Ujung genteng is one of beautiful places in Indonesia, it’s a southern coastal area of west java (Sukabumi, Ciracap). The distance is about 220 km from Jakarta and 230 km from bandung and it takes 8 hours till 11 hours by bus to reach there @-@
July 8th, 2011 we started at 6 am from Mbak Desy flats and reached Surade’s terminal at 4.15 pm in the same day . It was a long ride, isn't it :)....
We have passed many beautiful places such as hills, mountain, tea plantation, limestone hills, rice terrace, rubber tree forest and added it with a heavy traffic jam around sukabumi area then met lots of hawkers who came to the bus along the journey, but those things made this trip more interesting *-*
The hills along the way to Ujung Genteng, isn't it beautiful..:)
tree
The River....
Rice Terrace, so refreshing right..:)
The Forest...
We were lucky when we arrived at Surade's terminal we met with good motorcycle taxi riders and from there they guide us to curug cikaso, curug cigangsa and then drove us to our hostel at pondok hexa ujung genteng with a fairly cheap rate *IDR 80.000 cringgggg *. We arrived at 8 pm, we got a good and clean room. the best part of the hostel is the location near to the beach, I could even smell the fresh air of the ocean from our room.
the water is really clear and clean....
curug cikaso in dry season
miror have two face :)
at the top of curug cigangsa
my travel buddy
curug cigangsa in dry season
On the 2nd day, we went to the beach near to the fish market. We bought porridge chicken’s for our breakfast IDR 3000 cringggg and we took some sunrise pics it was cloudy though.
my ritual when I'm happy..lol
with mbak desy
sephia color
hoping the sunrise in the middle of cloudy
After
that we back to the hostel for freshen up and rest a while.
We
decided to walk a long the ujung genteng's shore, we went to aquarium beach, batu nunggul beach
, cibuaya beach and ended up at pagumbahan beach to see the released of baby
turtle at 5.30 pm, we
took our lunch at Anugrah Restaurant near to Cibuaya beach, the meal was
good
and I think from 2 days I have been staying there this restaurant is the
only
one restaurant who serve a good meal.
Well, The distance from one shore to another is quite far and you also have to consider the sun is pretty hot but to me all those things will be paid by an awesome landscape view. So, my suggest to all of you who wanna go there have to make sure your condition first, if u don't want to be tan or don't wanna have big shank/betis tukang becak you can take motorocycle taxi. estimation 50000-65000 IDR (hostel-aquarium beach-batu nunggul beach-cibuaya beach and ended up at pagumbahan beach)
Because
we were too tired to walk back to the hostel we decided to order motorcycle
taxi for drove us to our hostel and picked us for our night tour to see the
Giant turtle (Chelonia Mydas) * the ojek route pagumbahan beach-pondok hexa ;pondok hexa-pangumbahan and then back to
pondok hexa , it cost us IDR 60.000/person..cringggg *
The
motorcycle taxi picked us at 9.30 pm , it took 20-25 mnt to the pangumbahan
beach. Fyi, the
turtle (Chelonia Mydas) usually comes ashore at night (around 9 pm till 4
am) and there are 6 nesting posts but only 2 posts are available for the tourist
according to one of the watchman staff at the turtle conservation.
We
were lucky She come bit early at 10 pm but the nesting process took more than a
hour and no light allowed during the process. So it’s really. really dark only
the moonlight is available light source. :p, I only could hear the waves crashing the shore
and felt the cold of the winds ….
After
the turtle finished burying her eggs on the beach the officer allowed us to use
the flashlight and everybody was busy taking pictures the poor turtle before she
went back to the ocean.
On our last day, we ordered
a local public transportation (angkot merah) to picked us at our hostel and bought
us to surade’s terminal but we requested to the driver to stop by at amanda
ratu beach.The beach is very nice, there are many coconut trees and the air is
very refreshing.
As
part of our narcissism we took lots of pics heheheh. here there are
lots of big roks there ^-^
batu nunggul beach, I guess... no sign board there :P
lets jump *-*
maen air....:)
enjoy the winds
silly man . he surunder to be dragged by his friend
thankful they didn't write. do not take pic in nesting beach.
Somewhere in May 2011 Panas member had family gathering at Ancol,……
2 weeks before that I was shocked with that rumors.
well last year we were went to Bali and theoretically this year we should increase the sense of our holiday *ex: go to abroad is a great idea, right ? . specially when it's a company gathering and it mean free holiday once a year.. heeeeeee :p....
anyway, due to some of the workers request to bring their family and other considerations then Panas decided Ancol to be our destination place. I tried to be always positive minded although I quite bored with the place.. :P
At 1st day me and mbak metty went to the beach & we were rent the boat for a half hour IDR 20.000/person. The sunrise at Ancol’s beach not too bad althought the sky wasn’t bright enough….here some of the pics
sunrise view from mercure hotel
tried to zoom the water and make the sunrise to be the background
fisherman....
the sun...
so many apartment construction lately and we lost mangrove forest around there...I really don't like it... :(
The owner of the boat....
And then at noon time all the Panas team went to Dufan, it was sunny day and we had tons of fun there. Here some pics from Dufan.....
Dufan Chinese town area
me lol...
mini lighthouse I guess... @-@
Hysteria, the queue will make u scream aaaaaaa..I give up... $-$
here is indonesian spinx......:)
the bling-bling cart...
moci-moci.. cup-cup...lol
u don't have go to holand to see windmill house.. we have one here.. ;)
colosseum..? heeeee
Bianglala
2nd
days or the last days, we went to atlantis, I didn't take a pics there but I took some of nice spot in Mercure Ancol....
the roof.. straight to the beach view
the balcony from my hotel room
the lobby... :)
I spent 3 days and 2 nights. it was a good gathering and quite fun even though I was doubtful at the first. here is the lesson I got from this trip...
"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself." - Henry David Thoreau-
smile... . masih tampang bantal ya... :)
happiness on ur hands, right? :)....have u got urs? have a great day
