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| Playing Kayak in the blue ocean |
A little story before going to Bali
On
Saturday, two weeks before visiting Luqman’s house he is a man who my best
friend from bali. In the evening I would buy ticket on station and the locket
still open when I was there and I decided to make a bull though then buy ticket
but unfortunately, I was too enjoying chatting until the locket had closed. So
I had to come back to station the day after.
Sunday,
that day was worse than before. A friend ringed my mobile and asked me.
Harun : is it true that Luqman is gone?
Me : who said?
Me : who said?
Harun : check on his facebook
Directly,
I checked his facebook and I got someone who informed to his timeline and told
that luqman is gone. Honestly it’s hard to believe, whereas luqman and I had
discussed about our voyage to his house the day before and he said he would
pick up at harbor however he is gone now. I tried to look for more evidence
begins to his girlfriend till his parents and everyone told that’s right luqman
is really gone.
It’s
not enough to say I’m so sorry. He is my best friend from senior high school
and we had so many experienced. I can still remember about his words “If we die tomorrow we will meet again in
heaven, insyallah”. It’s hard to forget about everything we did.
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| When we were still students |
A
photo above is the first time we were camping at mount medon. You know we were
always happy when we got togetherness such as Joking, laughing, cheering, even
sadness we felt those. Now is going to be changed without him there’s something
lost.
The Five Days on Journey
Something
likes Preparation, Cohesive team, Knowledge
and Necessary to overcome the obstacles.
They are what I need to have perfect adventure or maybe that’s all just
easy to say but hard to deed. Whatever, all depend on your own self and my
writing is going to tell you about my journey with my friends for five days,
Inform about public transformation, and maybe tips how to make your journey easier
and comfortable.
The Day One : Waiting for tomorrow
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| In the train |
More
than seven hours I was in train for destination lawang to banyuwangi. Maybe
that’s not tired enough when I could enjoy make a chat with people around. In
the middle night I just arrived in banyuwangi especially at BB station and
wanted to harbor but I wouldn’t go to harbor directly. I would like to enjoy
the environment of banyuwangi though so that night I couldn’t sleep. I waited
for tomorrow morning while looking for something new at banyuwangi. Did you
know? Janger or Damarwulan it’s a traditional theatre art which has been developed
since the 19th century in Banyuwangi. It is a combination of
Balinese, Javanese and local cultures. Javanese influences is in “Lakon” or stories as well as language
in dialogues.
The Day Two : Luqman’s House
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| At Harbor Locket |
With the stomach of famished I had to
go to harbor to get ticket for transmarine that morning. You know I don’t need
to stand a line or waiting long time because the service opens 24 hours and
everybody could into fery’s ship directly because every minute the ship will
across the sea.
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| Fery’s Ship : Java - Bali |
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| Seeing Scenery and Sunrise |
Then I just arrived at
gilimanuk or bali harbor you know I find people who offers to take me to
terminal and they said terminal is far, I suggest you don’t believe them
because actually the distance to terminal is so near. So after I walked to
terminal, my next voyage start from gilimanuk to singaraja and I would be taken
by minibus as like a photo bellow.
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| Minibus : Gilimanuk - Singaraja |
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| Singaraja’s River |
About 2 hours on the way
to singaraja. You know when the minibus stopped then I had to walk to look for
luqman’s house. Me and two my friends tried to keep positive thinking and maybe
we felt worry and don’t know where we could find it. But suddenly there’s a boy
approach us and said “are you luqman’s
friends? I’m his young brother. Let’s go, I will take you to his house”.
Finally we found luqman’s house in seririt, singaraja. His parents are not at
home that time but his young brother. So we made a chat with him while waiting
for his parents go home.
Not
too long of waiting his father came and maybe someone had informed him that we
were in his house. His father is very kind he gave us drink, food, snack and a
place to take a rest. In afternoon his mother came home while we were sleeping.
She let us sleep then we woke up and she tried to talk about her son (luqman
ashari) to us softly. I listened what her telling carefully even my heart
cried. You know that really touched my heart and honestly both of them is like angel
for me. At afternoon we prepared to visit cemetery where luqman was graved.
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| Cemetery that luqman’s laid to rest |
The
night had come and I decided to sleep in luqman’s house. Before sleeping his
parents talked about any topic to me and there’s much lesson of his stories
that I could take for my future. Alright, I had to sleep cause tomorrow I still
have the journey.
The Day Three : Meet My Senior
After slept in luqman’s house plus
had breakfast. I decided move to denpasar to visit another friend. His name is yusko. I never visited his house
before but I’m sure it will be interesting on the way. My trip to denpasar was
going by minibus.
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| Minubus : Singaraja - Denpasar |
The
transportation to sanur is not easy and expensive. So I decided to walk to
reach the sanur city but after got a few hundred meters I realized that sanur
is so far then I gave up so I sat while waiting for public transportation and
after almost an hour the transportation came. Because I don’t know so much
about sanur city so I asked to the driver to take me to the beach where is
located in sanur. And you know this public transportation would take me to
sanur or the beach where I want to go. And the driver took me to bali beach in
sanur.
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| Transportation ubung to sanur |
I paid it Rp.20.000 then the
driver took me until the beach where I asked to driver before. The driver said
that Bali beach is most beautiful beach in sanur. So I chose it. I arrived in
bali beach at 2 o’clock so I decided to stay in that beach with my friends while
we were thinking about idea where we could sleep that night another side we
could go exploring bali beach in sanur.
