Genting Highlands (Day 2)

Day 2, May 13, 2010

Morning...
We were late to sleep last night after browsed for sleeper train ticket (none left) and decide what we should do this morning,,Woke up at 4.30 am and take a shower around midnight heheheh, Malaysia time is an hour later than Indonesia (Piss Chan...no more argue...heheheh), so fajr time approximately at 5.30 pm. No longer after that, Chan's alarm were ringing, buit nothing happened...Wake Up Bro...let's start our journey...

We left the hostel after have a Shubuh and packed our belonging, Nice place...again he said..hahahah, we walk towards Chow Kit Road in the morning (take a pic...as always) and go straight to face PWTC LRT station directly to Bukit Djalil. Most of the roads are still empty, lights are still turned on, good scene for horror movie..... ^_^. We directly go to the counter upon arrival, booked 2 packs tickets for Genting Highland at @ RM 9,5 (for bus and skytrain) and also booked the sleeper bus ticket for Kuala Lumpur to Hat Yai at the sameday for @RM 60 provided by Express Bas Konsorsium, the bus accompany by portable TV (Movie, video and music), adjusted chair (can be set as sleeper position as excecutive class on airplane), blanket and AC. No food provided. The bus depart from KL around 10,00 pm and arrived at Hatyai on 07.30 am. (Long Journey awaiting)....

But, currently..LET'S GO TO GENTING.....


Unfortunately, we couldn't chase the first bus to Genting since we have to put our lugage on the storage first. But, lucky for us that the ticket can be used for the next departure, wich is an hour from the last one. We have a breakfast at Bukit Djalil and again,,,,, Chandra ordering Nasi Lemak..(NLFC ; Nasi Lemak Fans Club) ^_^The bus came sharply, there's no quota for being departed just Be on Time (two thumbs up for this). We take some picture with the Go Genting bus...heheheh..as always....(pending poto from Chan's BB)

Huhuhu, Chan's lost his BB...
so do our prestigious pics on those device halah.....but i have some plus googling via net.

The trip taken approximately an hour from Bukit Jalil. We stopped at the station and continuing the journey to the Peak (Genting Highland) by the sky ride. Ticket were included on our bus ticket. It was take a long time riding the sky ride. From excite to desperate...hahahahha.. it almost vertical, on ecliptical method for sure. We have some pics and lost huhuhuhu...it's okay. it give us a reason to revisit this place someday =)

Genting highland subjected to the separate place to play. Being placed for anyone who want to escape from their routinity. Gambling, Shopping, laughing, flying entertaining games and playing stuffs lay down over this area. Centralised into integrated building stated at the peak of Genting. Named as Genting Highland. If Peterpan don't wanna leave Wonderland, maybe you will do the same at this place. Cold weather as compliment....



We have tried Flying Coaster, cost RM 10 per person,
Experience an Asian first: a hang-gliding roller coaster. Swoop, twist and zoom round turns and drops! With the Flying Coaster, you'll "fly" with a totally unobstructed view of Genting and its beautiful scenery.

The Flying Coaster is Genting's new ride, a unique hang-gliding roller coaster, designed by renowned coaster designer Werner Stengel and manufactured by Zamperla of Italy. It gives thrill-seekers the incredible sensation of zero gravity, together with the realistic effect of flying.


Outdoor park ticket (all in) cost RM 38 per person, including jet coaster, Car Racing, Rocket Shot, and some playing stuffs which is the same as Dunia Fantasy, Jakarta. The long journey on Sky ride from and to Genting Highland, Heving some sleep inside the Mall, fast food for several times...hahahahha...

There's also indoor park, with some playing stuffs with glamorous design on lighting and package. No adrenaline rush. Good scene for take a picture. In overall, it was a luxurious mall.

What we gonna do on our next visit, (cost RM 50 per person)


Genting Sky Venture is a state of the art skydiving wind tunnel that gives ordinary people the chance to feel the thrill and sensation of jumping out of an airplane and freefalling through the sky just like a skydiver.
You will experience the ultimate skydiving simulator fly in winds up to 193 km/hr in the one and only wind tunnel in Asia!

We left Genting on 6 pm, having dinner at the bus station, back to Bukit Djalil, Pray and ready to continue our journey...overland from Kuala Lumpur to Hat Yai (Thailand) by bus...see Overland KL - Hat Yai (Day 3)

KL - Genting - Phuket , 12-17 May 2010

Yuhuuu,
Welcome to the next my backpacking trip in 2010,
once again it was supported by free tickets provided by Airasia that i bought in November 2009. The different between this trip with the previous one is "the participants", hehehhe...
The participants are only Me and CacingIjo heheheh, my very best friend named as Chandra and we've made it!!!!

