Sunday, August 30, 2015

Culinary :: Pringgading Restaurant, Artos > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

Today is my grandfather's 85th birthday. So we celebrate it with dinner at Pringgading Restaurang, Grand Artos Magelang.

Birthday Fried Noodle

Juan Lo

Fried Squid with Salted Egg

Koloke

Friday, August 28, 2015

Movie :: Inside Out (2015)

Inside Out is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film[6] produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed and co-written by Pete Docter, the film is set in the mind of a young girl, Riley Andersen (Kaitlyn Dias), where five personified emotions—Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling)—try to lead her through life as she moves with her parents (Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan) to a new city. The film was co-directed and co-written by Ronnie del Carmen and produced by Jonas Rivera, with music composed by Michael Giacchino.

Docter first began developing Inside Out in 2009 after noticing changes in his daughter's personality as she grew older. The film's producers consulted numerous psychologists, including Dacher Keltner from the University of California, Berkeley, who helped revise the story emphasizing the neuropsychological findings that human emotions are mirrored in interpersonal relationships and can be significantly moderated by them.

Credit:
- Wikipedia
- Imdb


A girl named Riley is born in Minnesota, and within her mind, five manifestations of her emotions—Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger—come to life. The emotions live in Headquarters, Riley's conscious mind, where they influence Riley's actions and memories via a control console. Her new memories are housed in colored orbs, which are sent into storage at the end of every waking period. The most important or "core" memories are housed in a hub in Headquarters and power five "islands", each of which reflects a different aspect of Riley's personality. Joy acts as the dominant emotion to keep Riley in a happy state, but she and the others do not understand Sadness's purpose.

When Riley is 11 years old, her family relocates to San Francisco after her father gets a new job. Joy becomes concerned when Sadness begins touching happy memories, causing them to turn sad, so she tries to keep Sadness isolated. However, on Riley's first day at her new school, Sadness accidentally causes Riley to cry in front of her class, creating a sad core memory. Joy attempts to dispose of the new core memory before it reaches the central hub, but she accidentally knocks the other core memories loose in her struggle with Sadness, shutting down the personality islands and making them unstable. Before Joy can put them back, she, Sadness, and the core memories are sucked out of Headquarters through the memory tube leading to the rest of Riley's mind. They end up in the labyrinthine storage area of Riley's long-term memories and set out to return to Headquarters.

Anger, Disgust, and Fear attempt to maintain Riley's emotional state in Joy's absence, but inadvertently distance Riley from her parents, friends, and hobbies, resulting in her personality islands slowly crumbling and falling into the Memory Dump, an abyss where faded memories are disposed and forgotten. Anger inserts an idea to run away to Minnesota into the control console, believing they can produce new happy core memories there. Meanwhile, Joy and Sadness find Bing Bong, Riley's childhood imaginary friend, who is desperate to reconnect with her. He tells them they can get to Headquarters by riding the train of thought. After exploring different areas of Riley's mind, the three eventually catch the train, but it derails when another personality island falls.

As Riley prepares to board a bus bound for Minnesota, Joy attempts to use a "recall tube" to return to Headquarters, but the last personality island falls and breaks the tube, sending Joy into the Memory Dump along with Bing Bong. While despairingly looking through old memories, Joy discovers a sad memory in Riley's life that becomes happy when her parents and friends come to comfort her over losing a hockey game, causing her to realize Sadness's true importance: alerting others when Riley needs help.

Joy and Bing Bong try to use Bing Bong's discarded wagon rocket to get out of the Memory Dump, but after several failed attempts, Bing Bong realizes their combined weight is too much and jumps out and fades away, allowing Joy to escape. Joy uses various tools from Imagination Land to propel herself and Sadness to Headquarters, where they find that Anger's idea has disabled the control console, rendering Riley depressed and apathetic. At Joy's urging, Sadness takes control and successfully removes the idea, reactivating the console and prompting Riley to return home.

As Sadness reinstalls the core memories, Riley arrives home and breaks down in tears, confessing to her parents that she misses her old life. As her parents comfort and reassure her, Joy and Sadness work together to create a new, amalgamated core memory that creates a new personality island. A year later, Riley has adapted to her new home, and all her emotions now work together to help her lead a content, more emotionally complex life as she ages, with an expanded control console and additional personality islands produced by new core memories comprising multiple emotions.


