Do you have friends whom you know from a trip? Well, I have, loads of them and I love each every one.
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| Me, and my fellow Tidungers |
As you all might know, I fall deeply in love with travel thingy,
backpacker, flashpacker, whatever you all name it. About 3 years ago, I joined
a trip to Tidung Island, a tiny part of the awesome Thousand Island (Pulau
Seribu). From the trip I've met a very chaotic group (in a good way) and we
all became mates, until now. Tidungers, that's how we call our group. Though we
don't have a routine meeting agenda, but somehow we manage to keep in touch,
whether it's through FB, twitter or recently, by WhatsApp. Last September Me, 5 others Tidungers and 1 additional pax went on a silly trip to Lombok, and
surprise surprise, I'm the EO.
Started with Me passing info about Garuda Indonesia's flight promo
during our meeting at Pisa Cafe, and voila at that moment 5 of us bought bought
a return ticket CGK - LOP for 850K per person. Cheap? Hell it is! Excited, we informed it in to group messenger, one of our friend interested in join our trip, so he also bought the ticket.
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| See you again Jakarta! |
The trip start from 05 September 12, flight schedule 1810. Traffic made
us (Me, Kiki and Oom Bekti) reach the airport quite late. Because of it, one of us, Oom Bekti got an
upgrade to Executive Class, Lucky ba*tard! But he was nice and gave the seat to
me, so i can taste the "front seat". The flight run smoothly, the
meal was delicious, the flight attendants were nice, what an enjoyable flight.
We arrived at Lombok's new International Airport in Praya around 2130 local
time. A friend of Ombek
(that's how we called him) pick us up at the airport and drove us to our guest
house for the night. We stayed at Ressa Guesthouse, located in Senggigi. The
place is quite nice, and the most important, cheap! We met one additional
member on our trip, Emmy, there. She already arrived in Lombok this afternoon.
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| Hello there Lombok! |
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| Afternoon stroll |
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| To Sendang Gileeee |
The following day I woke up early
as the itinerary for this day was tight. We're planning on visit the famous
Tiu Kelep, which located in North part of Lombok then
heading to Gili Trawangan from Bangsal. There were we, 6 adventurer from Jakarta and 1 annoying person from Semarang (LOL) try to conquer Lombok by
ourselves! We rent an APV with no driver for couple of days, and none of us are
locals. So we depended on Gmap and ask the locals for direction. First
destination of the day, Tiu Kelep, that's the plan, yet we ended up
in Sendang Gile waterfall *LOL*. This is when my friends start to call me
"EO Brengsek", hahaha. FYI, though "EO brengsek" has a rude
meaning, but it was only for fun, so no hard feeling!
