Quick Gateway : Sentul - Part 2

We followed the signs and it led us somewhere far (far) away from the waterfall. We asked the local and luckily there was no traffic, very smooth road. It was my first time driving in up hills with my baby c, so quite an experience it was for me. I have this habit of getting lost each time I drive even to the place I'm familiar with ha-ha-ha! I kept driving until I felt like we're lost but we weren't! But decided to stop and buy banana on the way. I really love banana though so yeah, the yellow attracts my eyes :p! 

After 30 minutes of driving, finally we arrived at the waterfall as it's nearby that banana's place (10 minutes away from there). I forgot to take picture of the entrance but it costs 20,000 IDR ($2) per person and 10,000 IDR ($1) for the car. You would also be seeing a simple writing that say "it's under construction" and for a while it made me wonder, how horrible the place would be. But on our way down to the waterfall, we found out some beautiful sceneries and since there are only few people who came so I just stopped the car to capture the beautiful landscape. The place is called "Air Terjun Bidadari atau Curug Bojongkoneng at Sentul Paradise Park.

The roads are still being fixed so I'm suggesting using big car, 4WD would be great but my baby C is more than enough. Despite the road isn't fixed but it's surely worth for the journey. The place may not look good but if you capture them, then you'll see the beauty. Mr. Gwumpieh also doubted my view at first, but well, my photos have proven that despite the place look just alright but I made them look beautiful", right! It took around 5 - 7 minutes to get into the waterfall and don't worry, you won't be walking far neither. It's quite near from the car park to the waterfall entrance. We arrived around 3.30-ish and it wasn't much people there.  If you don't bring your swimsuits, then don't worry, just put your feet in the water and you could feel how relaxing it's. Me and Ika were playing with the water but Mr Gwumpieh is sitting in the rock. The weather is so good, the breezy wind and yes, you'll be very tempted to swim (suggested to :D). 

 If you read about the place reviews', you would be reading tons of negative sides of this place but we, personally, love this place. Yes, we didn't swim and everything in that place are unorganized. But you never can except to get a good hospitality for this kind of place, so pretty much we found it normal. They are under-construction and apart from that traveling by using sedan isn't the best option neither so as for us, the rocky road didn't bother much as the views are worth it. Personally, you just have to take a look yourself but recommending you not to come on the weekend and bring all the stuff your own. Don't even think about having "picnic" there, just really go there for swimming. Make sure your tummy full and bring your own drink/snacks because it's true about the cafes or small stalls there aren't even opened. but this waterfall worth for a visit if you are going to swim! For people like me who's living in the city lifestyle, i feel refreshed. 

30 minutes passed so quick and you feel so fresh! We decided to go right away after numbers of people in group came, missing the peaceful moments. And here are the rest of photos which I captured before we went to Bogor. I didn't take any photos at Bogor since we only came there for opening the fasting. Thank GOD we arrived on time and yes, I was driving quite fast :p!

Finally, I'm also able to capture the beautiful scenery with my baby c and I really love the photo. I wish I could captured more photos since we were in a rush to go back to Bogor. It was really great quick gateway started the journey from 10am and arrived at Jakarta around 8pm. I drove the whole time except on the way back to Jakarta and it was really such good experience! Baby C is definitely suited me a lot, and very comfortable in driving him! Now, I feel like owning 4WD cars ha-ha-ha! 

I'm really thankful for given this quick journey as both of us are so much in need for holiday! A Movie didn't help much but this one day trip is surely refreshing. The truth, what made this journey worthwhile is the people. It wasn't the places we chose, but its the feeling we had on that day; the excitements. Even I only had two hours sleeping and yet it was really great for me. I felt so refresh after this trip and looking forward for more "surprising" trips with less planning! Thank the LORD for an awesome day, feeling so blessed and seriously had tons of fun! 

Quick Gateway : Sentul - Part 1

I have been trying to write few lines for this post but I couldn't even stayed for more than few seconds. Done with few movies and I remembered the rule of "two minutes" so let's try to focus into simple writings for just TWO minutes. Anyway, the story is my best friend came from Singapore to attend her best friend's wedding, and she got one day free to spend with. There were many places I wanted to bring her but lately, the weather in Jakarta was just being an ass! It could either raining most of the day and night or terribly sunny but thank GOD for this one day "awesome gateway" the weather was so sunny, humid and definitely worth for the journey. Since my driver is on fasting, I decided to drive from Jakarta - Bogor and I was so lucky the traffic was just smooth enough. But knowing I didn't have enough hours to sleep, so I drove slowly (well not too slow but slower than the usual) and definitely was super cranky, talk a lot about some unimportant things that I had no idea what even. Yes, often whenever I'm going for traveling, I wouldn't be able to sleep the day before and usually only slept the maximum of 4 hours only. 

(OMG It's more than two minutes and I'm still continue writing). Before we went to Bogor, we stopped first at Sentul for quick food.  Sentul is actually a very small city that is under-developed; the place is still full of trees and lately, they are doing on heavy promotions for this city that they are going to make the city more alive, full of villas and in other way around become the preference of weekend destination. I went there few months back with mom, and really love the place and you can get the feeling of NOT living in the city! I don't know whether it's worth for a visit or not but if you went to the right people, even a simple place would be very entertaining! 

Poor mr. Gwumpieh and my driver, they look definitly tired and exhausted and me and ika was so starving. The famous thing about Sentul is this Ah Pong (Floating Market) and the beautiful blue mosque right crossed it. There are few activities you could have done in the weekend because on the weekdays, the market itself is not functional well enough. We were there with no floating market, very sunny weather but their park is really fun to be explored. They have these some scientific games but sadly, some games are either closed or broken. The statues are also look funny and do spend some time to mess around with those games. 

One thing that we never thought that we would be spent so much hours at this small city! Sentul is very relaxing than Bogor/Puncak apart from the weather. But hey, our journey didn't stop here. While I was driving and on the way to Bogor by following the signage (getting through small roads), we are lost or maybe not. We saw ( i actually) the sign with the word "Air Terjun" (Waterfall) written and decided to pay a visit for a while before heading to Bogor. Check the PART II version to see more photos which even better than this one :)