The movie is about what we feel everyday. There's Joy, Sad, Angry, Disgust and Fear. And it tell us, if you never faced Sad, Angry, Disgust or Fear in your life and only Joy, then once the Joy dissapear from your life, you can't accept the fate.

So every feeling is important to build ourselves.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Hash :: Salaman > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

Today's track, is about 5km walk through forest. It's a good path, altough there's a small path, but it's not too difficult. And the scene is awesome. It's located at Salaman, Magelang Regency. And it's villager's road.

Starting path.. 



Good path

The journey end with follow the river..

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Movie :: Fantastic Four (2015)

Fantastic Four (stylized as Fant4stic) is a 2015 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. It is the third theatrical Fantastic Four film to be distributed by 20th Century Fox, and a reboot of the Fantastic Four film franchise. Directed by Josh Trank, with a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Trank, the film stars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey, and Tim Blake Nelson. In Fantastic Four, the team must learn to harness abilities gained from an alternate universe to save Earth from a friend turned enemy.


Credit: WIkipedia, IMDB

Friends Reed Richards (Miles Teller) and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell) have worked together on a prototype teleporter since childhood, eventually attracting the attention of Professor Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathey), director of the Baxter Foundation, a government-sponsored research institute for young prodigies. Reed is recruited to join them and aid Storm's children, scientist Sue Storm (Kate Mara) and the somewhat reckless technician Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), into completing a "Quantum Gate" designed by Storm's wayward protégé, Victor von Doom (Toby Kebbell), who begrudgingly agrees to help due to his unrequited feelings for Sue.

The experiment is successful, and the facility's supervisor, Dr. Allen (Tim Blake Nelson), plans to send a group from NASA to venture into a parallel dimension known as "Planet Zero". Disappointed at being denied the chance to join the expedition, Reed, Johnny, and Victor along with Ben use the Quantum Gate to embark on an unsanctioned voyage to Planet Zero, which they learn is a world filled with otherworldly substances. Victor attempts to touch the green-lava like substance, causing the surface they are in to collapse and the ground to erupt. Reed, Johnny, and Ben return to their shuttle just as Sue brings them back to Earth. Victor is left behind after he falls into the collapsing landscape. The machine explodes, altering Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben on a molecular-genetic level, affording them super-human conditions and abilities beyond their control: Reed can stretch like rubber, Sue can become invisible and generate force fields of energy, Johnny can engulf his entire body in flames and fly, and Ben becomes bigger and develops a rock-like hide which gives him enhanced strength and durability. They are then placed in government custody and confinement to be studied and have their conditions and abilities tested. Blaming himself for the accident, Reed escapes from the facility.

One year later, Reed, now a fugitive, is located in Central America by Sue and captured by Ben, who has become a military asset along with Johnny and Sue. Johnny and Sue have been outfitted with specialized suits, one of which Reed later receives, designed to keep up with their conditions and abilities and to help them stabilize, control, and contain their abilities. Reed is brought to Area 57, where Dr. Allen conscripts him to open another portal to Planet Zero in exchange for giving Reed the necessary resources to find a cure. Arriving in Planet Zero, Dr. Allen's explorers find Victor, who has been fused to his spacesuit and can now control the elements, as well as having telekinetic abilities, and bring him back to Earth. Believing the human race needs to be destroyed so he can rebuild Planet Zero in his image, Victor kills scientists and soldiers in the base including Dr. Allen and Professor Storm and returns to Planet Zero using the Quantum Gate, with Ben, Johnny, Reed, and Sue in pursuit.

Now dubbing himself "Doom", he activates a portal on Planet Zero using a structure he made while in the realm, that begins consuming the landscape of the Earth. He is confronted by the four and, after a destructive battle, Ben punches Doom into the portal's energy beam, disintegrating him, while Johnny closes the portal. Returning to Earth, the group is rewarded for their heroics by being given a new base of operations by the United States military. They decide to use their powers to help people and adopt the mantle of the "Fantastic Four".


My rate: ***** (OK)

Hash :: Pulosaren > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

Today Hash route is at Pulosaren, a village in Magelang Regency.

