Hutan Mati, Papandayan

I've been into weekdays getaway lately. Beside my awesome sister, my travel girlfriend is this one cool Polish girl, Sylwia. She's a cool travel buddy. Tough, non-complainer type (though her tolerance towards cold is lower than mine --which is very low).

This time we had one week trip, to the mountain and to the sea. The trip began with a trip to Pulau Pari (Thousand Island, DKI Jakarta). She introduced me to a group of people who were looking for more people to make the trip more economical. We took a ferry from Muara Angke. The place stinks (no joke). But what can you expect? Its a fish market. Anyway, it took around 40 minutes to reach this island. It stopped once at another island but just for a little while.

Once we reached, we go right away to Pak RT (thats what a head of neighbourhood called in Indonesia) house and yes, we stay there. The house is conveniently located. In the middle of the island, and the best beach is just 10 minutes away walking.

On Monday the 31st, it was Nyepi (a national Hindu cultural public holiday. Curious enough? Google it) in Indonesia. While most people were driving back after a long weekend, we catch a bus to Garut and arrived there at 10 PM. Took ojek and met our guide Robby and then the next day we started the trip. Cold, cold, cold, but awesome. Finish with the mountain, we took angkot to get to Garut city. We bought some arak and oleh-oleh (souvenir) and we ate and continue the trip with bus and reached BKN terminal at East Jakarta at night.

me, mountain, sylwia and tongsis

For Papandayan trekking information contact: Robby +62813 3214 2675.