Moving back.

After living in Bogor for almost 4 years, my family and i finally went back to our hometown at Mataram, Lombok Island, Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB). I post the picture of the island on my previous post, so you might take a look there. Lombok island is a part of NTB province, and Kota Mataram is the capital city of the province, located on the west side of the island. Lombok these days has been intensely promoted by the goverenment as one of the biggest tourism destination in Indonesia. So you guys may consider to take your holiday here, you wont be dissapointed. In Indonesia, Bali might be more popular for tourist, but for some ppl who already have visited both Bali and Lombok, they said that in Bali, you can see only Bali, but in Lombok, you can see both Lombok and Bali. I think its because here in Lombok, there also many Hinduism so you can see their culture here too.

My family and i travelled from Bogor to Mataram by car, with the only one driver, my Dad. At his age, with his personality (who doesn't even like to be on any journey, he just loved to stay at home) he's such an amazing driver. He drive carefully, but also not slow, he can do the zigzag which made our heart (the passanger's), bumped higher than ever. Ahza said it as 'jiwa muda si papa yang lagi keluar' and i think it's true -_- But when the sun's gone and the dark cover the sky, he cant drive fast because of his eyes, he can't see the road clearly, so Mum, Bayang, Ahza and me suddenly became a co-driver and we have to warned him when there's any other cars, curvaceous road, or any turning point.

We leaved Bogor on June the 26th at 4am and arrived at Jepara at 9pm. What i got from our 1st day journey: 1). There are SO MANY roadwork, because next month is Ramadhan and many ppl will do what we called as 'mudik'. One way road was used as two way road so traffic jams are everywhere. In every city. So we must be patient all the way back home. 2). Be aware of traffic accident. Some people didn't obey the traffic rules, and i saw more than 6 cars and trucks crashed on my way here. 3). The worst toll road is at Cirebon. You pay around Rp. 25k for the longest route but the road condition is hella sucks. Holes are everywhere, there's no worker except at toll gates, no proper road sign, and i saw around 7 cat corpse in the MIDDLE of the road. It was very dangerous. 4). Tegal is the city that have the most (proper) restaurant. Take a lunch here. Becauseme and my family decide to eat late, waiting til we're getting very very hungry, and at that time, we're already passed this city, and its really hard to find any proper restaurant, so we finally ended at a very very iyuuuhhh restaurant -_-

The second day, we leaved my granma house at around 5am and arrived at my aunty's house at Banyuwangi around 10pm. The lessons from our 2nd day: 1.) East Java's pantura road is waaaay different for west and center Java. The road is narrow and not that smooth. 2). We take a break at RM Mira, Babat, Tegal for luch and shalat. I fell for their sambal terasi :9 *drolling* 3). We got stopped by some naughty police whose trying to get some money from my father by saying that he break the solid line, but in reality, he didn't. Thank God he won the arguments over those annoying rat so they couldn't get what they want :p 4). The scariest road is at Hutan Baluran, Banyuwangi. The road's widht is just about 3,5m and for 2 way road, it's so narrow :| As a forest, all you can see is just a very very high trees and bush. There's no other vehicle except for very big trucks, we're the only one small cars there, so we must drive veeeery slowly. And because its a hill, the road is very very curvaceous and up and down, just like the south road, and we pass that road at 9pm for almost an hour, so it was very dark, there's no light except from the trucks. Its really scary that time, and i just knew that the forest is haunted. Wew. 5). My aunty and her husband works at Japfa, a food company that produce instant food from seafood, so all the foods she cooked are yummy seafoods too, finally a good story yah :9

The third day we leaved Banyuwangi at 6am (everyday we start an hour more late) sailing for 30mnts to Bali. And another hella thingy happened again. There was an accident at Bejera since the last night and caused a traffic jam for about 7km. We waited around an hour and the line is not moving any bit. So we decided to turn around and looked for another way to Tabanan. We take a liltle road that is VERY VERY VERYYYY going uphil, feels like we were almost fell back down.The road isn't smooth either. In short, that was the worst and the most dangerous road i ever passed in my life.

In that anxious situation, we met another car, a Balineese car, which is leading us all the way. If we were going too slow, they waited for us, when both of us lost the way, the driver get out from the car and ask to the local people. At the intersection, the driver get out from the car and help us to turn. That was my first time meeting such a very kind people, and it is in Bali. You got my respect, Bli. We didn't even have time to say thanks.

We took some break time going to Tanah Lot and then we continue our journey. We arrived at Padang Bai at 9pm and get on the ship at 10pm, sailing to Lembar for about 4 hours. It usually took 5 hours or more but at that time, the sea is very calm. At the ship, well, is a small one, very different from the ship i took from Merak to Bakauheni. There was only one big room in the second floor for all the passangers, and its not that comfortable because many ppl smoking and the seat is very uncomfy. I just sleep about an hour and then just spend the night sitting at the deck, enjoying the stars.

We landed at Lembar at 2am and because it's already passed midnite, we decided to go to granma's house and sleep there until midday, kekeke. We arrived at Cilinaya Indah at 2pm and start to cleaning up. The house is veeeeryyyy dirty, remember that the house is empty for about one month? We start cleaning, and until now, we are still cleaning because there's too much stuffs! I even haven't call the PDAM's officer for my research. Gosh. Wish everything will be alright here.

What a long post huh? I write this post quickly so please forgive wrong words, my grammar mistakes and my vocabularies limitation. I'll see you soon! *kissbye*

Love, DA <3