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[dannypranoto]

A Wonderful Trip to Santolo Beach - part 2

Monday, 26 May 2014 (Day 2 - Trip to Santolo Island)

In the morning, we started to wake up at 7 p.m and we had a breakfast which are pop mie's that we bought the day before. After we had finished our breakfast, we started to have a trip to Santolo Island! Anyway Santolo Beach was actually located in a small island called Santolo which is not really far from our house rent. Since we're going to a beach again, some of us were prepared using a swimwear.

Actually, as you can see from the photo above, which the place across the water was the Santolo Island, wasn't really far, so we could actually cross to that island only by swimming!

But some of us can't really swim and I myself who can swim also felt a little bit afraid, so we decided to rent a small boat to cross the water. It was really cheap! Only costs 2000 IDR/person :D

So, here it was! The gate to Santolo Beach!

The beach here is more calm than the beach we visited the day before. Besides, there are a lot of reefs here! And you can find lots of seaside creature such as small crabs, small fishes, and hermit crabs (they called it as "kumang").

Anyway, there was an incident while we were on the beach. As you can see from the photo above, there was a small thing flying above between Abraham and I. Wondering what it was? That was Abraham's mobile phones (Nokia Lumia)! Actually I was trying to throw a rock across the sea, while Abraham took a picture of the sea. But then I was so powerful that I didn't realize Abraham was behind me, so there it was, the mobile phones also being thrown away and finally fell into the water! Duh!

At first it the phone couldn't load anything, it freezed. I was really feeling sorry at that time, but I couldn't do anything! But then a miracle thing happened, the phone came back into life again! Wondering how Nokia was so strong that it was resistant of everything :p 

After that incident happened, we then decided to travel around the island by the seaside. Some of them are hunting for the hermit crabs.

Yeah that's all about our journey at the island.

Around 12 p.m, we decided to go back again for lunch. This time, we went for another place to eat near the seaside (not the Santolo Island's seaside). At that time it was so hot that I almost felt burned!  After lunch, some of us went back again to the seaside! This time we played into the sea by using the surfing board. Unlike the professional ones, we just surf using our body and waited for the wave to come over and surf back to the seaside again. Since I've never done this before, at first I was afraid and couldn't do the surf. But then after trying a lot of times, then I finally got the trick in doing it! Actually it was really simple, just swim to the sea by taking the board, and wait for the wave to come. The time before the wave breaks, quickly turn over and put your body on the board then there it is! Surfinggg! Haha.. actually it's a little bit stupid comparing to the actual surfing, but it's a lot of fun anyway, haha... We then played volley ball too :p until the sunsets! And it's really amazing! :D

Well, that's all. After finished playing at the seaside, we went back to the house rent again to take a bath and preparing for the BBQ!

Anyway, another incident was happened again during the preparation. The chicken that we bought in the morning at the market was so smelly! It's probably because we forgot to bring out the chicken from the car, so it didn't get any cool air. That's why it became stale. Anyway 70k IDR money just flew away~

There they were! Preparing for the BBQ place grill! While the others preparing for the food!

Here's our food being grilled! Yummy!

After finished eating, some of them went back to the house rent to sleep. While Michael, Abok, William, Ricky, and I still stayed discussing about some interesting topic. Since that all of us are single (what a coincidence huh?), so we talked about our favorite type girl, our career future, and our planning for married. Well, after having a long chit chat, we decided to go back to our house rent by midnight. At our house rent, we continue to have a wine that Michael bought from Jakata. But what a shame, he didn't take the corkscrew! But then a miracle things happened again! Abok could opened it just by using a skewer that we used for BBQ, haha... So, we shared the wine together and went to sleep. What a wonderful and tiring day!

Tuesday, 27 May 2014 (Day 3 - A way back to Bandung)

 The last day of our trip finally came. This time some of us, which is Andre, Gumarus, and William wake up in the morning and went back travelling to the beach again. While the others still including me still sleeping until 11 a.m! After that, we started packing and at 12 p.m, we checked out from our house rent and went out to have a lunch before going back to Bandung.

There we are, tiring as ever, almost like zombies, haha...

After we had our lunch, we continue our way to Bandung. Upon half of our way, we stopped to a restroom. And taking some photos again :D

Yeah! That's all of our trip to Santolo Beach! Anyway I was feeling grateful that I could joined this trip. It's really a lot of fun going together and it only costs us around 350k/person for 3 days 2 night! Can you believe that? Anyway, I'd like to thanks to William for the initiator of the trip, Michael for renting us the car, Stefan for driving us safely, and the others for the nice and unforgettable trip! I really wished that we could go on another trip again!