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| First time at Bali Beach |
Blast of the wind felt so strong
then such a hot day being so cool and that makes me want to swimming and I did.
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| Just swimming |
When
I was satisfied with swimming I decided to finish it and dried up my
underclothes but suddenly my friend challenged me to play the kayak. So I
accepted him.
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| Ade and I were playing kayak |
You
know that day was so awesome I got many experienced there and lost to feel time
the sunlight dies suddenly. In a hurry I looked for toilet to take a bath and
changed my clothes. That’s time to west prayer but how come I got solat with
dirty clothes. So I decided to buy sarong and I got it with price Rp.35.000
actually the price is Rp.30.000. I just don’t have skill in offering. lol
In the mosque after praying I
tried to text yusko my friend who lives in ubud, bali and finally he responded
my texting but he said the location is far whereas the transportation to be
there isn’t clear. Because the condition was going unclear so I decided to call
my senior and the name is Made someone who lives in sanur.
The first call he didn’t answer then a few minutes later he called back
and we had talked but he said my voice wasn’t clear so we decided to discuss by
message. After discussed we got deal that he would pick in the place that we
had fixed at 10 o’clock and with grateful finally I meet him and he invited me
and my friends also to dinner. How lucky I am, you know finally I ate and the
most wonderful he gave us inn or a place to sleep that night. So I didn’t need
worry about place for sleeping again and that night was incredible. Special thanks to Made (My Senior)
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| They are Prio, Me, Made and Ade |
The Day Four : Explore the beach
Woke up in early morning in the
house where was lent by mr.made. The matter is nothing food for breakfast. You
know it’s not like at home that my mom always dishes up yummy food on table every
morning, LoL. So I was just getting bread and mineral water for breakfast.
I decided to go to beach that day
because it’s bored just stay in the house despite in house there’s internet, television, movies, laptop and
etc. when I arrived in the beach I tried to invite my friends to make video of
documentary. Unfortunately, one of my friends got bad mood and the problem is
we couldn’t do this by two persons. However I wouldn’t just keep quiet I had to
move.
We decided to explore that beach
until we reach an end of the beach and we are three persons but one of us
wouldn’t join so we went explore only two persons they are me and prio. We had walked
with distance about 4 KM 49 mins but we didn’t find the end of beach yet.
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| I didn’t see the end of sanur beach |
So tired and thirsty on the hot
day and one of friends call us to come back because he had been waiting for us for
a long time. I thought there’s many reason to stop it and go back. So we
couldn’t continue our exploration so me and Prio would go back without find the
end of Sanur beach. How petty
And you know on the way we found
some arts of bali exclusive there are masks, statuettes and relief panels that
someone showed on edge of path. Check it out this picture.
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| Bali engraving |
Some
people said that motive of bali engraving is relic by the old kingdom of yore
and now had been processing to arts modern. The common feature of bali
engraving it had leaf motive, flower and fruit which its shape dome and
concave.
By the time evening I was at inn
and suddenly I got message from mr.made he told me that he would like to go
where he would had passed ubung terminal it means he gave a ride to ubung so
why not. Then I prepared my stuffs and mr.made was going to take my friends and
me to ubung. You know I had to go home that night. So I arrived in ubung
terminal at night and I started to look for transportation which purpose to
harbor.
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| Ubung to Gilimanuk |
I got this minibus and paid it
30.000 start ubung to gilimanuk (Harbor) about 4 hours on the way to gilimanuk.
I didn’t feel really tired when I was in the bus you know why? because there’s
a girl inside LOL. Her name is Lilli and I’m going to tell about Lilli on the
day five.
The Day Five : Round Table at Ship
Honestly, on the day five there’s
not long story. The tired body and sleepy cause haven’t slept a night made me
so weak but I still have a little story when I was at ship with a foreign in
round table and it’s a girl her name is Lilli I forget what country she’s
coming from but she said her country in Europe. Now I am going to tell you what
she told to me.
The first I met her in the minibus the night before and we got same
direction to gilimanuk, you know she gave me a cute smile to me then I asked
her where was she going and she said she was going to Jogja. Oh man you know
she was alone in the middle night at crime area. I mean How dares her. She said
she had attended an event while visiting bali island she was with two friends
in bali before and when wanted go back to jogja her friends would be going back
by plane and she didn’t had money enough to go by plane. So two of her friends
left her and she just could go by road transport and ship.
In the day five at ship we found round table we sat there while making a
chat. I was wondering when she said that she is student in jogja and she have
been learning about traditional music of Indonesia.
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| Me, Ade, Lilli, Nanta |
I think she likes every something new and I remember when she heard the
new thing in her mind as like Dangdut, Pocong, Kuntilanak etc directly she was
going to write down it at her mini book and maybe she would look for more
information on internet. She also gave me her drawing at sheet of piece but
frankly I didn’t know what kind of drawing is that.
Wish she knows that I like drawing
too I tried to borrow her pen then drawing. You can see at the photo that I was
holding a pen and sheet of piece that’s the way I am drawing. Anyway I gave her
my drawing, so I got hers and she got mine it means we both had memento.
Alright guys, I think enough for this adventure and I apologize about my writing
or something else and maybe I will do better next time. So the last I say thank
you for reading and I have a question for you.
Do you believe that you
will find your destination when you are lost?