Parking place is Pulosaren Soccer Field, near the traditional market. 

If you go straight, you will arrive at Wonosobo. Go to Kaliangkrik direction from Magelang then go straight. In the middle of the road, there's three section then turn right. Just follow the road until you pass a market and there's a soccer field in there.

The route distance is 1.85km with beautiful scene. Altought the weather is really cold (less than 20 degree celcius), but didn't make us afraid to walk.


The scene is beautiful. At first, we walk along of the main road then turn right. We walk in the small path with Mt Sumbing as the background and also along the path there's so many plants like tobaco, cabbage, and etc.











Saturday, August 15, 2015

Culinary :: Javanica Cafe, Kebon > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

Located at Jl Pajang, or famous with name Kebon, Magelang, this is one of new cafe in Magelang. This cafe served breakfast menu.

I often eat breakfast in here. They also has Jenang / Dodol, a sweet confection, speciality desert of Indonesia.

Jenang Candil

Es Roti
The Menu:
- Gado-gado
- Salad Solo
- Mie Kopyok
- Nasi Bakmoy

They have speciality food for everyday. And they close at Tuesday.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Culinary :: Cimory > Bawen ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

Finally, I have a chance to visit this place. I have been heard this place quiet times. Located at Bawen, near Semarang. The place is big. Once you enter, you will see the shop and restaurant.

For those who has children, you can see the cow farm and see how to make milk / yoghurt. Of course you have to pay for it.

Website: http://cimory.com/

I only visit the restaurant and drink some milk.





Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Movie :: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)

Credit:
- Wikipedia
- IMDB
- Official Website

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a 2015 American action spy film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie. It is the fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible series and was preceded by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011). The film stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, and Alec Baldwin with Cruise, Renner, Pegg, and Rhames reprising their roles from previous films. Rogue Nation is produced by Cruise, J. J. Abrams, and David Ellison of Skydance Productions. In the film, IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is on the run from the U.S. government as he tries to prove the existence of the Syndicate, an international criminal consortium.


After intercepting nerve gas being sold to terrorists, Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is convinced he can prove the existence of the Syndicate, an international criminal consortium. Reporting to an IMF substation to receive his next orders, Hunt is captured by the Syndicate, but escapes a torture chamber led by Syndicate member Janik "Bone Doctor" Vinter (Jens Hultén) with the help of disavowed MI6 agent and Syndicate operative Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson). Meanwhile, CIA director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) and IMF agent William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) appear before a committee of Senators and Hunley succeeds in having the IMF disbanded and absorbed into the CIA, guaranteeing that Hunt will be captured within the day. Cut off from the IMF, Hunt starts following his only lead: a blonde man in glasses, later identified as Solomon Lane (Sean Harris).

Six months later, Hunt remains on the run. Unable to find the Syndicate without help, he enlists former colleague Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), arranging for him to attend the opera Turandot in Vienna to search for Lane, whom he suspects is the Syndicate's leader. Despite stopping three shooters including Faust, the Austrian Chancellor is killed by a car bomb.

Brandt recruits former agent Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) to find Hunt and prevent Hunley's team from killing him. Using a likeness of Faust left by Hunt, Brandt and Stickell are able to track Hunt, Dunn, and Faust to Morocco, where the three are infiltrating a secure underwater server beneath a power station. After having stolen what they believe to be a ledger containing the names of all Syndicate agents, Faust takes the drive and a chase ensues involving Ethan, his group, the Syndicate members, and Faust. Faust escapes, but Dunn reveals he had already made a copy of the data.

Faust returns to London, and attempts to pass the file to her handler, Attlee (Simon McBurney), who compels her to return to the Syndicate and finish her mission. She returns to Lane, only to find that Attlee has wiped the drive, which in fact contained an encrypted, British-government “red box” that requires the Prime Minister's biometrics in order to be unlocked. The former IMF agents confront Faust, but when Lane's men abduct Dunn, they are told they must deliver a decrypted copy of the drive to Lane. Despite the objections of the others, Hunt realizes Lane will always have a plan to acquire the files; believing the only certain way to stop him is to confront him, Hunt agrees to the ultimatum.

