Jakarta is the special capital region of Indonesia, and the most populous place in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. There are many attraction that you can find in there but mostly is museum, hangout place, night market, mall, etc. And today we will talk about ''The Thousand Island", one of the nature attraction near Jakarta. The Thousand Island consisting of almost 128 small island, including residence, resort, private, and empty island. There are two ways to go to thousand island, the first is using feri from Muara Angke port, and the second is speed boat from Marina, Ancol port with more expensive rate.
Nowadays, many small tour offer sharing package with cheap rate to explore Indonesia. One of the most visited destination is the thousand island. For the cheap rate, try visit the Pramuka Island, Tidung Island, Harapan / Kelapa Island, Pari Island. And for resort you should try Putri Island and Spa Island. I have visited these two islands a few years ago, and for this time I'll visit Harapan / Kelapa Island.
The trip took 3 1/2 hours from Jakarta with feri, after reached Harapan Island port, I use small boat to reach the home stay. Ah for today trip I use the Nugrozz Tour Indonesia package, the rate is Rp. 330.000 including home stay with air conditioner, meal, transport, snorkeling, bbq. I think the package is the cheapest one that I can found. ^_^
They are the participants of this trip, two of them is my friends. We are lucky, this trip's participant only 7 peoples, so the home stay and the boat not crowded.
I took the picture with our guide, his name is Eko. He is really outgoing person, and he tell us many information about each island that we visit today and his stories when become tour guide.
We arrived at home stay around 12 am, we rest a bit to have a lunch and pray time, after that we prepare to go snorkeling. For today, I use my muslim swimming suit. I prefer to use the swimming suit than t-shirt when we do snorkeling.
Ah, here is my friend. Her name is Oktriyani. She is one of my friends in senior high school that still been in contact with me. We plan this trip together for our golden week holiday.
We reach the snorkeling spot in half an hour, it's time to getting ready for having fun. I use the life jacket cause I don't have any experience to swim in the sea, well if you can swimming and diving, I think you wouldn't need to use it.
Took some picture when we are in open sea, this is my first time snorkeling, so I am still not used to it. I drink many sea water here. -_-'
This my under water picture, the water is very clear.
Pose with starfish that was taken from under the sea.
We snorkeling for around one hour, but after that most of all the first timer become dizzy and nausea. I don't know why though. The below picture looks like dried fish. Ha..ha...ha...
The next stop is this island, but I forgot the name. This an empty island, but they used it as meeting place for a small boat, and food and drink vendor tent.
To relieve my nausea, I buy a hot coffee with fried bakwan and tofu. You can buy coconut too here.
We took a lot of picture here. If you want to continue the snorkeling you can do it in this island, but I didn't.
There are only two water sport in this place, well this is only a small empty island. There is a banana boat and donut boat. Cause I am using contact lens, I prefer the donut boat. They usually charge you for Rp. 35.000,- but we got a discount for only Rp. 30.000,- .
This sport is fun enough, I think we ride this for around 15-20 minutes.
After this, the next stop is the white island. Do you know why the call it white ?
Because the island only with white sand and without a single tree. And do you know, this place is only arise from morning until afternoon, our guide said, it's around 9 am - 5 pm. After that this island will sink back.
We took a picture together with our travel banner.
This is my friends, we took our picture together.
After this spot, the next place we should go is Perak Island, but when we arrived, the island really crowded for tourists, that's why we go straightly to Bira Island for watching the sunset.
Hmmm....I just hope I can own this kind of ship. Amin.
Ah, I forgot to introduce you all, below is the owner of our home stay. He assist our tour guide to take many picture of our trip. He share a lot of stories of many island, since he was raised in this place, one of them is the ghost island. (hii....I am really afraid of the ghost story)
And he said, he often found corpses. He said if they found corpse without identity, they will immediately bury the corpses but if they found the identity, they will return the corpses to their family.
Pose with sunset.
This is my first time seeing the sun sinking into the sea. (haa...ha...ha....)
After the sun was set, we go back to our home stay. Actually we should have a bbq together, and walking around the island, but we were really tired. We just fall a sleep after dinner, but they woke us up for eating the fish that they prepared for bbq.
The next day, we woke up around 4.30 am to watch the sunrise. We walk around 15 minutes from our home stay to the spot but the weather is cloudy, it's a pity we can't see the sun rise.
A beautiful sun that always shine our live everyday.
After watching the sunrise we walking around the village for a bit, and took some picture. Below is my picture in the welcome gate.
Another pics again.......
We arrived at home stay around 7 am, and have a breakfast together. At 9 am, we depart to visit turtle breeding ground , I didn't take a picture though. Below is the mangrove tree that growing around the breeding area.
We come to the Harapan port around 11 am, but our ship haven't come yet, so we decided to sitting around the food mart area in the island. And you know, as we sitting around the gazebo, I meet my senior high school friend that has holiday in this island too. It's really coincidence, we haven't meet each other for around 8-9 years. I am really happy, we can meet again after so long, of course we don't forget to took a picture together.
Around 1 pm, our ship come. We really lucky to have a seat at captain room, thanks to our guide though. ^_^
With this, my holiday is finished. See you in my next trip project.
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