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Holiday Trip to Karimunjawa

On last weekend, the long weekend.. from May 17th to 20th, me and my friends, Yusa, Argha, Binbin, Maikel and Ook have a trip to karimunjawa islands.. what a very nice and a very tired trip…
We (exclude Maikel) gone from my office at 18.30 on Wednesday, after work, using a cab to the place where the bus wait and will take us to Jepara. But it was taking so much time from the office building to the rawamangun bus station, we were facing so much traffic jams… when we finally got to the bus, it’s already past 20. hmmm.. we’ll be late.. and that was right, because we could only arrive at the dock on Jepara at 13.30 on the next day.. it’s a 17 hours trip from Jakarta to Jepara.. it’s too long.. in my mind, i only count for 12 - 14 hours.. i don’t know what’s happening, is it the traffic or the driver that drove the bus to slow…
btw, we only 15 people on the bus using a rent bus.. 6 from our team, 7 the other team (Wisnu, Ratih, Jenny, Yunita, Ming ming, Irwan and Franky) and the driver and his co-driver.

Arriving at the dock we have to use a fisherman boat (only a little fisherman boat) and gone sailing for 6 hours!!! wow.. such a very long trip in the middle of nowhere… but the wave are very friendly on that noon.. with only a captain, 2 man as his crew, 13 people from 2 teams and 2 other man that we don’t know who, we go to karimunjawa islands…

but…

after 4 hours on the sea.. the engine of the boat having a trouble, and need to be repaired on the sea… wow.. but after a while the boat got broke again and then the captain ask another boat to pull our boat to the dock at the Menjangan island on the karimunjawa islands… and we arrive at 22.00… so, the total is 8 hours on the sea… and 25 hours from Jakarta… what a very long trip to have a vacation… but… in the morning we all know that the place are worth it… so, it is OK (at least for me) to have such a along time on the road and sea for the beautiful view of the place..

for the place that placed in the middle of the sea, our inn which is floating on the water, is not too hot, it’s a very cool and cozy place… but we can not go anywhere without a boat, the inn is not have any direct links to any island there… after having a late dinner, of course they are seafoods, we still couldn’t sleep.. we are too tired to get sleep.. so the all talking until 2 o’clock in the morning (at least it is me) and i get up a little late at 6… and the view… ahhhh, very pretty… who needs a sunrise if we still could see the sun rising behind the big island in front of us? hehe.. it just a quote for me because i couldn’t reach a single sunrise there ahh.. what a sleepy head!!



and then i realize that Mr. Joko (Ismarjoko), who own the place, have a little sharks preserved place… wow, it is beautiful with 2 big sea turtles, a lot of sharks, starfish, clownfish (anemonefish), and a lot of i don’t know fish… but be careful, the inn is surrounded by Edible sea urchin (Sea urchin or in Indonesia “Bulu Babi” as in “Pig hair” ) under the water, because this sea urchin has a little poison on their “hair” or spines. Ok, but we will not swim, snorkel or eve dive near the inn…. hmmm.. but Binbin does swim when we ride on a banana boat.

ok… after having breakfast and take a shower for the one who wanted to have shower (but i didn’t take a shower that morning… I’m going to swim, snorkel and diving all day long, why should i get shower?), we go on a little ride on a banana boat near the inn, ahh.. but may be it just so boring because the speed is too low and the water is too quiet… ok.. just pass it…

now… lets go for snorkeling!!! On a small boat with 13 people and 3 boat crews, we go to find the spot to see the underwater view… first, it is a very hard wave and we have to try hard to get back to the boat after snorkeling.. and the crews decided to find another spot, near (very and too near) to the beach.. so, we interested to the beach more than to do the first thing we’ve plan, to snorkel… hehehe…
ok.. after playing on that beach in a very small island, we get to another beach in a bigger island that have a very beautiful view and (they who seen it said) beautiful underwater view… the coral reef are very great… but, i just regret my self because i didn’t have any underwater case for my camera, or at least a pocket camera with underwater bag…. it is very beautiful if we could get the picture from the corals… ahh.. i don’t know how to say it… God… it’s very beautiful!!!!!

ok.. after that we only go to a beach that didn’t have too good beach.. only a white sand beach with a pretty view to the ocean… hahahaha.. it is very pretty!!! it’s all pretty there.. if i have a chance, i will go there again.. maybe take three or more night there… get my self darker and darker and burn my skin by the sun… ahhh…. i like it so much…

hmmm… but remember, when you go on snorkeling, always take your heads up, be caution.. there might be jelly fish everywhere… i got bit by a little one, but it just hurts.. and you might see the big one, bigger than your head… so… just be careful…

we gone back to the inn.. play with the sharks on the preserved place.. and take a shower.. have a dinner.. and enjoy the last night on the dock… what a very beautiful day.. i don’t know hot to tell it in english… but… it just make me think to go back again other time…
the next day (i sleep at 02.30) i wake up at 07 and pass again the chance to catch the sunrise.. ahh… but is ok, because they said that it is cloudy… hihihi.. just another quote for my self. Then having or breakfast with a very delicious lobster, packing up our things.. and we have to go back to Jakarta…. I hate to feel this way.. I wan to stay a bit longer there….

but.. i have to get back… we get to the same fisherman boat (but it already fixed it’s engine), and having a trip for 6 hours without a problems… yeah.. if you said that the heat from the sun is not a problem or big ocean wave also not a problems… then there’s no problem at all when we got beck to Jepara using the boat. reaching the dock at jepara, the same bus has ready to take us back…
we get to Jepara first to see (and buy) some handy-craft, then go directly to Jakarta… we arrive at Cawang highway gate, Jakarta, at 04:00… ahh.. welcome back to Jakarta…. good bye vacation trip….

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