Short escape to Pangandaran

So, I went to a short trip last week. Actually it's because of family event but apparently my Mom make it short so we can go to the beach for watching sunrise. I was going to Banjar first, which took 7 hours of driving from Jakarta to the south, with some stop of course.

So, Pangandaran is basically a town within the province of West Java, Indonesia. It is located on the southern coast of the island of Java. With a big waves, the beach will be suitable for surfing. After finished the event in the evening, we're going to Pangandaran Beach. Without any planning of what we're going to do there (yeah, my mom improves a lot. Hahaha). It took 2 hours of drive from Banjar, so we arrived around 10pm. Actually we're confused where we would going to sleep and in which hotel. So we decided to book the first hotel that we saw which was really near from the beach, SR Timur Hotel. But seems like it's a bad choice. We thought it's not yet opened since it's taking time to knock in the door and almost decided to move when apparently there's only 2 guy whom slept in reception desk. No other services people except these two. The twin bed room apparently small, smelly and dirty. The shower was also dirty without any towels and only 1 toothbrush (and we just realized in the morning that the tv was also not worked). Actually it's not worth the price (IDR 350k/room without any services), but because we thought that we will just need to sleep and catching the sunrise, so we took it anyway. Apparently in the next morning it's cloudy so we cant have a good sunrise anyway.

But we're really satisfied eating the seafoods. I recommended to have a bite in RM. Dhita Seafood. It offer nice price and a good taste, but make sure you choose your own fish because like usual restaurant, they will tried to make you chose old stored fishes. Make sure you asked them to bring you the new ones before you choose the fishes and others.

After finished the lunch, we're going back to Jakarta. And it took almost 10 hours to drive. Phew. Ja Ne. See you next trip :))