Brandt contacts Hunley and reveals their location. At a charity auction, the two try to prevent Hunt from attacking the Prime Minister, whom they and Attlee take to a secure room. Hunt, having posed as Attlee, reveals himself and has the Prime Minister confirm the existence of the Syndicate, a classified project to perform missions without oversight, though the Prime Minister said he had ordered the project canceled before it could leave the planning stages, as he considered it to be too extreme. When the real Attlee arrives, Hunt subdues him and he admits that he had been covering up the existence of the Syndicate since Lane hijacked the project and went rogue.

Stickell discovers the file actually contains access to billions in currency. Hunt destroys the file and tells Lane he memorized the data, in order to force Lane to release Dunn and Faust in exchange for what he knows. Dunn escapes to Stickell and Brandt while Ethan and Faust are chased by Vinter and his men across the streets of London where they are separated. Faust kills Vinter in a knife fight while Ethan draws Lane into the open and lures him into a tunnel system revealed to be a bulletproof cell where he is gassed, just as he had gassed Hunt to capture him initially, and taken into custody.

Sometime later, Hunley and Brandt return to the oversight committee, where Hunley secures the reinstatement of the IMF, claiming that his previous efforts to have it disbanded were all to allow Hunt to go undercover. The committee, though skeptical, approves, and outside the chambers, Brandt addresses Hunley as "Mr. Secretary".



If you didn't watch the previous MI, then maybe you will a little confuse in the begining.

Culinary :: Tiramisu Breadtalk

My friends said, that The Tiramisu from Breadtalk is delicious. So, this time, I want to try it.


It's delicious, and creamy.

Culinary :: Istana Mie dan Es, Artos > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

One of the restaurant that we can always find at Mall in Indonesia is Istana Mie dan Es. It's famous with it's noodle and ice. But, there's also another food in here.

Just like when I eat there with my friends, at one of their franchise in Armada Town Square, Magelang.

I order Rice with Butter Sauce.


This restaurant has different method of order compare with other common restaurant in Indonesia. In here, we have to pay first then eat and after finished, we just leave. We pay the food, not in cashier, but the waiter / waitress will collect our order and count it in front of us.

If you need change, they will collect your money first then give the change after put it on registry.

The food here has standard price for restaurant in mall. Not too expensive, but not too cheap either. And it's convenient to eat here because they have a lot of menu.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Culinary :: Pepper Lunch > Yogyakarta ~ Special District of Yogyakarta ~ Indonesia

Credit: on web

Pepper Lunch is a "fast-steak" restaurant franchise popular in the Tokyo area. There are 226 restaurants in Japan, 23 in South Korea and Hong Kong, 33 in China, 6 in Taiwan, 7 in Malaysia, 9 in Australia, 42 in Indonesia, 16 in Thailand, 36 in Singapore, 2 in Macau, 6 in Vietnam, and 30 in Philippines, as well as 2 branches in Canada.

Pepper Lunch is a subsidiary of Pepper Food Service Co., Ltd. The restaurant's international operations are managed by Suntory F&B International. All of Pepper Lunch's branches serve Pepsi beverage products (as PepsiCo is a business partner of Suntory). The branch in Macau serve Coca Cola.

Pepper Lunch was created in 1994 by chef and inventor Kunio Ichinose, who wanted to serve quality fast food without hiring a chef. He devised a method using hot metal plates that are heated to 500 degrees Fahrenheit (260 Celsius) by an electromagnetic cooker. The raw meat with vegetables and/or rice are then placed on the plates, where they cook in front of the customer. The meat can be eaten rare or well done, depending on the customer's preference. The meal is then mixed with a choice of either the special honey brown sauce (Amakuchi) or garlic soy sauce (Karakuchi).

Credit: Wikipedia

The first time I try this Pepper Lunch Restaurant was in Jakarta. Then, they open in Yogyakarta. When me and my mom visit Yogya to shopping, we decided to eat in here.

First we have to order and pay in cashier. We ordered Beef Pepper Rice.

Credit: on web
Then we waiting at our table.


When the food come, don't touch the plate because it's hot. Everything that put inside the plate except rice, is raw. So you have to cooked it on the plate by let it touch the plate until it reached your taste, well done, medium well, etc.

