At the end of January 2014, I had a wonderful
moment with my friends. We went traveling to three beautiful beaches in
Pacitan. It was holiday and we had a plan to go to Pacitan and visit the beach.
Pacitan is famous with its beautiful beach. The famous ones are Srau and
Kalayar beach. And most of the beach is so quiet and not too many people visit
that beach whatsoever. I don’t really know why people are likely visit Bali or
Lombok. If they can take a look more closely, there are many beaches in Java
itself that are beautiful and also better than beach in Bali or Lombok. Take a
look at Sempu or Balekambang in Malang (search it on Google). I and my friends are not that mainstream and
followers because we have our own perspective of what beautiful beach is. So,
for us, it is unnecessary to visit Bali or Lombok this holiday. We are still
able to visit beautiful beach without even spent lot of money. That’s why guys.
Don’t be too main-stream. Guys, go googling and search wonderful beach near
your area. You will find some. Make sure you visit all of those beaches before
going to other beaches that are too far from you.
Enough chit chat…! Now, I will tell you my
story when I and my friends visiting Pacitan and explore three beaches there. I
went along with my AIESECer friends. They are Ari, Jodi, Udin, Molly, and
Layli. We planned to stay at Molly’s house in Pacitan (Thanks Molly!) for two
days. I, Udin, Jodi, and Molly were from Jogja for a national conference of
AIESEC a day before. So we used a Travel
(a transportation business that allowed you to call them went you need them,
available in certain cities or areas.). From Jogja-Pacitan, we spent 50.000
rupiah for each people. So, it is quiet cheap, right? And it takes
approximately 6 hours from Jogja to Pacitan. In the other hand, Layli and Ari
departed from Malang and also used a Travel. They spent 75.000 rupiah
each. It takes 8 hours from Malang to
Pacitan.
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| Pacitan is located in Java. |
In Pacitan, we rent three motorbikes for two
days. We spent total 210.000 rupiah. So, each person only spent 35.000 rupiah
(Cheap!). Well, thanks to Molly. She knows where the motorbike rental is. I was
surprised that Pacitan has Motorbike Rental. FYI, the road in Pacitan is quiet
extreme and dangerous. If you stayed in Pacitan, and want to go to the beach, I
recommend you to use a motorbike.
Day-1 Srau Beach &
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s house
The first day to start our first adventure in
Pacitan, we planned to go to Srau beach. Molly said this beach is so beautiful
and I couldn’t wait to see it. We spent 30 minutes on the bike (bit hurt in my
b**t!). A long the way I could see beautiful view of the hills, and also the
blue ocean. :”). I never saw that beautiful view before because I live in the
city. LOL
Anyway, we were all so excited seeing how
beautiful Srau beach was. Srau beach has white and clean sands like a paradise.
The ocean was so blue-green and relaxing. The beach is quiet too. The wave was
not really big but I recommend you not to swim there. The wave is still too
dangerous because Srau beach located in the south part of the island. It means
the sea is from Pacific Ocean which makes the wave relatively big and strong.
So be careful.
Even though we had been warned by the local
people near to the beach, we couldn’t hold to swim because the water was just
so perfect to swim. Don’t worry, we swim in the save area which the wave wasn’t
really dangerous because there was a big rock surround it.
Not only swimming, we also take a lot of
pictures, playing with the sands, and also tanning. This beach is so awesome.
If I have time, I will visit this beach one more time. I just love it. And If
you feel thirsty, there are local people who sell fresh coconut just for 5000
rupiah.
Everything cheap here, I think it is because there are not so many people know
this place.
Next, after we got back from the Srau beach, we
visit SBY’s house. It is located exactly in the city. It is the house where our
President live when he was childhood. The house wasn’t really special, but it
is old house with a several photograph of SBY. I knew where SBY sleeps when he
was a child. The house reminded me with my Grandma’s house in my hometown. If
you are a big fan of SBY, I recommend you to visit this place. J
Day 2- Klayar Beach
& Soge Beach
The second day was also exciting. We would
visit Klayar Beach located in opposite part of Srau. It takes longer time to go
there. Just in case, we checked the bike and other stuff. We didn’t want
something bad happened ruining our holiday. On the way, it was raining, and
unfortunately we didn’t bring rain-coat. Why the hell did we forget that?! Well
then we were forced to find a shelter for a while though I didn’t want to.. L Obviously, we require longer time
reaching the beach
After one and a half hour on the road, we are
finally arrived…..!!! Wohooo…. Klayar is wonderful. Even though many of my
friends said Klayar is beautiful, I was not really impressed with the beach. I
love Srau more. Klayar have the bigger wave, and totally dangerous for
swimming. But it is okay for surfing though. If I could say, Klayar has Sphinx-liked rocks
and this is one reason why Klayar is unique. The sand is not that clean and
white, it’s more into light brown and black sand. Honestly, I wasn’t really enjoying
the beach. It was too hot for me also. And we didn’t go for swim, just for
relaxing and taking pictures (a lot!)
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| Rocks! |
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| Love the air of Klayar beach... Sunbathing time! |
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| Reminds me of Bali.. |
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| Jump as you want it, guys. I just cant jump like that.... |
After that, we decided to go seeing another
beach, Soge Beach. But, it was evening and we were afraid for coming home too
late. Our travel would come picking us at 9 PM. Well, so we still decided to go
but we wouldn’t stay for too long at the beach. We only see the beach from
distance. The road we were taken was better and not too extreme like Srau and
Kalayar. It was flat route. However, it took us around 45 minutes to reach
Soge. While driving, we stop few times and took pictures. The road to Soge is
look like Grand Canyon.
Last day in Pacitan, we did really enjoy our
moments together. I would say thanks to Layli who had the idea of traveling to
Pacitan. Thanks to Molly, and her Grandma and Uncle who had been very friendly
during our visit in Pacitan.
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| Soge Beach |
Pacitan might be small city, but it has
wonderful beaches that worth to visit. And I don’t regret visiting Pacitan. I
would back someday.
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| Nothing cant stop us... Nice holiday with you all |
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