Senin, 24 Desember 2012

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-

Minggu, 16 Desember 2012

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-