VISIT INDONESIA: Instagramable Jakarta

HI!  

So, this is might my last post for a while, but I hope I can post up much more posts. After all, thank you for reading my nonsense blog! I will work hard to make this blog better and better than before. :)

Okay! Let's get into the post. This post is quite interesting for you who like photography. Last week, I went to one of the unveiled museum in Jakarta. Well, it is not a historical museum type, it is more like contemporary, modern museum. My partner was inspired to come here from a music video of an Indonesian vocal group, GAC. Well, you might see the music video here. Btw, their voices are amazing! Check them out!

Alright! The place itself named Art:1 New Museum, located at Jl. Rajawali Selatan Raya No. 3, Jakarta Pusat, Special Capital Region of Jakarta 10720. It is near JIEXPO, Kemayoran. It is not only a museum, but also a gallery. Last time, I only got to visit the gallery. The gallery it self was fantastic! It displayed many talented Indonesian young artists. I belief they are still young (since they don't write any bio-data of the artists). Here, you can also buy the artwork. They are amazing, but I could not afford it though. LOL. Here is some of the artworks:

Most attractive and the detail was impressing!

My favorite artwork

The main reason we came here were we want to have a good instagram picture. LOL. Instagram nowadays became a competitive social media. People strive to post a really great pictures slash photography skills. Since, we watch the review of the music video that praise a lot the shooting location, we would like to come there. So, here are our few instagram picts:

 

Well, that's all what I wanted to tell and show you. Hope you enjoyed it! It is free to look around the gallery, so you may explore your photography skills as long as you like! It is still a hidden space, so not many people came here. I really love it here! I would like to see the museum soon!! 

So, untill my next holiday, I'll see you guys soon! 
Goodbye for now. :)

XOXO,

VISIT INDONESIA: Bogor Short Adventure Getaway

Hi there!

My Adventure Team Mates!

So, today I'm going to tell you my little adventure in Bogor last week. On Saturday, my friends and I went to Sentul, which is an area near Bogor, West Java. It took us 4 hours drive from Jakarta to Sentul. Well, actually it is not that long, but we stopped at the rest area quite long. Sentul is famous with elite neighborhood, Jungle Land (a kind of theme park), and Pasar Ahpoong. But, this time, I did not go to any of those places. We went to Curug Barong, a hidden waterfall in Sentul. One of my friend, really wanted to see waterfall. Actually, we were planning to go to Bandung to see another waterfall, but since a few shortcoming, we cancelled the trip to Bandung, and going to Sentul/Bogor instead.

Curug means waterfall in Sundanese language. So, Curug Barong means Barong Waterfall. Barong in Indonesia, is a kind of popular mythology character especially in Java and Bali. But, I don't have any idea of why the waterfall named after it. Any ways, finding the waterfall is a thrill adventure to all of us. Oh, I forgot to mention that I went with 4 friends of mine. They are my high school friends. The trip went smoothly until we arrived at the front gate of Jungle Land. Then, we faced an extreme narrow path! We have to pass a narrow gangway in some unidentified place on the GPS. We have to hike those path for about 45 minutes I guess. We also saw a lot of bikers on our way to the waterfall. While on our way, we saw an woman 'bule' fell down from her bike. We asked her if she needs a help, but she is perfectly fine and continued to bike to the top. Cool woman! 

To break-up those long writing...

At around 10 AM, we have arrived at the parking lot of the waterfall. The sun was perfectly striking through our skin! It was damn hot! FYI, Bogor area is known for the city of rain, so it should not be that hot. Thanks to global warming, it was freakin' hot! Plus, I wore a wrong ootd at that time. :( From the parking lot to the entrance of the waterfall took us for 10-15 steps. HAHA! Then we have to walk up and down the hill to get to the waterfall. Going to the waterfall was quite okay, but coming back to our car was extremely tiring. Plus we wore sandals when we went back to our car. Nevertheless, it was very fun! :D

This place is a secret tourist destination. But, there are some local tourists that have come to this waterfall. Curug Barong cannot be apart from Leuwi Hejo. Leuwi means pool to take a bath (tempat pemandian in Indonesian) and Hejo means green or hijau in formal Indonesian. The water from the waterfall run through to the river and it is used by the local. The waterfall itself does not look like other waterfall. Since, the waterfall is quite short. But, it is unique, since it looks like a water park pool. But I do like it here. The water was cold and it perfectly match with the sunny weather at that time. Especially if you come with your friends! The waterfall looks like this:

 

Yes, it is the waterfall.

Oh! There is a monk up there!

