First flight in the morning forced us to reach Airport by 3am. 2.5 hours to reach Tarakan and we spend it by continuing our sleep. Flight arrived earlier than scheduled. Tour leader was stand by and pick us at the departure terminal. He asked us to join with other participants and guess whom i met there and will spend 4 days together?? yep, my ex boyfriend's ex. that's true! it's a small world indeed.
After introducing ourselves to the rest participants, a minibus ready to transfered us to a small resto nearby. only 15 mins away. We had our late breakfast yet early lunch there while waiting another participants depart from Balikpapan. Clock shown 12 pm and finally they came!
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| Jakarta Team just arrived at Tarakan |
Complete team it is and ready to hit Maratua. We mobilize from this resto into the pier. But some problem happened. we can't get into the pier due some custom regulations. but my thought was ahh, paling mereka cmn pengen tambahan duit aja. c'mon this is Indonesia which apa2 UUD --> Ujung2 nya duit..
After a long wishy washy here and there, they allowed to entrance the pier. A small speed boat with capacity for 15 persons is ready to take us to Maratua.
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| Yep, here our small speedboat |
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| Maratua Paradise Resort. beautiful isn't it? |
The tour leader was give us the room key to all participants and asked us to leye2 before go to dinner time. Today we only able to see around the resort since the time to spend from Jakarta to Maratua spend almost 1 day.
Menu for dinner is nice, fresh fish from the sea i guess so tasty. Anyway, we decided to sleep earlier so that we can fully energised for tomorrow island hoping which starting on 8am.
Woke up and too bad, its heavy rain happened. Air lautnya pun tinggi gila. and there not much we can do. went to breakfast since all of us are hungry and then came back to the room waiting for the rain to stop. Around 11 am weather was improve. Eventhough sun is to shy to shine.
Today's itinerary will be snorkling go to Nabucco and snorkling with Jelly fish at Danau Kakaban.
Once arrived at Nabucco, speechless, white sand, crystal clear blue water is there! the view is amazing! all of us without any doubt hit the beach and took out our camera. Anyway, thanks to the tour leader. He succesfully made all of us looks like a model. jepret sini jepret sana. everything we do, it seems he dont want to loose the moment.
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| Nabucco Resort |
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| The Team at Nabucco |
Setelah puas2in untuk foto2, we went to Danau Kakaban to snorkling with the cutest Jelly fish. No need to worry Jelly fishnya gak bahaya. so we can snorkling freely without any fear. Anyway to reach this Danau Kakaban we have to step up the stairs which bit high and exhausted. Setelah perjuangan naik tangga2 itu, finally we reach there. Too bad, the water is not clear enough due to rain. Put our mask and snorkle up, lets swim with this cute little jelly fish. *tiba2 jdi pengen makan Jelly fish di Poke Sushi*
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| One of the Jelly fish |
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| that's me touching the Jelly fish! |
Anyway, Saturday it is! sun is shine brightly. and our next destination is too good to describe and let's the picture talks!! Enjoy :D :D
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| Gusung Island |
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Jump, Jump and we did it!
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| Playing with Water |
Enough to be narcist. Btw sun burn it is, but happy faces indeed. Nice dinner, sharing moments with the team perfectly ended our saturday night which means our last day of holiday in paradise.
Sunday, time to go home and back to reality. The weather is not too hot but thank God is not rainy day as well. We have to say good bye to Maratua Paradise resort to heading back to Tarakan.
9 o clock sharp we leave the resort, the sea is looks calm and we still have a take picture moment on the boat. 1 hour gone. everybody is try to have a good position to sleep. i look outside, wow, sky looks darker but no rain yet. but the sea looks very rough. The tour leader asked us to use the life vest indeed. too bad the life vest is not enough for all passengers. there's 2 little kid with their parents don't use it. Ombak pun makin parah. its achieved 2meters high and the water go inside to the boat. i look around and everybody is praying by themselves. Mulut komat kamit, muka pucet semua campur jadi satu. at that point of time, i just surrender. bener2 laut lepas, ombak tinggi, hujan and theres nothing we can do but pray. Kanan kiri pun tidak terlihat pulau2 itu. I text my parents and sister to pray for me. i prayed and after prayed, i feel relieve and i know God is with me. This is my first experience to feel the rough sea, high swell. 2 hours at rough sea. :( :( :( feels want to cry.
Finally, sea becomes a little bit calm, and i saw some island surrounded. i look out, the water is brown means we almost close to the tier. Supposedly time to achieve Tarakan is 3 hours but we spent 5 hours to reach. Gosh!thanks to the Nahkodaaa!!!!
Anyway, thank God we arrived safely at Tarakan. all of us very wet, our bag is also wet. and the tour leader was a very responsible one to open a hotel for us to bersih2. :D :D After we have our lunch, we went to the hotel to clean up everything.
After finish, they took us to the airport and will flight back to Jakarta with last flight from Tarakan. Anyway, deg2an belom selesai since one day before Lion Air has exeperiencing water landing di Bali. and all of us again nervous since we will have Lion Air to get back home. Such an extremely nervous feeling during this trip. But anyway, thank GOD, thanks universe that we can safely arrived at Jakarta.
I have another experience to share, have a new friends for sure and again, i am thankful and i am blessed i can see and feel that i can rely on God's love.
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