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Once upon a time.....iissshh..... a friend of mine showed me
pictures of the waterfalls i never heard of before. I instantly fell in
love.....to the waterfalls, not to my friend!. Since then i kept forcing him to
take me there. After his few “i’m still busy” weeks, we finally went there
last Sunday.
Wanted to go there so much cause these waterfalls are still pretty
unknown, better to go before it gets so popular and so crowded. I only know few
people who know about the waterfalls and still not so many information i could
get bout it. So...........perfect!
We planned to start from Sumbawa Besar at 3 am, but when i called him to wake him up, he was like "i was having a good dream, lemme sleep a lil bit longer to see if it continues". So i was being nice to let him sleep again and we really started to leave at 3.45 am. Till now he doesn't wanna tell me what dream he had tho -,-.
It was pretty cold riding motorbike that early for 2,5 hours to West Sumbawa but i wanted to see those waterfalls so bad and on the way we found this beautiful view of the clouds around the hills (2nd picture).
We
arrived in Taliwang to meet some other friends who left to Sumbawa Besar a
night before. We also have some super nice friends in Taliwang who bought us
Gado-gado for breakfast. From Taliwang, it took another 30 minutes driving to
Bangkat Monte Village, Brang Rea District, where the waterfalls are. There is
no name sign or anything but then we just stopped somewhere on the street and
parked our motorbike then walked a lil bit. And woohooo the 1st waterfall was
just like a minute away from the road. It was super easy to find,,or maybe it
was super easy cause i just walked behind my friends who already knew where the
waterfalls are -,-.
The
1st waterfall was just like 3 meters high and luckily the water was clean at
that time and everyone started to get busy with their phones and cameras taking
pictures, especially me.............There was a tree trunk that i could lay
on,,yeh sleepy adventurer needed some rest after sleepless night.
Actually
Ai Mual is the river’s name. Along the river, there are so many waterfalls that
we don’t even know many exactly yet. But if you walk up or down the river, you
will find some. So we walked down the river and it was like every 20 meters
walking you will find another waterfalls. Even tho all the waterfalls were just
1 m to 4 meters high but it was all pretty. The pretty shapes and so many
natural pools made me so speechless. Like i could just stop anywhere to swim, too
many things to enjoy.
But
when i arrived at the 4th waterfall, i couldn’t resist to swim in
the pool even tho i kept telling myself that i would not swim that day but yeah
it was just too beautiful and no other visitors. Well i wasn’t exactly swimming
since i can’t swim but just got into the water. It was so cool and peaceful, in
some parts of the pools was like my private natural jacuzzi.
After
chillin at natural jacuzzi we continue walking for another 20 meters then we
arrived at the last waterfalls. But even tho it was the last one we visited, i
could see there are still another waterfalls down there. This 5th waterfall we
want to was pretty wide. Many small natural pools around and still no other
visitors!!! Just chilled a lil bit here, taking pictures and i was just so
amazed, too many waterfalls at once.
I actually
brought my hammock with me but i completely forgot about that, i was just too
busy enjoying the view. Even tho many trees around that would be so perfect to
set up my hammock. But too many waterfalls to visit so we couldn’t really stay long
enough to chill at hammock L.
But
turned out, it was not the last waterfall i saw that day. My friend took me to
walk a lil bit more to the left side of this waterfall, and woooohoooo there
was another waterfall. That last one was so pretty but there were some other
visitors L. I remembered about my hammock in this
waterfall cause i was 2 perfect trees exactly in front of the waterfalls. But i
didn’t wanna be that selfish to block other people’s view.
I
wished to stay longer but we had to leave soon to watch Buffalo Race. And
driving back to Sumbawa Besar would take 2,5 – 3 hours riding. That day was
pretty cloudy too, raining a lil bit actually. But even when i was there i
already thought about coming back there next time. It’s too beautiful to keep
for ourselves but i hope the more people come there, the place would not get
dirtier. Cause it’s still super clean and super natural. Hope people won’t ruin its beauty.
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Photo by Farhan Syadli
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