Sunday, May 25, 2014

One fine holiday in West Sumatera – Part 2 Tour the Beach (Painan)

After tour the lake, the second day was tour the beach. Beside of mountain atmosphere, beach is also my favorite place. I can stand for a long time just to enjoy the blue, hear the sounds of waves and feel the wind blows my hair.

West Sumatera is one of province in Indonesia that famous with the beach. All of the west side of this province is beach. Imagine the blue view along the way. The beach that we would like to visit at that day was Carocok Beach or Pantai Carocok.

Pantai Carocok placed at Painan, Pesisir selatan. It took about 4 hours from Solok. It quite long way but believe me, all of your effort to see that place will be paid off.

That second day my family can’t come with us. So I asked my high school friends to join. Luckily my friends Depi, Argie, Gerry and Iyud came with us.

To reach Painan we have to through Padang City. For the first two hours, we through the hills and the green view. The others two hours were a very amazing one. We through the hills with the beach view. All we can see was blue from the top of the hills. I really enjoy traveling with the view like this. Everyone keeps laughing and telling the story. It was like recalling the time when we were still at Senior High Schools. Just like people said memories never gets away.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

One fine holiday in West Sumatera – Part 1 Tour de Lake (Solok)

This journal begin when Wanda, one of my close friend in Jakarta asked me to take them to my hometown to see how’s my home town looks like. Actually I, Wanda and three others friend planned this journal from long time ago when we were still in the college. Four of us are an auditor and one of us is an accountant. Of course it will be difficult to find the right time to travel. Then, suddenly Wanda asked that we are going to Padang at May 15, 2014. May 14 is national holiday and we will take the day off at May 15, so we will make it for 4 days, Thursday to Sunday. Unfortunately, only me and Wanda available at that time. At May 7 we booked the ticket. We booked for three because Wanda’s cousin comes with us. The ticked costed us Rp. 1.575.000,- Jakarta – Padang and return. It’s quite expensive because it was long weekend.

We got the night flight at Thursday because the morning and afternoon flight was sold out. We left Jakarta at 6pm and arrived in Padang at 7.30pm. From airport to my home in Solok takes 2 hours. So the first day we just fully rest in my home.