What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Beach

Ujung Pandaran Beach

Sampit, East Kotawaringin Regency

Note: the bold words are the things that impressed me the most.

It's our second trip from the last year's blue lake. Me and my 10 homies went to Ujung Pandaran Beach. It is located in Sampit, East Kotawaringin Regency, Central Borneo. This beach is directly bordered with Java Sea. It took about 7-hour trip by motorcycle from Palangka Raya.

We took a tour at 6 in the morning, Thanks God, the weather was friendly. The trip was quite exhausted cause the long way we through. But as we arrived at beach village, it's just so fresh when we saw the line of palm trees around roadside. We considered to not turn off to the tourism complex, so we just took apart the area only for us.

At arrival, we re-planned to not make camp, so we just planned to sleep shaded by the sky while we're hoping it would not be raining. Unhappily, there were so many garbages there. At night, we cooked rice and noodle with old-fashioned way as we also did in the tomorrow morning. If you cannot cook as like boy scout or forest survival did, don't worry there are so many food-stands there.

Night's adventure was just not merely finished in dinner and war with mosquitoes. We continued our night's adventure by walking on the sea. Yes, walking on the sea. The water ebbed at the night so we could easily find shrimps, fish, and other ocean stuffs. Then, when we got off to sleep, it's just so amazing accompanied by a sea of stars in the sky. Here's the tip if you wanna sleep at the beach: bring plenty mosquito-repellent-lotion. Thanks me later as you try the tip.

Dawn came up. We were welcomed by wonderful sunrise. It's very beautiful, if you wanna imagine, the color seemed like the combination of violet-orange-blue. The sunrise was more beautiful than the sunset. It caused the sunset was risen from the sea angle, so it combined with the reflection from the sea water. In the morning, it's swimming time. The sand was quite white and soft. Meanwhile, the sea water was quite blue and so salty. We found many big woods around carried by waves ashore as we used for playing fake-boat and laid down on them doing sunbath.

So, what they don't talk about when they talk about beach. It's up there.

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This Is Out of the Blue

Kasongan's Blue Lake
Katingan Regency

Well, a couple days ago, me and my homies went to Blue Lake (Danau Biru), it is located at Kasongan, Katingan Regency, Central Borneo Province. I assumed it's untouchable from public yet. It took a 2-hour trip by motorcycle from the province's capital city. The street was flawless. We took a tour at the afternoon about 2 pm and it came rain.

After we arrived at the spot, we just literally built up our wonderful camp. Yes, a camp. We considered to take it as a 1-day-1-night tour. We made bonfire. How about the meal? We ate as like as a survival or a boy scout. We cooked rice and sardines with a help of twig. At the night, it came rain again. Well, we just spent the night by playin domino. The atmosphere was actually quite horror. Can you imagine, in the middle of nowhere, only 13 dudes accompanied by mosquitoes, no one else, and dark. Plus, we got a freaky moment when someone went through our camp shoning his flashlight to us. What a night. But that was hella fun.

In the morning, it's swimming time! We did swimming competition and somersault contest. The lake was quite clean and it's not too deep. The view was very beautiful. And yes, the lake's color is blue. I dunno where the blue color came from. As we asked the people surrounding this lake, it's made from excavation.

All in all, for those of you who wants to stop by here, it's very recommended to you. At least to simply refresh your mind after being busy and stressful with all these world's things. Well, then. Peace out.

*Out of the blue is an informal English idiom that describes an event that occurs unexpectedly, without any warning and preparation

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