-- The Exorcism Club LOL

*All of the photos above are due to the courtesy of William Gumarus

[dannypranoto]

A Wonderful Trip to Santolo Beach - part 1

Hello again! Actually I really want to post this story as long as I came back from the trip two weeks ago (25-27 May 2014). Since that I had a deadline assignment and another untold trouble (one of them is because laziness --again >_<), so here is it!

In this trip, I went to Santolo Island with my friends who are taking the same major as I am at ITB. They are William Gumarus, Michael Kevin, Daniel, Andreas Bismo Wicaksono (Abok), Stefan Antonius, Andre Yonathan, Ricky, Abraham Wahyu Kurniawan. So we are 9 in total!

Saturday, 24 May 2014 (Day 0 - Shopping for supplies!)

In the morning, my friends (Ricky, Daniel, Abraham, and Abok) and I went to Sasana Olahraga Ganesha to play tennis. It's usual because every Saturday from 6 - 10 a.m, there are free court for STEI students to play. Since that we are from STEI so we are free to play there :D (As I had said before, universities students always seek for the FREE things as long it gives benefits such as me ^_^).

After that, Daniel and I went back to my house rent to get the list for shopping while the others went to Dago Market for buying the tools for BBQ. Since all of us didn't have the BBQ tools, so we must make it manually. Actually it's really simple, I got this idea while I became the committee of PPAB at KMB. All you need is wire netting, wood charcoal, 1/2 L of kerosene, and 8 blocks of bricks for holding the wire netting. 

After buying all the tools for making BBQ, we went to Michael's house rent before shopping at the Hypermarket. When we arrived, he was still sleeping as usual, so we need to wake him up and wait for him for around 30 minutes before started going. After that, we arrived at the Hypermarket and started shopping! :D

Yeah, that's Michael still sleeping and yawning :3

Here, we bought sausages, ball meats, corns, ingredients, and many other else (I forgot already, haha). After we finished shopping there, Abok and I went back while the others went to Riau Junction. Well that's all, long journey awaits tomorrow! 

Sunday, 25 May 2014 (Day 1 - A way to Santolo Beach)

 Early in the morning, around 4 a.m, I woke up and took a bath. After that, I continued my packing till 5 a.m. After that, the others came to my house rent and we're ready to set off! Woohooo... I was really excited that time!

We used one car which is Michael's Fortuner. I was given seat at the back seats (the combination was 2 front, 4 middle, and 3 back). At first I thought that the back seats wouldn't be so narrow as the middle seats, but then I was really wrong! The reality was I couldn't even stretch up a bit! It's because I was tall and the back seats is much more higher that the middle seats. Well then, this is just the beginning~

So upon our way to Santolo Beach, we had already been told that it will spend around 5 hours to the beach (It's around 150++km). During the first 2,5 hours, we didn't have much trouble in our way. But then for the next 3 hours, some of us include I myself started to feel landsick (I don't know what they called about it, but pretty much the same as seasick, since we're in the land, so I called it landsick, LOL) The path we are going was zig zag and it was really unpleasant! I felt that I was going to vomit that time, but anyway thanks to my friends who told us lots of interesting story during the way!

At 11.30 a.m, finally we arrived at the Santolo beach. That was a relief! Upon our arrival there, we started to search for the hostelry and we chose the Diar 3 hotel. The room is really wide so we decided to rent a room for the 9 of us. Actually it's really cheap (only costs about 50k IDR/person/day) and it includes 2 queen bed size, 1 sofa, 1 TV, 1 bathroom and AC (but actually there's no much cool effect since we're 9 people in a room).

After that, we went to have a lunch near the rent house. We ordered 3 big sized roasted-fish and one portion of squid. It costs around 330k.

That's it! Striving for food after a long way to Santolo Beach.

After we finished our lunch, we came back again to our house rent to rest for a while. Around 3 p.m, we started to go to the beach playing football!

At first the game was quite fun (actually I couldn't really play football). But then, it started to become more and more uncontrollable.

At first, we made a promised that we wouldn't get wet when we were in the house rent. But then, there is it! All wet without any word! Haha... anyway it's really fun but tiring. At 6 p.m, we finished playing at the seaside and came back to the house rent again to take a bath.

Here's our house rent, and that's our clothes hanging outside to be dried. haha... 

After all of us finished taking a bath, we went outside for dinner. 

And came back again to the house rent doing the crazy things :D Anyway, we watched a horror movie together (The movie was The Exorcist). Since that our group name called as 'The Exorcism' (Actually I really don't know how our group end up with a name like that, anyway it's another story, haha), so I decided to watch the movie together at the night. Well, the story is not really scary like any other horror story like the insidious, etc, since it was a 70's movie. Actually Michael who are quite afraid of watching horror movie had come to sleep at first. But then some of them started to sleep one by one before the movie finished until abok, william and I ended up with watching the entire movie. After watching the movie, we went to sleep by the midnight. That's all for the first day!

*All of the photos above are due to the courtesy of William Gumarus