Peucang Island, Ujung Kulon
Prologue
It's already dawn at Jakarta, Y & V has done packing their stuffs in. What are they doing? Is it a getaway? Yes, they are preparing for a trip to Peucang Island in Ujung Kulon with Y's college friends. They have finished their thesis defense.
Time was showing that it's almost 6 PM, off they go!
Starting point was from a kinda popular tech university in West Jakarta, using the freeway and jump out at Serang Timur's freeway gate in about 2 hours. Without knowing any guide, they are depending on others review in google. They found Komar, a Sunda Jaya's guide (+6281806181209), trip organizer for Peucang. It's already 1 AM, but he's still on and agreed to met them. Stopped at his guest house, the travelers were sleeping over.
At sunrise, Komar's showing up to tell them about the bill they have to pay before the trip. It sums up like this in IDR:
| Description |
IDR |
| Boat |
2.800.000 |
| Guide/Chef |
300.000 |
| Room |
600.000 |
| Official
Ticket |
200.000 |
| Cidaon Tour |
135.000 |
| Karang Copong
tour |
135.000 |
| Tanjung Layar
Tour |
180.000 |
| Small Boat |
250.000 |
| Snorkle |
200.000 |
| Parking
Fee/day |
200.000 |
2 Nights and 3
Days Total: 5.400.000 |
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Divided with 9 peoples, sums up around IDR 600.000/pax. Komar has said that we came at the right time because it was a Wednesday morning. Many tourists has gone home. Peak time are on Weekend which sometimes tourist that hasn't booked their place like us can't rent any room at the island. At 7.34 am, Y & V were already set on the boat and sailed away.
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| DON'T TIE ME MR. GREY! oh wait, you're not. |
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| "Seats" |
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| Views from the roof ----- before getting burned. |
It's a 21 x 4,5 meters boat with engine room and captain at the middle. Y & V was on the front of the boat with options to be seated at the back. The sun was hot, but it didn't really felt that way if we hide under the shade of the roof.
Those lovely calm ocean amazed us for 3 hours until we've arrived at the Peucang Island.
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| The Dock! |
The beach scenery was that great, so calm and beautiful. The sand was very soft and clean. The water is clean. Y can't hold those temptations. He ran into the water without thinking twice, but suddenly he felt something! Y came out and saw some small dots on his skin. Turned out that he was stung by tiny jellyfish, not harmful, just itchy.
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| Tempted 'eh? |
When the travelers going to explore the island. Iyan, our guide, said that Peucang is filled with wild animals such as monkeys, deer and hogs. So we must be cautious with our things if we're going to do snorkeling. Another thing, we were ordered not to bring any plastic bags because the monkeys will lurk and trying to steal it.
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| Animals - No, not maroon 5 song |
Soon after that, the travelers took a sunset tour at Karang Copong. I forgot exactly how far the distance was, but the single trip took us around 45 minutes from our villa and an hour to get back because twas dark after sunset even with flashlight on our hands.
"It just like mother nature is showing us her true face."
V, 29.10.14
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| (Star) Trekking |
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| Believe me this was sooooooo hallucinating (no we don't use drugs-at that time) |
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| Checkpoints! |
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"Lemme jump! Lemme jump and dieded!"
Y before being slapped by V |
Back to the room, it's already 18.50. Everybody was starved. Even we've got a chef on boat, but we preferred to cook our dinner together. Our decision was right, it's more fun and satisfying!
The electricity can be used only in 18.00 - 00.00 so we are using shifts for charging our devices. There are a WiFi at Peucang, you can just ask the resident for the password because it's free. WiFi usage was following the electricity policy, no signal after 00.00 .
Actually this policy is awesome, urged us to enjoy the nature without distracted by phones yet still giving us the chance to tell our family the status of our trip.
The night is calm, only sounds of our laughter and waves could be heard. This is a perfect getaway!
next post, Day 2.
