Senin, 28 April 2014

Bali Journal

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On 3 April 2014, My friends and I went to Bali in our school event named "Turbud". It means a culture trip. I have been to Bali many times, but it was the first time I went there with my friends. First of all, we must bring some requirements, such as clothes and many more. We gathered in Kebon Kawung station at 5.00 PM. The journey to Bali takes nearly 36 hours. First, we depart with Turangga train at 8 PM. The train wasn't delayed. We arrived at Gubeng Station in Surabaya at 8 AM. I never been in night train before. Also, I think that Bandung - Surabaya must take more than 12 hours, because if we drive it takes nearly a day. After arriving at Gubeng Station, we went to the bus. We continue our trip with bus. At noon, we have a lunch, also at night we have a dinner. At 8 PM, we take a ferry to Gilimanuk. It was already dark, so we can't see anything. After that, we continue our trip to Nirmala Hotel Denpasar. At 12 AM in the next day, we arrived. It was such a tiring journey.

In the first day, we went to Tanjung Benoa. There is a place that we can play watersports. I only takes trip to Turtle Island. The island was a place to conserve the turtles. I had pictures there with my friends. We having lunch there also. After finish play watersports, we went to Pudjamandala. It was a place that we can see 5 majority religions in Indonesia having their holy sites. It is the one and only in Indonesia. It reflects that tolerance is living in the middle of Bali's people. We hopes that this spirit can be applied in all regions in Indonesia, so we can be a better country. After that, we went to GWK. GWK is a abbreviation of Garuda Wisnu Kencana. It is statue complex that if all the statues is done, it will be the highest statue in the world. It is located in the Jimbaran Hills, so we can see the Airport, Kuta, and Denpasar City from there. In the place, there is a holy water source that if we drink them, our pray will be happened. I never see it before because it was been a long time since the last time I went there. As a Hindu, I pray and drink the water there. The GWK project is have been long suspended because the 1998 financial crisis. But now, in some places there, the project continued again. After see the statue, we play a game. The task is to finding all clues and guessing what is that. Our class won and we got prize money. After that, we headed to Jimbaran Bay for having a dinner. The dinner was amazing because we can see planes land and take-offs. There also some performance from our friends.

The second day, we went to Penglipuran Cultural Village. There we can see the ancient and traditional Bali Village. There are 2 different culture that lived in Bali, Bali Aga (known as old Bali) that lived only in some places like Penglipuran and Trunyan, and the others people called Bali Majapahit. Except Bali Aga people, we having a close relationship with java people because we are the remainders from Majapahit kingdom. After that, we went to Kintamani. There we only having a lunch, but the journey there is amazing. After finishing, we went to Sukawati. I was picked up by my uncle to my house in Bali. My house in Bali is not so far from Sukawati. I haven't met my grandfather and grandmother for a long time. We hat some chats. Then, I headed back to the hotel for the night event called 'Makrab'. We had some performance from our friends.

The last day, we went to Pandawa Beach. In the way there, we hat an accident. Our bus is crashed with a motorbike. So, we join with other buses to get there. Pandawa Beach is a new beach that previously blocked by hills. There we had tug of war game. Again, we win and get prize money. After that, we headed to Krisna. Krisna is a shopping store. Because I have a lot of them and not interested in shopping, I went to the bus. Some of my friends including me want to go to Kuta Beach. We must ride a elf car to there because bus wasn't permitted to go there. There we having some beachwalk. After that, we directly going to I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. We depart with AirAsia plane A320-200 at 5.30 PM. The touchdown was smooth, but I shocked because near the Bandung Airport, there were many tall buildings. We must move this airport to outer city as soon as possible, because the airport also didn't sufficient for flight. I arrived at home at 8 PM. It was such a amazing journey.  

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