Blissful day

Unlike most people say about Indonesian water, this waterfall is almost perfect! It has the clear water, quite clean, since there are some people that are still smoking in this beautiful scene and throw away their cigarettes in the bushes! I DO NOT GET THE IDEA OF SMOKING IN THIS KIND OF PLACE. What a freak! :S 

By the way, if you are interested to come here, I'll let you know how to down below. If not, just skip this part, and see my other adventure, which is culinary adventure in Bogor here.

How to visit Curug Barong:

1. If you come from Jakarta, just use GPS and search for Jungle Land. It is just a regular way if you go to Bogor. Jungle Land is located in Sentul, just before the exit to Bogor. 
2. If you have already found the front gate of Jungle Land, do not go inside the Jungle Land. When you see the gate, turn left, and you will see a small path.
3. Then follow the path all the way up until you see the banner of Curug Barong and Leuwi Hejo. Ask the locals if you are not sure. Oh by the way, you might have to across a terrible bridge. It feels like you are riding a roller-coaster. LOL. But, your car will be just fine. ;)

There you go! Have fun there! Don't forget to share your experience if you come here. :D 
Oh! By the way, not only this waterfall that is located here, but there are some other waterfall that you might like to visit. Also, another famous location is Gunung Pancar. It is a pine tree forest, and it was good also. I've never been there, but my other friends does. So, if you prefer forest than waterfall, you might check that out. 

Note for anyone who will visit this area, first there will be no signal. Second, wear light (in term of weight) outfit or use a swimming suit if you want to swim there. Third, bring a water-resistant bag or you put your belongings into a plastic bag then put it on your bag. Fourth, don't forget to bring sunblock, towel, underwear and cloth, and camera! :D

Well, that's all!! Have fun there!
See you soon on my next post! 
Bubyeee

Bonus picture! THANKS FOR READING!

XOXO,

VISIT INDONESIA : Eco-Tourism in Pramuka Island

HEY THERE!  Today, I'm going to tell and promote one of Indonesian's island, Pramuka Island in Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands Province), Jakarta. This is based on my own experience and reference.  Hope you enjoy it!  

So, last year on October, I've just having my field trip with my Eco-Tourism classmates to Pramuka Island in Kepulauan Seribu, Jakarta. From the city, we could take a boat or a ferry to the island. There are some ports you could choose, which are Marina Port in Ancol or Muara Karang Harbour in Muara Karang. But, for vacation purposes, I recommended to take ferry at Marina Port, Ancol. If you want some adventures, you may take a big boat from Muara Angke. You will witnesses the "brown" sea along with some plastics during your travel from Muara Angke. This is REAL and serious problem with Jakarta. 

By the way, we were going there to have a field trip and experience to be a soft eco-tourist. Please noted that you might experience better vacation here than I've experience. Because, first I took a traditional big boat from not so nice harbour, Muara Angke. Second, I have a limited time to enjoy all the facilities due tight schedule of our itinerary. You could ask me if you need some guide and I would like to help you, because it can be sort of training for my future job. ;)

So, the 3,5 hours of suffering and hot trip ended, we've arrived at the dock of Pramuka Island. We went straight to our accommodation to put our things in our room and got a little time to relax. We met our roommates and get to know each other, since I went with some seniors who are taking this course also. 

After short break, we had our lunch. The restaurant were very uncomfortable, because of what? ANTS! BIG RED ANTS!! (remembering that makes me creeps). I HATE ANTS! LIKE SERIOUSLY. :S So, if you guys hate ants, please stay away from the sands near the tree. Always bring your bug-free lotion. After the lunch, we got some short briefing from the local guide there, who was helping us through our days in Pramuka Island. 

The first activity we did here were seeing the sanctuary of sea turtles, which is Hawskbill. Their home was destroyed because of trash, contaminated sea, etc. Here, there is a place where they raise the hawksbill from an egg until they became strong enough to survive in the ocean. The place was not really big and does not seems like a sanctuary, but it does help the species. Across the sanctuary, there is a coast, where we could plant small mangrove. It was also one action to help the sea abrasion, breaking the waves so it won't go through the houses near there, etc. The point is it was to help the environment to be more healthy and reducing the global warming. Then, we also got to cultivate corals there. The corals was still young and small, but they implant it and then we got a chance to put it at the ocean. When, it's bigger it could be a beautiful coral reefs, where those thousands of fish could live in. It was such a good deed. :D We are let to have a break after those activities. The island has not much villagers or visitors, so at the evening it tends to be quiet. But, the island has everything from AC to street foods stall. It was a nice day. You could have diving near the cottage. We ate dinner at the same place with the one we ate for lunch. We also have a short briefing and then we went straight to our room. It was quite exhausting, but some of us were talking and playing around outside the cottage. 

