eunike's posts with tag: east java
|  | July 19-21, 2007
23 of 25 “should be” participants left Jakarta to Surabaya with 0,- IDR Air Asia last flight in Thursday evening. They were Yudi, Sony (both were the EO), Roni, Harum, Yadi, Putu, Vero, Didiek, Puzi, Hany, Kim Ling, Selvita, Feny, Lina, Dina, Fedi, Lutfie, Billy (the youngest one), Ones, Andreas Tyo, Mumu, Sonson, and Kekeuw!
Arriving in Juanda airport – Surabaya, we had a mini bus (29 people capacity) to deliver us to Sendang Biru, the closest fisher village to Sempu Island. This village provides some warung for dining, basic hostel and toko kelontong to get water, food, mosquito repellent lotion, and other supplies. It’s common and easier to stay in Sendang Biru while visiting Sempu Island, but we came to stay in the isle and were ready for camping.
Sendang Biru was very close to Sempu. I think swimming was possible option to reach Sempu from SB. Hehehe.. *should try for another chance!! :p Crossing Sempu after having breakfast in SB, it was only about 10 minutes with a round crossing the sea to Teluk Semut. Please wear only short (or if you’d like, a hot pants) since the boat couldn’t reach the beach. We had to walk a bit with the salt water as high as our thigh. No wave, so it was easy to do.
From Teluk Semut to Segara Anakan was about 1-1.5 hours easy trekking (plus one point or two with difficult - sloping tracks). Bringing those camping necessities would be another story, it was quite burdening and asked us a few breaks. No porter was available for your baggage, but our group specially ordered meals and gallons of mineral water to the local people so they brought those to the camping ground a few hours later (for certain price and fee).
Teluk Semut was beautiful for me, but Segara Anakan was much more beautiful!! Here was the camping ground with blue lagoon and high blockading rock around. All exhaustion was erased as I saw the blue sky, turquoise water, white sands and yellow rocks mended in perfect composition. Thank for Mother Nature that keep this island isolated and relatively hard to reach. Wish all visitors keep it as it was in future.
Being lazy in the white sand beach, what we did as we arrived. We thought it would be more comfortable to snorkel later as the sun lower. But I lost that chance, the water was lessen as the time went by. It was just getting thinner in few hours. About at 5-7 pm, you could reach the mid of lagoon just by walking, no swimming, with water only on your knees. You might explore the reef and hiding fishes closer that time. Seem the tide was in morning and afternoon only.
Many sides of Sempu weren’t explored yet. Some friend did trekking to 2-3 other beaches (they said those were beautiful even more difficult to reach). But I did enjoy being still in the east side. It was rocky area with strong winds, sound of splashing waves crashing the rocks, forceful - tremendous sea ahead, and sensation of being so small and fragile; scared and thankful I was at the same time.
Camping in Sempu was quite easy, if you need not to pee, bath, “etc” for 1-2 days ;p no lavatory in this isolated island. So.. Just wild your self and blend to nature. Casting away, how we called this trip..
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Summary
Jakarta – Surabaya
1 hour 10 minutes flight with Air Asia
(www.airasia.com)
185,000 IDR (promo price)
Surabaya – Sendang Biru
4 hours by Bus/Car (passed Porong in late night)
Only Simpati cellular phone number has signal in Sendang Biru – teluk Semut.
No any signal in Segara anakan
Sendang Biru – Teluk Semut, Sempu
10 – 15 minutes crossing the sea by boat
75, 000 IDR/ boat (10-12 people capacity)
Teluk Semut – Segara Anakan
1-1.5 hours easy trekking
Warung & Wisma Sendang Biru (CP. Bapak Rofiq)
0341. 872083
Ordering meals to local people
@7,500 IDR/meal/person
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