Being kidnapped to Krakatoa (part 1)

Okay.. So after months didnt have any travel together (and after being so annoyed asking Sean about next travel), I was being kidnapped to Krakatoa. Why I said being kidnapped? Since he just told me on Sunday and the trip was happened on next Friday. Without even know who will be joined or else.lol

This time, we took open trip with Travelmate. It cost IDR 550k/person with meeting point at Merak. Then the next problem is.. How can we go to Merak?? Since Jakarta-Merak was quite far and the meeting time was on Friday, after office hour. You could imagine the traffic then..

So, on Friday, we decided to meet on train from Tebet station. He should took the train with last destination to Bukit Duri then I joined him from Tebet. Fortunately we did meet in train. lol. From Bukit Duri, we should change and wait for another train to Tangerang. Where, his friends already waiting there. It tooks almost 1,5 hours from Jakarta to Tangerang. But only cost me IDR 5k from Tebet to Tangerang by train. Which is, very cheap! From Tangerang, we're going to Merak using his friends' car whom they also joined us to Krakatoa. It tooks around another 2 hours by car. And we arrived on time. Anyway his friends're a married couple and I just knew it on d-day that they're Sari and mas Bayu whom I already met before in Pahawang.lol

Since Krakatoa was quite a strict island and only several travel group that allowed to go there, and also the total cost quite expensive, so the minimum quota was 30 people for 1 trip or no trip at all. At that time, there's 2 meeting point, at Slipi Jaya, Jakarta and Leuwipanjang, Bandung. Because we're going by ourself to Merak instead of joined in the meeting point, we have to wait for another team before going in to the ship. With additional cost IDR 10k, we upgraded the ticket from economy class to executive (with ac and no smoking, hell yeah).

We arrived at Lampung around 3a.m and then continue from Bakaheuni to Pelabuhan Canti-Kalianda with rented angkot. And it's full of Dangdut remix music (I tried to listen and understand the lyrics but didnt get at all.lol). Around 8a.m after breakfast and changed the clothes, we're ready to go.

One of the tour lead said that actually we're too early from the schedule, so as the bonus, we got our first snorkeling before resting in the homestay. We're stayed in Sebesi Island. It's quite nice island actually, and the homestay's really near the beach. But unfortunately the weather at noon was really damn hot, even walking in the sand without sandal could burn your foot. So we cant play and just lazily laying around at the benches.

So around 3p.m, when it's getting cooler, we're going to the next snorkeling spots. Before catching the sunset in Umang-umang island.

I must admitted that somehow Umang-umang island reminded me of Belitung. Since lot of big rocks with the white sand and blue water. And eventhough it's cloudy, but the view still beautiful.

Unfortunately I can't really enjoy the water because someone asked me to hold his new phone. While he himself was really enjoyed playing in the beach.=____=

The cloudy sunset at Umang-umang. The tour lead said it's not really good, but still pretty isnt it?

Well, that's all for the 1st dan 2nd day for Krakatoa trip. Will catch you later for the 3rd day which is tracking the Anak Krakatoa.

Ja ne