We have booked return ticket around midnight (02.00 am) hahaha, whenever free seats published on November 11, 2009. Actually, it was due to our willingness to travel in 2010, no specific destination argued. So, after checking the quota for a while, We have agreed to booked Jakarta - Phuket for 14-17 May 2010, furthermore we decided to extend our trip by booking one way ticket from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur on May 12, 2010 and Kuala Lumpur - Penang on May 13, 2010. And....Overland from Penang to Phuket. So, totally our trip starting on May 12 till 17, 2010.

At the time goes by , we have no further discussion due to the my continuity assignment as an auditor and no available matched schedule for both of us. Until a week before our departure, i just finished my client at Surabaya and he's got the closing period. Oh My God!!!!

No wonder, we booked our hostel in Kuala Lumpur and Penang on Hostelworld.com (Site for backpacker hostel) in separate place (we worked at different office), and communicate by phone (how's great!!!). But we made it. We booked Cosmopolitan Hostel in Kuala Lumpur and Boomerang Lodge in Penang. Left for Phuket, since we still don't know when we arrived there till we finally try to booked the hostel for 2 nights only, within period 15-16 May 2010.

So we start our journey with the tremendous heart beating ihahahahha....Deg..Deg...Deg ....

Day 1, May 12, 2010

CacingIjo Picked me up from the boarding house at 9 am, yups though our flight still on 11.30 am, we should be arrived to the airport earlier to avoid the long queue, It was welcoming long weekend.

We arrived at Soekarno Hatta International Departure, Checked In and paid airport tax at IDR 150,000 per person. More expensive than our fare...hehehhehe...., then go to the fiscal counter to get free fiscal sticker by providing NPWP (Tax Identity Card), Passport and the boarding pass to passed the immigration counter. Unfortunately, we didn't take any pictures upon our departure from Soekarno Hatta. Just self control since i was take the trip with Him, hahahhaha...no Rhollaz attitude came up at that time...Piss Bro...

Our flight taken almost 2 hours, since there are time differences between Malaysia and Indonesia, we arrived at approximately 2.30 PM. It was my second chance arrived in KLIA. First time for him. We pray first at the Surau (Musholla), Take a picture and buy some drinks before leaving the airport by Bus (8 RM) to KL Sentral.

In our way to the KL Central, we decided to looked for the bus ticket to Genting Highland for tomorrow morning. It was sold at the counter stated at the Ground Floor. Unfortunately, there's no ticket available for 8.00 am. We must take the first bus to ensure that we explore more before leaving Kuala Lumpur tomorrow night. Dudududu, that's our sillyness ...hahahhaha...we just let our trip flow, the important thing is the fact that we must back to Jakarta. So, we have another plan (again?????),,,,we take a monorail to the Puduraya Bus station, the central bus station at Kuala Lumpur. We should take a monorail from KL Central to Hang Tuah and got the interchange to the Pudu, when we arrived there the sales counter told us that the station temporary closed and being moved to Bukit Djalil. Poor Us...., But we never give Up hooooohoooo...that's why i loved to travel with him, our similarity comes up...hahahahah...we take monorail to the Chow Kit, check in to the Cosmopolitan Hostel before back as the ticket hunter..^_^.

We booked a 10 beds dormitory room, heheheh, with cost RM 25 nett per person. We consider to minimize the cost since our trip is not for sleeping ^_^. Both of us satisfied with the rooms, clean and feel like home (He said). After storing our luggage, we left the hostel to get into Bukit Jalil. But dududu, we're hungry. hahahha, of course lah..after a long day with no significant food being eaten. I just eat my Chocolate muffin bread while he have finished 2 pizza and 1 sausage bread since our departure this morning. And now, what i can get for you just a beef burger. So sorry to let you being starving a long day bro...

Furthermore, we walked straight to face PWTC LRT Station a long Chow Kit road, to get Bukit Jalil. When we arrived there, we conclude that this place is more than sufficient enough as temporary bus station. It was stated in the open area as some bus stations that we have in Indonesia, but the buses were well arranged into some "colony" that makes visitor/passenger become easier to identify which buses they should be. In addition, the temporary sales counter designed as a big tend/dorm with the waiting room area (though it's only a plastic chair but i think is more than proper as a temporary bus station.

When we enter the counter, we asked the sales counter and got an advice to justcome earlier tomorrow morning and get the first bus to the Genting. We finally abandon both our plan for Penang and the flight ticket towards Genting Highlands. Alhamdulillah. Allah loves us more than we ever think.

