We couldn’t feel that now it’s already
15th June, and this is the time for us to go to Garut, west Java. We went from
the house to Graha hijau 1 to Garut together. We took two busses. First bus was
for 7 Bilingual class, meanwhile 8 Bilingual class was in the second bus. First, we wanted to
visit Cangkuang temple. In the middle of the trip we went to rest area in Tol
Cipularang for take a nap or maybe go to the toilet, but Rafli, Nahda, and Dea
went to the circle K to buy a drink.
After that we back to
the trip, in the km 90-100 some friends look scared, and other friends just
have fun like sing, take a pictures with his/her friends, etc. During the trip we saw
a lot of the tea garden which spread very large. Beside a tea garden, we also
saw a rice field but in here also called padi, a rice field was rich with padi.
Started from new padi, untill padi which was well done. Beside the rice field
which was spread, we also saw many mountains which stood meatly and also trees
which were very tall.
We arrived in
Cangkuang temple at 11:00 for local time. To arrive the location of the temple,
we had to across a lake in taking getek (a small tradisional boat made from
bamboo) for about 10-15 minutes. Cangkuang temple was found in the 8th
century. Around the temple there were people’s housing which is called Pulo
village. There were only 6 houses. Old people said that the houses couldn’t be
added and the male couldn’t stayed in this place so the male just could see the
temple but can’t lived here. In 1 house might be stayed one person. If she
died, she could be replaced by his daughter. The person who loved there was
descendent of Eyang Embah Dalem Arif Muhammad.
Beside the temple,
there was a cementery of Eyang Embah Dalem Arif Muhammad. The temple keeper
said that Eyang Embah Dalem Arif Muhammad was one of the people from majapahit
kingdom who spread islam religion in Java Island. He was asked to fight VOC. He
didn’t comeback because he was afraid of Netherlands they wanted to kill him. After
being satisfied the original of Cangkuang temple, We retuned to have lunch.
Before luch, the boys prayed jum’at ahead. After that, the girls prayed Dzuhur.
We ahead lunch at 12:45 local time. We had fried chicken, fried tempe, soup,
and krupuk, but don’t forget a rice. Wa ate hungryly.
The
second place we wanted to see was Papandayan crater but Mr. Shaifullah said
that we can’t went to Papandayan because we must walk 1-5 km after we out from
the bus. so we went to Kamojang crater. In the trip to this crater, we show a
lot of plantations of corn, cassava, and also sesim. Sesim is a kind of a
vegetable that people usually used for salty, fresh vegetable. There are a lot
of sesim farmers who were harvesting their sesim. We were lucky to see this farmers
with their sesim.
We
arrived in crater area at 15:10 local time. After we got off from the bus, we
visited that crater together. The sun was shining, but the temperature in
crater area was very cold. Before going to Kamojang crater, we saw which was
come out from the mountain. The vapor come out hardly from the land. We
continued our trip on foot. Arriving at the crater, we smelt sulphur fom there.
The sulphur liked the smelt boiled eggs. The water which come out was very very
hot, one of our friends said that her shoe is melted so she ran to the bus and
stayed there. And we prayed ashar before continuing our trip.
After
that, we entered to the bus quickly to go to Cipaganti hotel. We went to the
hotel from crater at 16:20 local time. In the hotel, we entered to our own room
bussed on the group which were decided. After having settled our stuff, we took
a bath. The water was hot so thet was shy we had to be patient to take a bath
untill the water became worm. Waiting for our turn to take a bath. We watched
tv.
Dinner
arrived, we were a quickly gathering to have dinner which was ready. The menu
was fresh fish, capcay, and rice. After that, we were
informed everything we would do next day. We wanted to visit chocodot, the
center of souvenir, and leater handycraft. 01:00 local time Rafli was swam in
the bathtub and after that he was sat down in front of his room alone because
his other friends was slept.
Next
day, we woke up at 05:00 o’clock in the morning and we prayed subuh. We took
time to be relax before the time to take a bath came. The sun was shining which
was very beautiful. The scenery in Cipaganti hotel was very beautiful too.
Especially in the morning. The menu
of breakfast was fried rice, cucumber, tomato, omelete, and krupuk. We had
breakfast in our room. We checked out at 09:00 local time. Before we checked
Rafli, and Nufus were feed the fishes. We went to next destination, that is
center of Garut souvenir. This place was close from the hotel. We took a bus
only 5 minutes. There, we bought souvenir for our family at home.
Being
satisfied by the souvenir, we went to the center of leather handcraft. There,
many people sold leather as they were handcraft. Unfortunetly, we couldn’t see
the process of making directly. And now,
this is the exciting time... that we went to chocodot! You know what? We could
find a specific and delicious snack as a combination of chocolate and dodol,
WOW... YUMMY.... After we
bought some chocodot we went to Cibiuk for lunch. But before we ate the lunch
we must queue, the foods for lunch now is rice, sambal mangga, fried tempe,
fried chicken, etc seems like yesterday.
After we ate the lunch
we played at the playground, and After we played, we
went to themosque for prayed Dzuhur but some friends do jamak or do prayed
Dzuhur and Ashar. After we prayed, we
went home. When we wait for other friends we saw the “Musisi Jalanan Group”
sang “ Iwak Peyek” from Trio macan, and we just laugh. When we went to home we
do karaoke with other friends and one of the song that we sang is “Orang utan”
and we sang very powerfull. Meanwhile in the back side of the bus some friends
slept and we take a picture of them. Bye Garut, hope we could visit you next
time. Your beautiful scenery was really amazing and unforgotable.
In the middle of our
trip to go to our home, we stop for went to the toilet or take a nap in the
rest area of Tol Cipularang, but Rafli went to the KFC’s counter because he
said he was hungry. And after that we back to our trip to went home. In Cilandak we saw the
traffict but fortunately we don’t wait for the traffict. Even tired but we
enjoyed our trip :D thanks Garut!
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