Karimun Jawa Islands | Beach

Hi Dawn :-D

I start to write this after 2 months i went to Karimun Jawa Islands haha, and suddenly i should write this before i went to Semarang for business trip. Because it reminds me about this great trips :-D.

Overall i like the beaches and landscapes here besides Derawan Island, it took 4 days too. Please check the weather first, i went to Semarang one night in last day for culinary of course :p. And tomorrow will my culinary (read : business) trip in Semarang. 

From the plane

When i waited for the ship, took some pictures around

Old ship around Jepara Port

So lets start the story.. I went from Jakarta to Semarang by the early morning flight (because it was very cheap around 300k for return tickets), and i used a travel there. I forgot the name but my friend did it for me. They picked us at Semarang Airport to Jepara Seaport and went by a ship - express bahari (choose the fast one, believe me :p. I suggest you to check for the ship schedule or just bought from local people and you can go from Semarang Seaport also just check for the ship schedule). I arrived around 3 pm in Karimun Jawa main island, took a lunch and went to Nirwana Beach (Private Beach with resorts).

Right View in Nirwana Beach

Left View in Nirwana Beach, one foreigner couple there :p

Sun Set from the top of Karimun Jawa Main Island

You can enjoy your night at port looking the stars :-D, hope the stars fall and make a wish like i did :p haha.. Or you can find food around the square near the small ports. At second day, i went to Menjangan Kecil (Small) Island for snorkeling, took a picture, and have fun for sure :), Geleang (means white) Island for a break and took a lunch, Gosong (means an island when the water went recede) Cemara Island for a while and took a picture, and Tanjung Gelam Island for sunset = took a picture and closing my day.

in sea port before i went by the small ship to another island

The landscape was cool right? but the weather was very HOT

Sunset at Tanjung Gelam

Sunset at Tanjung Gelam

Sunset at Tanjung Gelam

Sunset at Tanjung Gelam

The third day also the same went from one island to another islands :), first i went to around the shipwrecked and actually i just could see the edge of the ship. It was very deep around 2-4 meters from the surface. And looked at the fish :p. Then i went to Tengah (Middle) Island for lunch and i didn't realize i fell a sleep here in wood house lol around 1 hour :p. Haha and before i took my lunch, my friend found a lot of small clown fish (nemo) behind the island. My friend found it when we want to take a pee :p. After that i went to another island called Kecil (Small) Island for snorkeling again, etc. Last for closing the day, i saw sharks (a lot), it was so scary :p.

Found it in the morning when i walked around homestay

In here you can see the clown fish

Clown Fish at its house

Clown Fish say Hi

landscape in some island

around the shark breeder/captivity

around the shark breeder/captivity

Sunset took from the ship

Last day got back to Semarang at the evening (check this link for semarang city) and find a lot of food until the morning :p haha.. Just try tahu petis (tomorrow i will find this food again :p --> finally i didn't have time to find this food -_-')

hotel in semarang

And this was me took by my colleague aka my boss @edosunt around the hot and cold water meet. Yup some place is warm and another side is cold. So you will see a lot of fishes everywhere :-D

in the sea, don't try this at the sea without any life jacket

in the sea, don't try this at the sea without any life jacket

-danny williams | @dannywongso-

Lingxiao Cave | Beautiful Yangchun, the Land of Abundance and Prosperity and Picturesque Yangchun, Magnificient Gallery

Do you ever hear this province "Yangchun" in China Mainland?

Yeah i also got some problems when i did a research about this place in google (and in english words for sure). I couldn't find any information about this place actually. But i will give the information from the cave card i got before :