Genting..here we come...hahahhaha...we back to the our first plan, have a dinner at the bus station (Nasi lemak, as his request), and explore Kuala Lumpur at night. We've visit Merdeka Square, Masjid Jamek, Central Market and Suriah KLCC till midnight. You know, the best thing that we have there is knowing that we can leave our carriers (lugage) at the bus station while we enjoy Genting Highland with cost only RM 2 per bag. heeheheh...awesome.

Around 11 PM, we decided to back to hostel and take a so late dinner at KFC stated at Chow Kit Road. We talk about our plan for tomorrow till we realised that the remaining problem is "We do not have a ticket to leave Kuala Lumpur to Hat Yai!!!! hahahaha.... I've checked there's direct train from KL Central to Hat Yai, sleeper class one day before leaving Jakarta. But tonight, we just aware that the sleeper class being sold out and online booking only can be made minimum 24 hours upon departure. The last option that we have is take the bus directly from Bukit Jalil to Hat Yai. It might be less comfortable, but it save our time since our transit point during exploring genting was Bukit Jalil, no further business on KL Central.

So, lets have a sleep and be ready for the long day tomorrow....

For the 2nd day, see Genting Highlands (Day 2)

Singapore on peak season \^^/

Luge ride with Friends at Sentosa

Yeay...Singapore once more..
It was my 3rd time visiting this country. Previously, i've plan to take this trip with some of my 7Eleven Mates but unfortunately some of them make a cancellation due to some reason. Hence, this trip only prevailing Me, Tamee, Mbak Yoan and her sister, Ming and also Budhe Ida (my Mate that currently stay in Singapore).

Ready rangers 

Minus tam2 

Those one and a half day was fun through exploring Sentosa Island and shopping along day wkwkwkwk...a nice escape from office peak season.

Shopping like Crazy

Song of the sea, wallpaper doank

Shopping at Imlek night

And now, lets back to Jakarta...piuh....

Hostel:
Amigos Hostel
55 Lavender Street, Singapore, Singapore

Pangandaran - Green Canyon - Batukaras

Green Canyon - Pangandaran

Mulanya perjalanan ini hanya berawal dari kepingin, yang mana kepingin itu syndrom akut yang kalo ga dituruti bikin ga bisa tidur, ngiler berhari-hari..heheheh...
Yup, trip ini bermula saat salah seorang teman backpacking nyeletuk kalo Green Canyon yang ada di Pangandaran, wajib dikunjungi...dan karena emang dasarnya suka berkunjung ke tempat yang belum pernah dikunjungi, jadilah...Aq, bersama Iqoy dan kakak tingkatnya di bangku Kuliah, sebut saja Teh Ayu...berangkat menuju "kepingin"an kita...

Kamis, December 24, 2009 kami berkumpul di rumah Iqoy di daerah Kampung Rambutan, JakTIm. Maklum, sebelum hari H kami sudah browsing bahwa di terminal inilah Bus Budiman ngendon sampe jam 8 malem untuk mengangkut penumpang ke Pangandaran. Orang tua Iqoy sempet nanya, "Ini yang pergi cewek semua?" pertanyaan itu hanya kujawab dengan nyengir saja hahahah...daripada batal berangkat ^_^
Sebenarnya ada satu Cowok yang planningnya akan pergi bersama kami, sebut saja CacingIjo hehehhe...bukan nama sebenarnya tapi finally ga bisa join..dan "Kepingin"an qta udah ga bisa di delay lagi hehehe...

Jam setengah 8 malam kami menuju terminal, apa daya Bus Budiman yang meninggalkan Pakdiman tak kelihatan...huhuhu...Plang Pangandaran yang stand by di barisan paling depan..kosong melompong tanpa punya barisan..huhuhu...sempet resah juga, apalagi ingat kalo Nyak-nya Iqoy sempet bilang.."Inget, kalo ga dapet bus..pulang aja,,ga usah pergi!!!!"

Tapi rupanya Allah mendengar doa kita, bukan Budiman yang langsung nongol tapi tepat di depan plang ada dua cowok yang masih pake "office attire" dan mengenali aku hohohoho..ternyata ada Donny sama Dimas yang sedang menunggu Budiman juga...Alhamdulillah...
aku baru ingat kalo mantan rekan sekantorku juga pada mo maen ke Pangandaran, cuman mereka sewa mobil jadi nggak nyangka aja ketemu di terminal. Mereka ga bisa cuti katanya, mobil sewaan udah berangkat pagi..dan mereka nyusul usai jam kantor.