Me, planting the mangrove ^^

the "baby" coral... ^^v

2nd DAY! We went for snorkeling today! Before we went for a snorkeling, we went to the sanctuary of Jakarta's iconic animal, which is an eagle. The species name is Haliastur Indus or Brahminy Kite or Elang Bondol. It was ironic that the icon of this city and country were almost gone. They were used to be hunt and sell illegally. They were only few of them alive in this area. It was very sad to know it. Before we went here, we don't know that this famous eagle were living near us. We don't know their name, we used to call it "elangnya kacang garuda" (the eagle of garuda peanuts). Garuda peanuts is a name of a peanut snacks in Indonesia. There, visitor should not make much noises, because it can disturb the birds there. Not only a sanctuary for birds, they also raised abused dogs, cats, monkeys, etc. But, not all of them were there. There, we could see the pieces of whale skeletons that was stranded and found dead. :(

Elang Bondol

the whale skeleton

After that visit, we were set off to the sea! We headed to a beach near the sanctuary. There, we learn how to snorkel. It was my first experience and what it feels like? hmmh. I would say it was salty! I was like eating a full spoon of salt. But, it was fun! I'm quite liking it. I would like to do it again some day! Indonesia has a lot of snorkeling destination and I aimed to saw it. The most memorable thing is I saw the cute clown fish a.k.a NEMO!! It was a cute little thing alive. We had our lunch at that beach. After lunch we headed to the sea of nowhere. We were really snorkeling there. IT WAS FUN!!! But, I can't really see what's inside cos I wore a life jacket. But, it was still greatt! :D After sometime in the sea, we headed back to the cottage, but we stopped by to see our coral that we planted yesterday and we also went to see a shark sanctuary near a restaurant there. Then, we headed to the cottage. We were so tired, that some of us slept on the boat. LOL. 

Finally, we took a bath! It was a salty salty day! our hair has this beachy wave. LOL. We cleanse our swimsuit and clothes from the sand. It was the worst part from swimming in the sea. Hahaha. After we took a bath, we have our dinner. After dinner, we have a briefing and we got to know each other more. We had game, where one table had to memorize all of name of people sitting there. It was quite fun, and yeah we really go to know each other names at least. I was really tired, when I got back at our rooms. I did some packing before I slept. Then, I went to sleep. 

3rd Day! We are going back to the city today! It was sad, because I'm going to suffer hot sunny days on the boat. BUT THANK GOD! It does not happen! YEAY! We got in an empty boat this time. Only us that got in the boat. It was hot and I can't sleep at the boat, so I'm bored. We saw cockroaches. It was terrifying for the girls. LOL. We went abroad early in the morning, at around 7.30 AM. We arrived at the Muara Karang at aroung 11 AM. We were separated with the others there. Some of them lives in Jakarta, so they went back to their home straightly. Some of us, including me, hop onto the bus and went back to Lippo Karawaci. When we arrived at UPH, our journey ended. Thank you for the adventures! :D 

free spaces on the boat!

        

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL EDITION!

HI THERE! :D

In this entry, I'm going to blab all about my Christmas this year! 
Hope you enjoy it!! ;;)

ONE. My mom bought two Christmas tree this year. Last year, she sell her pink christmas tree so, she bought another tree for this year. This time is not pink but, green and white. Like last year, she decorated her trees with those cuties ornaments and of course Hello Kitty! Have you guys seen my mom's pink christmas tree last year? Anwayssss.. It's awesome! :D Really likeeee it! (Y)

The White Christmas Tree with Pink Accents

The Green Christmas Tree with Red Accents

 Which one is better? :p

TWO. My mom joined Christmas decorating competition! All we have to do is decorating our shop or houses. So, we joined! We did some Christmas decorations shopping. It was fun! We decorate our shop very beautifully. I hope we could win it. The prize is a generator + installment for free! :D The announcement is on the 14th of January!! Can't wait. *crossingfingers*

Front View

1st floor view (clearer view)

THREE. Having an early Christmas dinner with the girls. Well, not a really Christmas dinner, but we can say it like that. Finally, got to see my OZ babes! We had a huge dinner tho, so we could call it as a Christmas dinner. Nice to see you, girls! 

FOUR. Going to church. My church has changed quite much. Now, it's full AC! woo-hoo!! And then, my uncle became a prodiakon (someone who gave out church bread (?)). It was the biggest surprise of the changes made! HAHA.

FIVE. Have a full lunch on Christmas Day with my grandpa, dad, mom, uncle, and brother. Thank God I'm full! Happy Merry Christmas, tummy. :p

SIX. This is the last one. Made a Hello Kitty Christmas Flower bouquet for my grandma and cousin. 

Pink Flower Bouquet

White Flower Bouquet

Red Flower Bouquet

Thank you guys for reading! If you like the pictures above, leave the comment section bellow! Happy holidays!! :D

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