East Jawa Trip - concluded

Alright, I know i should have posted tis like over a year ago, dragging tis for over a year is juz crazy!! but trust me, i really really wanna go bek to blogging again, but there's juz so much going on tat i hardly have any time to blog at all!! still, i'm, serious about going bek to blogging and i'm gonna start with where i left it, erm, briefly (coz i've forgotten most of it already!) anyway, here goes~

We woke up at 130am (serious!) and got ready to leave at 2, but when we were ready we couldn't find the driver anywhere. We kept looking and he finally showed up at 230, apparently he overslept, haha. so we started our journey and reach the foot hill at around 3am. A lot of people were there, mostly drivers like ours, waiting for their clients at the foothill, they started a small fire there, n we sticked with them for about half an hour coz it was SO COLD!!! seriously, we could hardly make ourselves move away from the fire, n I've already wore like 3 layers of jacket! DAMN COLD!! at 330 we juz couldn't wait anymore so we finally started the hike. The one thing tat i will probably remember for the rest of my life was the starry nite sky, it's the most amazing thing i've seen ever! there were so many stars! it's like u hardly see a space for 1mm! really really nice.

Hiking in pitch dark was fun actually, although it was kinda tough, but we made it to the peak after 1 hour or so. At the peak was a few guide, and some people waiting for the sunrise, and we were all wondering, wat's the blue thingy tat we can see?? so we started asking around, and they tell us we need to go all the way down to the sulfur mine to see it, but we were already all excited to see it from afar!!

can u see it? the blue light near the lake?

and we made our way down to the mine

NOT NEAR AT ALL

when we reach there it was already sunrise, and we couldn't see the blue flame anymore, so we took a close look at the sulfur mine, it was really interesting

and the lake was really beautiful!

posing~

on our way down we stopped at the canteen to get something to eat, coz we din eat anything at all! n the only thing they have was instant noodle, n tat's probably the best instant noodle we ever had!

the view was great on our way down!

the entrance

After we went back to the hotel we took out bath, n the hot water juz ran out when it's my turn! juz my luck! >__<>

strawberry flower

And after everyone done showering, the people there gave us a tour at their coffee processing factory.

they leave the coffee beans out in the sun for them to dry

separated by class

some machines to separate them

tis is a LUWAK!

and tis is kopi luwak before they are processed!

coffee beans b4 they are dried

they use tis to roast the coffee beans

beans are soaked

and dried

these are macademian nuts! love them ^^

more coffee beans processing

the process flow

and it's done!

guess wat are these?

it's baby carrot!

some nice flower~

After some strolling there we had to leave, need to get to surabaya before sunset, and it's at least 4 hours drive! The view was not as nice as from yogyakarta, n we were really tired, so basically we juz slept in the car :-p

We stopped half way to have our dinner, n it was the best food we had in days!

it's ginger inside, but it's nice

name of the restaurant, drop by if u happen to come here!

The driver sort of lost his way at surabaya, and cant find the hotel we wanna go to. so i think we spent about an hour juz wondering around the city. Surabaya is the 2nd largest city in jawa, so it's quite a big city actually. Finally we found our hotel for the nite, Ibis, and we manage to get a room at around RM130.

The room is not bad

After settling down we were extremely tired, so we asked for massage in our room to relief all our hiking in the morning ^^

The next morning we decided to walk around on our own and asked the driver to pick us up juz before our flight. so we explored the city a little, went to the local market, souvenir shop (tat took us some effort to find) and tried some local food. It was really fun.

Finally it was time to go bek, so we packed our stuff and the driver drove us to the airport. We had our lunch at the airport and surprisingly the food was great! and it's the best meal we had in whole east jawa!

As we're flying off to different destination, I said goodbye to beautiful East Jawa first. It was truly an amazing trip, and it's still the most beautiful place that i've been until today. I might juz go bek again someday, hoho~