Rough-thing (baca: rafting)

A very good escape yang berbeda dari kemarin-kemarin. Rafting! Saya putuskan untuk refreshing sejenak setelah lulus probation, bounding with nature, road trip,self-reflection AND It was fun, tidur di tenda, nyanyi, maen kartu, jelajah sungai dan got sunburned. Ini kali pertama saya mencoba rafting. Bagusnya cuaca sangat mendukung waktu itu dan arus sungai nggak terlalu deras. Hellooow! I am a newby. Itu aja udah ngos-ngosan, sih. Saya dan teman-teman berangkat pagi jam 7 dari kantor. Sengaja meeting pointnya di kantor biar gampang. Ada 2 mobil dan perjalanan ditempuh kurang lebih 6 jam. Sepanjang jalan kami isi dengan obrolan yang nggak berfaedah (mostly), puter playlist bergantian dari HP dan ngemil. Setibanya di sana, tenda-tenda sudah disiapkan lengkap dengan tikar dan kasurnya. Paket yang diambil sudah termasuk rafting, makan dan tenda. Pokoknya cuma nyetor ke teman Rp.600K per orang untuk 2 hari 2 malam.

Yang saya suka dari tempat ini adalah pengunjung nggak terlalu padat, suasana yang rindang dan tenda kami pas berada di depan sungai gitu. Jarang-jarang dapat pemandangan kaya gini’ kan?. Hari pertama kami habiskan dengan ngobrol, makan, ngopi, nge-games, jalan-jalan sekitar lokasi wisata dan rafting. Malamnya lanjut main game lagi dan barbequean. Sumpah kocak, sih. Bener-bener have fun pokoknya. Keesokan harinya, saya sempetkan bangun pagi dan berjalan ke sungai untuk meditasi. Dengar aliran air sungai itu rasanya menenangkan banget. Ditambah dengan pemandangan sekitar yang serba ijo. Abis meditasi, maen air bentar sambil mikir gw pengen punya rumah yang belakangnya sungai dan greens. Trus sarapan, mandi dan bergegas untuk ke tempat wisata selanjutnya, Jembatan Gantung Situ Gunung. Spot wisata ini lagi happening dan karena kebetulan masih daerah Sukabumi, yah nggak ada salahnya berbelok arah dulu.

ONE PICTURE ONE STORY: My first Shocking Trails

“Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world”

The very first place I found my self got a punk’d Trip !

My friends and I went to Tanralili lake on Saturday afternoon , Sept 26 2015. We started from Makassar around 6pm by scooter. None of us knew that place. We’re totally blind about that. My friends laughed at me because I wore a kinda “princess shoes”. Then Dede (one of my friends , took me to his house to lend me his shoes). They told me that we were about to HIKE !

well, okay ! HIKE ! ( not really interested in this tbh)

In the middle of the trip ( around 90 minutes), something went wrong with the scooter. It had a flat tire. Luckily, there was a workshop around us. It’s getting dark, while we repaired the scooter, we met a group of teenagers in that place. Ahmad adressed them , said Hello and asked them where they would going and they said ” Tanralili Lake”. GOOD then. We were really excited to join with them. They are  civil engineering students from Makassar State of University. A few minutes later, we  continued our trip.

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I gazed at my watch, it’s already 11 pm. Before getting this lake, we should registered all of the stuff we bring and our personal data. It’s quite tight now, because a few months ago, there was a man drowned in  the lake.

While my friend wrote down our group’s name , I asked some people how long it gonna takes to reach the lake.Some of them said” it takes 50 minutes”, “we need 2 hours”, even one of them said it takes 7-8 hours”

O Crap. !

I took a deep breath. Frankly, I am  not kind of a mount climber, I prefer beach to mountain. I thought that the place was easy enough to reach- – Park scooter, walk for a minute and VOILA – get the place. I was getting a little obsessive-compulsive.Seriously,I was terribly WORRIED. I calmed my self to hike. No choice. I wore jeans, no jacket at all.

12 am – 3:30 am -hiked Tanralili trails, up and down hills,walked through the rocky mountains in the middle of the darkness. It’s really remote place,no signals,yes of course No WI-FI !

Briefly, We reached the lake at 3:30 am, we set up our tents. I woke up in the morning and zipped my tent and looked at the beautiful scenery around me. It’s totally made my day. It’s extremely out of what I thought before , WOWWIWOW I made it.

(Hit mountains is not in my bucket list. I drawn myself if somebody asked me to hike.)*whispering *

Good morning Hikers, cheers for a good day !
Good morning Hikers, cheers for a good day !

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Tanralili lake is like  Ranu Kumbolo in Java, Indonesia. Tanralili is located in “Desa Lengkese, Gowa regency, South Sulawesi”, foothill of Bawakaraeng Mt.,meanwhile Ranu Kumbolo is in foothill of Semeru Mt.  The view is so stunning, adorable, really magical with fresh air, fresh water, feel  the excitement of trekking through the outdoors.

Saturdate, Saturnite, Saturawesome ! I’ve been fortunate, partly thanks to my travel mates. I’m sure that everyone on the trail goes home with an experience they never anticipated. I’m fucking feel that.