Tak lama kemudian datanglah bus yang dinanti, berbaris di belakang Plang pangandaran. Tapi oh my God, itu bukan Budiman, Pakdiman juga bukan...heheheh, Merdeka kalo ga salah namanya..busnya udah berumur, non AC dan lebih mirip metromini ato Kopaja ketimbang Bus,,,tanpa babibu kami berlima menghambur mendekati bus, setelah menentukan posisi, kondektur mendatangi kami dan kami harus merogoh kocek IDR 60,000 per orang. mahal juga ya....tapi... Weits, rupanya kami ketipu....bus ini tipikal mematok harga di atas bus, orang di belakang kami bahkan ada yang cuma bayar IDR 45,000. Ini jadi pelajaran pertama buat kami malam itu...tawar boss!!!
Perjalanan ditempuh selama kira2 8 jam, termasuk di oper ke bus ekonomi yang lain ditengah malam hadow....

Sekitar jam 5 kami tiba di terminal Pangandaran, aku berpisah dengan Donny dan Dimas dan langsung menuju mesin ATM terdekat dari Terminal (BNI and BRI).Maklum, dana menipis heheheh,,,setelahnya kami langsung menuju masjid besar Al Istiqomah di samping terminal. Disini kami shalat Shubuh lalu mandi di kamar mandi masjid. Kamar mandinya bersih coy...membuat tekad kami semakin bulat untuk menginap di masjid..hehehhe. Tak ketinggalan, poto2 dulu qta di sekitar masjid dan terminal Pangandaran.

Masjid Pangandaran

Signboard

Setelah mandi dan nungguin Iqoy ma Teh Ayu sarapan, kami membeli air minum untuk bekal di Indomaret dan Alfa Mart didekat masjid, lalu masuk terminal untuk naik bus menuju ke Cijulang. Langkah awal menuju Green Canyon. Dari Cijulang lanjut naik ojek ke Green Canyon. Namun, ditengah jalan kami dioper ke angkot warna cokelat menuju Cijulang. Lalu sopir angkot menawarkan untuk lanjut mrngantarkan kami ke Green Canyon Kami memilih untuk berangkat ke Green Canyon pagi2 untuk menghindari antrian.
Namun sayangnya, hari Jumat Green Canyon baru buka pukul 13.00 hingga 16.00...jadilah kami lanjut ke Batu Karas terlebih dahulu...batu karas hanya sebagian pesisir pantai yang lebih mirip ancol bagi kami. Agak kecewa, kami memutuskan tracking saja dari Batu karas ke Green Canyon.Itung2 menghabiskan waktu sembari menunggu GC buka. Lha Kok 3 jam ya..hadow...kaki rasanya udah triple L (Lemah, Letih,Lesu) hahahha....alhasil qta makan bakso plus plus. Plus nambah maksudnya..hahahh...

Capeeek heheheh 

Batukaras

Pecel warna warni, enyaaak

Ngebakso..wajib!!!!

sehabis makan kami lanjut ke GC dan tralalala...dapet antrian no 348 hmmph...lama juga ya nunggunya...
sembari nunggu nongkrong gajebo dipinggiran sungai, ketemu ama Lia, Fadly, Donny, Dimas, dkk (rekan SCB-q) jadi rame deh suasananya.
Meski lumayan lama gajebo nungguin antrian perahu, tralala datang juga giliran kami. Huiks, dengan ongkos sekitar IDR 75,000 perahu bisa dinaikin hingga 5 orang. Lumayan jadi IDR 15,000 per orang. Plus biaya tambahan kalo mo berenang setelah turun dari perahu sekitar IDR 100,000/ perahu, jadi mending nyemplung semua aja heheheheh


Sayangnya hanya Aq, Iqoy dan Fadly yang menenggelamkan diri ke air. meski ga bisa berenang, i know it was Fun!!! hehehhe so...nyemplung deh...sebenrnya ga masalah, karena qta dibekali pelampung dan tali sebagai pengaman karena arus air cukup kencang. Meski air tak berwarna hijau tosca sebagaimana dibicarakan orang (habis hujan euy) aq tetap mensyukuri nikmat Allah, karena telah diberikan kesempatan untuk menikmatinya. Subhanallah...Indonesia is dangerously beautiful...

Dengan gaya berenang yang ga jelas berpadu water wall climbing hehehhe opo maneh toh iku, sebenernya wall climbing yang dimaksud adalah berjalan melayang diair sembari menapakkan tangan dan kaki sekenanya di sepanjang dinding tebing agar tidak terseret arus air (two thumbs up!!!!) dilanjutkan memanjat ke atas untuk menemukan semacam kolam mandi mini yang Masya Allah..jernih banget airnya. Must be try temans...because it makes me want to re-visit this place one day...

