CEMARA BEACH - KALIANTAN BEACH - PINK BEACH - TANJUNG RINGGIT
This 2017 Eid holiday I
had 10 days off and had been planning on using it to go backpacking to Lombok
for a week, couple days after Eid. Why around Eid? One of the reasons is to
avoid the most famous and annoying question during Eid for single people in my
age ‘when are you gonna get married?’ from relatives or friends -_-
I started the trip on 27th
July morning, my friend dropped me to bus station who also paid for the bus (so
nice of him <3) and told people around that I was from Malaysia then some
people include driver tried to speak English with me -,-. It costs Rp. 100,000,
more expensive than I thought it would be. But maybe cause it was around Eid,
many people using it and I didn’t even get the AirCon one :(.
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| Tano Port - Sumbawa |
My 1st
destination was Jerowaru - East Lombok, there were some nice beaches there. So
I got off of the bus in Sikur, it’s a district in East Lombok. In Sikur I had
to take ojek for Rp. 20,000 (which also was more expensive during Eid) to Sakra
Village, about 5 km away. In Sakra, someone picked me up, Pak Umar, our
company’s business partner. He managed our plantation area in Jerowaru, he also
let me stay in his house and agreed to take me to those beaches I wanted to go.
He was so nice and helpful, so was his wife and his 3 kids. I got my own room
and they also provided meal during my trip. There’s nothing I can do to pay
their kindness back, they treated me like their family, took me to meet their
relatives and friends, also taking me to our plantation area to meet farmers.
Guess work a lil bit during holiday was fine……
I arrived in his place in
the evening after visiting his relatives, plantation areas and farmers. After
showered and had dinner, we talked about our next day plan. He said he needed
to meet some farmers before taking me to those beaches, I agreed. Btw that 1st
day expenses were just Rp. 35,000 that I spent on 2 liters gasoline for Pak
Umar’s motorbike and Ojek from Sikur to Sakra.
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| My room in Pak Umar's house |
The next day after
breakfast, we started at 7 am to meet farmers 1st. Actually my
target was going to Tanjung Bloam, Tanjung Ringgit and Pink Beach. But that
morning Pak Umar took me to Cemara Beach and Kaliantan Beach 1st, I
think because it was in a same directions with his farmer’s place. It was
pretty early so the beaches were so quiet and no people around which was good
but the water wasn’t so good yet without the sun lights. We spent only about 10
minutes at each beaches. From Pak Umar’s house to Cemara Beach was just about 4
km away, and Kaliantan Beach was not that far from Cemara Beach, only few
minutes driving away. For me, both are pretty much the same, white sands and
I’ve seen its pictures before and it was wonderful. This time it wasn’t as good
as I expected but I think it was because I went there too early, if I went
there at noon maybe I could get a better view. But both beaches were clean.
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| Cemara Beach |
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| Kaliantan Beach |
After Cemara &
Kaliantan we continued driving to Pink Beach which was in the opposite
direction. Before we got to the beach we met another farmers and talked a lil
bit and they told me that people couldn’t enter Tanjung Bloam since they have
fancy resort there. It freaking sucks and I don’t know if it’s true even tho I
heard about that before, it’s too bad that local people can’t even enjoy their
nature but I didn’t talk much and just agreed not to go there but it upsets me
so much -,-. Then we just directly went to Pink Beach which was 3 km away from
the farmer’s house. I heard a lot about this Pink Beach, about the very bad
access to get there especially and yea it was bad but not as bad as what people
say I think, I had the worse ones before. To get to pink beach we had to pay
entrance fee for Rp. 5,000/person.
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| Japanese Tunnel at Pink Beach |
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| Pink Beach |
To be honest I had a very
high expectation about this Pink Beach, that I would find pink sands and
blabla, well I didn’t. But it was still to be there, it was still pretty early
so not so many people. There were some boats also that can take the visitors to
some small islands around. I didn’t wanna take any boat cause I already had
plans to go to gilis the next day. So that day chillin at Pink Beach was enough
and took some pictures. I feel bad to ask Pak Umar to take my pictures so I
just did it by myself with timer, jumping, laying, sitting on sands taking my
own pictures. There is also a cave or tunnel more precisely that was built by
Japanese long time ago to hide from the Dutch, It wasn’t that big but nah I
didn’t wanna enter. I prefer to chill at the beach and talking with Pak Umar
about work and trip.
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| Pink Beach |
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| Pink Beach |
After Pink Beach, Pak Umar
took me to Tanjung Ringgit which was very close from Pink Beach, just few minutes
driving. No other people at all and we didn’t need to pay any entrance fee. We
just drove and stopped somewhere and found a perfect spot to enjoy the view.
There was also a cannon which was used by the Japanese and some other buildings around. Hmmm..i guess it was some kind of fortress to protect themselves from the Dutch. Btw, from
all places I visited that day, Tanjung Ringgit was the best for me. It has a
perfect view even tho it was too hot but I liked it there. We stayed there for
a while chillin and taking some pictures. Pak Umar told me that the view from
Tanjung Ringgit and Tanjung Bloam are pretty much the same so it kinda made me
feel better,,kinda……
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| Tanjung Ringgit |
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| Tanjung Ringgit |
Pak Umar actually offered
me to see some other beaches but I think it was enough for that day cause I had
to continue my trip to Mataram and luckily my coworker came to meet Pak Umar
for work thing, so I could join him for a free ride to go to Mataram :D. Around
4 pm we left Pak Umar’s house and driving for like 1,5 hours to Mataram.
So grateful and satisfied
even tho only staying with Pak Umar and his family for a night. His wife cooked
a lot of food cause their relatives also came to visit. Everyone I met there
was super nice and friendly that made me feel feel like I was home. That was
something I would never forget and Pak Umar keeps asking me to come again and I
definitely will \\(^o^)//
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| Tanjung Ringgit |
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