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     Yangchun, which is literally taken from "the north of the Moyang River and the spring-like weather of all seassons", is situated in the southwest port of Guangdong Province. The city sits along the upper reaches of Moyang River and is entitled at the National Geological Park for its great scenery and earns the reputation as one of country's top tourism cities.
      Yangchun is a historical city and has very unique resources for its abundant places of historical interest and scenic beauty. For example, Lingxiao Cave ranks as the best among all the scenic caves in Southern China while Kontong Cave is one of the four fairy crags according to Chinese Legends; Baishi waterfall is regarded as the finest mountain waterfall in southern Guangdong and Chundu is the China's first radon hotspring.
     There is also the Baiyong Provinvial Natural Reserve. In addition, many famous drama or movies have been shot in Chunwan Stone Forest adding more charisma to the city's tourism industry. The top 8 scenic spot in Yangchun are widely known as : Lingxiao Cave, Ehuang Elegant Waterfall, Chunwan Specatacle, Donghu Dawn, Kongtong Trace of Zen, Moyang Archaic Rhyme, Chundu Radon Hotspring and Phoenix Sunrise. All these beautiful sceneries, the splendid landscape plus the city's distinctive cultural heritage and the innocent life have earned Yangchun the titles of "Beautiful Yangchun, the Land of Abundance and Prosperity" and "Picturesque Yangchun, Magnificient Gallery".
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"..earns the reputation as one of country's top tourism cities..." maybe for chinese mainland :p, because i didn't meet foreigners (except me). But i met hongkong/another china tourism also in Yangchun.

And i didn't go anyplace in this card information because i just read it completely right now (yes right now when i am writing this after 3 months :p). But still if i already read it there, i didn't have time too (excuse) and it is very hard to find accomodation and to do any communication (include my mom even she can talk chinese, but seems the dialect was different). So let my relatives did whole the things :p haha.. (can i say that we are lucky..)

So according my mom experience, hehe (why i went there because i have some relatives), we went from Shenzhen by bus and took cost around 130 RMB for almost 5 hours. And went back to Guangzhou (took cost around 100 RMB for almost 3.5 hours).

speechless i can't read the language

About the city hmm, no transportation at all, we should call a taxi by phone (such as a reservation and connection). But the taxi looked like private car. Rarely, i saw young people (age between 23 - 40) . Seems they worked outside of this province and go to another big province like Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, etc. Laterly, i met a lot of young people went to another cities when i waited the bus to Guangzhou. Surprisingly the food here had very big size like this picture -_____-' and very oily (hueks :p) for the price it was cheap!.

maybe half of this food is oil

it is very delicious and big fish

speechless ~~ too big :p, they alwasy gave a soup as an "appetizer" before main foods

Another Souppp~~. Seriously soupss..plenty of waterrr...

i don't know the name but too oily and salty :p

too big :p

almost full:p

enough~~

can't eat more (hueks)

i remembered i can't eat more for this last food ...

Actually I just went to a Lingxiao Cave and visits some of my relatives. Absolutely this cave is very awesome, they maintain and make their tourism with very good. The place actually flat (excited at the first) every where are stalagmites/stones with some colours of the lamps. And according to the guide tour (yeah we waited for a while, and the guide tour will bring and tell us about this cave) . The guide tour just told us, about some stalagmites/stones looked like monkey, god/godess, people face, etc. I just curious of one thing you know that this cave came up from the sea to the surface? i still can't understand how was the process. But i believe it will take thousand of years for sure.

Outside of the cave

the path

 

 

from below, they already made the stairs

and we went by the ship also because below the cave is small river

from below and arround

some guides

the ceiling with the lights

they played a song and some attractions here

cool! the colours with the lamps and the songs :)

And this is the picture of the city at night :

-danny williams | @dannywongso-

Annyeong Haseyo! Yes i go to Seoul, South Korea

Yes finally!!!

What i can say this is just like a dream for me. I like Seoul, but i am not a fan of their K-POP or etc. I just like some of their songs and their movies. But until now i can't believe i went there and in the great season (autumn) when everything look awesome and really beautiful ._. ...

I went there without any plan and i decided to go there just 2 weeks before, without any tickets, visa, schedule, mentally, etc :p.. So finally i got the visa just 1 days before my flight LoL (but because some reasons i reschedule it to the 'day' next week). Of course i need travel agent to help me do this haha.

A lot of documents i need to provide for the visa (as i remembered the china visa is easier :p) such as : your bank account statement (min : 40 million IDR), working letter from your company, their form, passport, your photos, etc (if you have somebody there it is easier, ask them to make an invitation letter for you and a letter that explain : he/she will pay for your expenses). If you are married woman it will need some documents again such as a letter from your husband to declare he already permit you, and if you are a widow you need your husband death letter. And still a lot of if -_-, if you a married woman without any job so you need a letter from your husband that he will provide the money for your expenses.

