Akbar Cave, Tuban. Silent witnesses of past greatness.

In downtown Tuban hot, exactly in the middle of the bustle of Tuban new markets. No one thought that underneath there is a cave. In that place once the trash of new markets Tuban, the cave was buried under a pile of garbage. Then by the local government, where it was redeveloped into a cave.

The cave, which is located just below the city of Tuban, precise depth of over 10 meters, and has an area of approximately 1 hectare, keep silent witness to the history of past greatness. Tuban is famous as the town in 1000 the cave, because there are many discovered caves in the district in East Java.

This cave contains the story of the history of religion is very high. Told, yore, Muslim missionaries called Sunan Kalidjaga, Sunan Bonang invited to come to this cave, to be used as a hiding place or Nyepi, after Kalidjaga expelled by his father who was a regent of Tuban. Kalidjaga expelled for doing bully unsettling for the rich. Kalidjaga rob and steal the wealth of the rich to give to the poor.

When they both go into the cave, Sunan Bonang fascinated and say "Allahu Akbar," since that's when the cave is located in Tuban was named "Akbar Cave." There is another version that tells that this cave is derived from the word "ngabar, "Java language, which means practice, because the cave was once used as a place of exercise science kanuragan, then since that time this area was named hamlet Ngabar the cave of the same name. The cave is located in the hamlet Ngabar, Gedongombo village, district Semanding.

Before it opened to the public, the cave which is estimated age of 20 million years is a forgotten place. Community know its existence, but used as a garbage dump. However in 1998, the local government took the initiative to clean up waste and manage this place into a tourist attraction.

Now this cave contains various tourist facilities remote from the dark cave, hollow, and the smell of bat droppings. In the cave has been built walking paths of paving block, which is bounded by a fence steinlessteel. Tracks along approximately 1.2 km it is also equipped with signs for restrictions to reverse direction, so that visitors do not get lost. In it there is also a water source called "Kedung Tirta Agung."

The space inside the cave is also more beautiful with the installation of colored lights, decorative lights that help show the dimensions of the stones are amazing. Along the path, there are at least a kind of hall 3 large rooms, which can be used by tourists to take a break.

In addition, in front of the mosque there is a very spacious room called "Paseban The Guardian," a meeting place for Islamic religious broadcasters in ancient times. Stalactites and stalagmites that there seemed to be a decoration of the room, plus the big rocks that were in front of the room, it looks like the long ago used as a podium for the speaker to convey the teachings of Islam.