After basah2an, kami bertolak dengan perahu untuk ganti baju, mandi dan makan. Rekan2 SCB q kembali ke Jakarta dengan mobil sewaan, dan tinggallah kembali kami bertiga yang luntang luntung ga jelas mencari pengharapan untuk kembali ke Pangandaran. Jauh euy...capek....

After luntang luntung ga jelas, kami memutuskan untuk naik ojek dulu ke area perkampungan, namun sialnya angkot terakhirpun sudah tak bersisa untuk menghantarkan kami balik ke Pangandaran. Alhasil, untuk menenangkan diri kami singgah di salah satu masjid, shalat, minta petunjuk sama yang diatas hehehe... dan entah kenapa tiba-tiba terbersit satu ide konyol untuk bermalam saja di masjid ini dan kembali ke Pangandaran esok hari.

Niatan menginap di masjid kami urungkan mengingat ukuran masjid yang tidak begitu besar serta beberapa jamaah yang hilir mudik di dalam masjid. Gontai kami berjalan menelusuri jalanan lurus yang notabene berujung di Pangandaran. Dan tetap saja, meski sudah mencoba berjalan cukup lama, masih jauh saudara-saudara hahahha.

Ga patah arang, kami mencoba menumpang kendaraan yang lewat. Apapun itu, dari mobil pribadi ampe truk barang. Dan alhamdulillah, tak lama kemudian sebuah truk kayu berbaik hati memberikan tumpangan. Tapi ya mungkin belum rejeki, sekali lagi kami urungkan niat lantaran awak truk harus rela memberikan kursinya untuk kami sementara dia berangin-angin di bagian bak truk. Kami memang butuh, tapi tidak seyogyanya kami merebut hak orang lain, apalagi nyusahin orang lain, iya ga?

Mungkin Tuhan mendengar doa kami, tak lama setelah truk berlalu, sebuah angkutan umum lewat. Angkutan tersebut pintunya sudah tertutup rapat, namun dengan baik hati bersedia membuka pintu untuk kami meski sudah kelewat dari jam operasi. Dan sekali lagi kami menyadari, perjalananan menuju Pangandaran benar-benar masih jauh...

Tiba di Pangandaran, masih ada satu masalah yang belum terselesaikan. Dimanakah kami akan meletakkan badan malam ini?? Berbekal blog walking, beberapa memang menyarankan penginapan murah di sekitaran terminal pangandaran, namun ada yang paling murah aka ga bayar, nginep di masjid Pangandaran hahahahha dan ini yang kami pilih.

Menginap di masjid memang bukan masalah, dan sejauh yang saya baca, aman-aman saja. Masalahnya, kami bertiga wanita, dan mungkin karena itulah tak lama setelah kami meluruskan kaki di masjid, seorang pria paruh baya yang notabene penjaga masjid menyuruh kami untuk beristirahat di sebuah ruangan kosong yang masih berada di dalam kompleks masjid. Lebih aman buat wanita, ujar beliau, so tanpa babibu kami mengikuti anjuran beliau.

Kenapa Masjid Pangandaran? selain merupakan masjid besar yang berlokasi di dekat terminal, masjid ini juga dilengkapi kamar mandi yang cukup bersih. Beberapa traveler juga merekomendasikan masjid ini, terutama bagi mereka yang tiba dini hari.

Menjelang pagi, kami segera berbenah untuk eksplore pantai Pangandaran. Dari masjid ke pantai cukup ditempuh dengan jalan kaki. Pangandaran cukup luas, apalagi jika kita sekalian menelusuri bibir pantai dan perbukitan kecil disekitarnya. Puas berkeliling menjelang dhuhur kita berbenah dan hengkang kembali ke Jakarta. Puas? tentunya!!! kapan lagi bisa menjelajah nusantara murah meriah, tanpa cuti pula hoihohoho.. mumpung masih sehat dan full semangat ^^

4 Days in 4 countries...(cont'd)

. This pic was taken on our first day at KL. On the way to Masjid Jamek from Dang Wangi Stesen(No comment...it's the way how Malaysian spell and write it). The best pic we have of KL Tower hahahah...encourage us to go back to KL Tower in the morning heheheh and let's guess..we take a long walking time again..there's no changes, we still found any difficulties to capture the tower in our hands. (absolutely can't). oPlease be patient, because there was a huttle bus that lead us to the main gate of the tower, no more walking instead u want to have the incline tracking which is not a kind of hiking heheheh...
we just spare a little time here, not only because it just a tower plus some high cost adrenalin rush and fun games but also reality that we should cattch up the flight from KL to Bangkok hmmph...
Bangkok..here we come...