I choose Korean Air flight because it is cheaper rather than Garuda/SQ at that time :p, and i didn't choose Air Asia for this time lol, 7 hours in the flight i didn't want suffer ;p.

You can go anywhere in Seoul by Seoul Metro (i used Jihachul - IoS application), it is very easy at least for me and you can see the maps clearyly in every station. And check this website it will help you so much.

And somehow you can find discount voucher (around 5-15%) or etc if you are foreigner in some websites. (just try to google first). Because i like korean food i am not getting problem with it, but maybe some people will not like the foods :p. The people here is nice not all, but not all korean people like KPop as we seen in TV :). Plastics surgery is very common here :-D you will see the brosur or the advertisement :)

This is the place that i went randomly :

Market 

Namdaemun
I went here to buy some stuffs for my colleagues, just challenge your self and try to go every corner and building :). A lot of hiding place or stuff here hahaha just make sure you didn't get lost. Some stuffs are very cheap in the building rather than in outside or main streets.

Myeongdong
I went here to walk around, a lot of famous outlet here, include cosmetic shops, foods, clothings, etc. And you can go to Lotte Department Store and just make sure you go to Lotte Duty Free (the cosmetics shops are cheaper from the outside in Seoul, but it needs your passport and flight numbers/date. And just use your credit cards because it is using USD not WON)

Insadong
 I went here to walk around hahaha, a lot of arts shops, foods. And i tried the most expensive food i ever ate in Seoul (the price around 20.000 WON/person, you must eat minimum two persons).

It is called Korean Foods Set

Dongdaemun 
I got bore here haha, because the shops just sell jacket/blanket for winter, i didn't buy anything - my country just have two seassons. So maybe this is a 'heaven' when summer come. A lot of cool clothes will sell here :p.

Hongik University
I like to walk here a lot of various shops here. 

Zoo 

The place is very cheap for me just 3.000 won and a lot of animals and they maintain it very well. The landscape is daebak!! (cool in korea language) and you must walk far to go this place (but you can ride a car/cable car just don't worry. If you have money you will enjoy the luxury :p)

Seoul Zoo

Around Seoul Zoo

Around Seoul Zoo

Museum and History Place 
All the place is awesome hehe, they maintain their museum and the place so well and luxurious. They appreciate all their history. Such as a wow for me and wow for the place until now haha. Seoul is the best rather than my country or another country i ever went. You can google by yourself which place do you want and the history is very long if i should write it hehe. Because i went a lot of this kinna place :-D.

Around Gyeongbokgung Palace

hmm it should be around namsan :p

time capsule they will open it in next hundred years

what is this? the place for kimchi etc

The kids are playing in traditional village

Hanok Village between buildings

Inside Hanok Village

Around Gyeongbokgung Palace

Around Gyeongbokgung Palace

Nami Island
I buy the ticket in Insadong you can search in google :p or the link above hehe. I went by bus near Insadong (yeah you can go by seoul metro, but i thought it will take your time a lot to change the train and you should take a taxi after the last station). This island full of arts, nice place they make this place as a tourist place and drama place (winter sonata). For the story of this place? just google yaaa :p

Random leaves

Empty Way :p

Is this winter sonata place?

Food Court Area

Park
The place is in hangang river side, you can hire for bicycle hehe and enjoy the moment here.

Yeudo Park - Hangang Riverside

Yeudo Park - Below the bridge

Sunset At Yeudo Park

Mountain
I went to Bukhansan Mountain lol, haha.. I just follow some ahjumma/ahjushi (uncle/auntie in korea language) after i went out from the Seoul Metro station :-D, because we need to go there by bus and walk until tired :p haha. Nice place the tracks already prepared by them. And we can choose the tracks we want :p, the short or long one.

Finally even not in the top :p but i can get the good picture

The Coulours

Tired Legs :p

Random

Nseoul Tower and Teddy Bear Museum
Just go here you will find a lock with love message and the seoul beautifull from the top of namsan :-D

From the top of NSeoul Tower

From the top of NSeoul Tower

Teddy Bear became famous because a korean movie :p

so cute right

a lot of locks with love message

At the end Seoul is daebak! and someday i will go there again for sure.

-danny williams | @dannywongso-