 4.6/5 from 6301 reviews, checked 2026-10-07. This is not an independent quality or safety assessment, a personal visit or a Floopel user rating; confidence was not calculated.
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Archive photograph Bukit purba dibalik embung nglanggeran.jpg by Sarwono.sf; CC BY-SA 4.0. Taken on 29 December 2016 and uploaded on 13 May 2019. Original EXIF records a samsung SM-J500G and software J500GXXU1AOL1. Provider EXIF fields were not observed in the inspection. Operations before the source upload, including cropping, are unverified. Wikimedia Commons supplied a 1280 × 960 pixel version without additional cropping, retouching, blurring or AI image editing by Floopel. The media system may process the file for display; public-byte identity and EXIF retention have not been audited. Ultimate uploader ownership remains unverified.
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