I
heard about this waterfall couple months ago from someone’s post on Travel
Community page on Facebook, and it looked really nice. I went to Lombok Island
a lot but didn’t know about this waterfall so i guess it was pretty new. I like that thing about myself that once i saw a nice picture of a new place, then i'm gonna try to find it no matter what -,-
So
on December 26th couple years ago -,- i went and stayed for couple days in
Sambik Elen Village, Bayan District, North Lombok at my coworker’s house who i
traveled with. And the 1st destination we went to was this Mangku
Sakti waterfall located in Sajang, Sembalun which is not that far from Bayan,
but i had no idea at all about how to get there.
But
the entrance was pretty easy to find, and we gotta pay Rp. 5.000/person. It
wasn’t really the entrance anyway but some guys stopped us and said things
about contribution for working on the road and stuff. And told us that we still
gotta drive for another 2 KM and there will be a parking lot to park the
motorbikes.
But his 2 Km wasn’t really 2 KM,, it was like 5
Km and the road was freaking horrible,,maybe cause it was a rainy season and
the road was rocky and muddy and gotta stop many times cause i was kinda scared
of the road -_-. But on the way we found cool place and met some young people
there taking pictures and i of course didn’t wanna miss my chance to do the
same \(^o^)/
But
after that,,more horrible roads to go lol, and there was 1 place that it was
the most difficult part for everyone, well when we arrive there we were
thinking to just park there or passing it through, till some other groups of
people coming and helping each other to pass the road \(^o^)/. Not so far after
that we arrived at the parking lot, whew. But yea we still gotta walk to reach
the waterfall -_-.
There
was 2 waterfalls mentioned on the sign and we start trekking and met some other
people on the way. And it was like 500 meters away till we found the waterfalls
and there were some other people there taking pictures and stuff. It was kinda
disappointing that the water was dirty due to rainy season tho. I could be
better, that im thinking prolly will be back again in dry season.
The
place is actually nice, i just wish the water wasn’t that dirty like a choco
milk. But didn’t really spend much time there, was just taking lots of pics and
chillin’ for a bit, worried if its gonna rain then its gonna be difficult to go
back. But it was still difficult no matter what lol. Even harder than when we
came. But i guess they have some people on duty to help the visitors since i
kept seeing the same people helping visitors in a really bad spots of the road
just like when we 1st came there. It’s good tho -_-,,the road needs to be fixed
soon.
It would be so much better if they fix the road,
but as always bad road means less people come there so the place is still good.
And the funny thing about that trip was what so memorable wasn’t even the
waterfall but the effort to go there instead lol. But im seriously planning to
go there again, prolly with different friends since my friends i went to dont
wanna go there anymore because of the road -,-.
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