Beef Pepper Rice after mix

It taste like fried rice, but with blackpepper. You can add the seasoning by your self such as soy sauce, ketchup, tomato sauce, etc.

Becareful, because it's still hot.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Movie :: Pixels (2015)

Credit: Wikipedia

Pixels is a 2015 American science fiction comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures, 1492 Pictures and Happy Madison Productions. The film was directed by Chris Columbus. Its screenplay was written by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, with a screen story penned by Tim Herlihy and based on French director Patrick Jean's 2010 short film of the same name. The film stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan, Brian Cox, Ashley Benson, and Jane Krakowski. The film's plot has extraterrestrials misinterpreting video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, and invading Earth using technology inspired by games such as Pac-Man and Space Invaders. To counter the alien assault, the United States hire former arcade champions to lead the planet's defense.


In the summer of 1982, Sam Brenner and Will Cooper are thirteen year olds that love playing in the local arcade. Brenner enters an arcade game world championships. At the event, the MC tells that a time capsule will be launched into space containing elements of the championships. Brenner and Cooper meet Ludlow Lamonsoff, a child who's in love with Lady Lisa (the main character of the game Dojo Quest). Brenner wins nearly every game, but loses to Eddie Plant in Donkey Kong.

In the present, Brenner works for a company that installs software and Cooper is the President of the United States. In Guam, a U.S. military base is attacked. The soldiers try to fight back, but are easily defeated, and one soldier is abducted.

Brenner is sent to work at the home of Violet Van Patten, a divorcée who lives with her son Matty. Brenner heads to the White House after receiving a call from Cooper. To his surprise, he finds out that Violet is a Lieutenant Colonel. Cooper brings Brenner into the Oval Office to show him the attack in the base. Brenner says that the way the attack was carried out was like in the classic version of the video game Galaga.

Later, Brenner drives home when Ludlow suddenly appears inside his van. Ludlow takes Brenner to his home where he says that the aliens are sending creatures with classic video game designs to attack. Ludlow found a message using manipulated footage to explain their plans: The tape was found and seen as a threat; they are using the video games as a challenge. If they win three rounds, they will claim the Earth. They show the video to Cooper and determine that the next attack will happen in India, but are too late; the Taj Mahal is attacked with Arkanoid paddles and another person is abducted.

Brenner and Ludlow are brought in to "train" soldiers by showing them how to play these games. Violet shows Brenner and Ludlow that the pixels are taken down by strong light beams. The next attack will happen in London. The soldiers brace for attack in Hyde Park. Centipede appears in the sky. Brenner tells the men to shoot the head and anticipate the pattern, but they lack the skills, so more appear. Brenner and Ludlow take over with permission from Cooper and they defeat them. The aliens send a message to congratulate them on their victory, and give the Duck Hunt dog as a trophy to an old lady, but remind that they are leading 2-1.

New York City is the place of the next attack. Ludlow and Cooper say that they need help. Brenner, Cooper, and Violet go to a prison to find Eddie, who is serving a sentence for counts of fraud. Cooper agrees to let Eddie out of prison and relinquish his taxes in exchange for his help.

The team discovers that they are going to face Pac-Man and in order to succeed they need to defeat it three times. Violet presents them with four cars based on the ghosts in Pac-Man, with the other car driven by the game's creator Toru Iwatani. In the downtown area Iwatani tries to appeal to Pac-Man as a son, but gets his hand chomped off instead. The remaining three chase after Pac-Man. He eats a power pellet, which gives him the ability to eat ghosts, and eats Ludlow's car as he jumps. Eddie hits the first Pac-Man after catching up to him quickly to the surprise of everyone. The second one also gets taken out by Eddie, but going after the third, he winds up accidentally driving into the East River. Brenner chases him but Pac-Man finds another power pellet. Brenner drives backwards through a parking garage. The power pellet wears off, and Pac-Man is defeated. As a result, they're given Q*bert as a trophy.

The team have a ball to celebrate the victory. All seems going well, until the aliens send another message saying that someone cheated and the contest for the planet has been forfeited. Matty finds out Eddie used a speed cheat during the battle with Pac-Man. Eddie flees the scene and Matty is abducted.

The aliens bring down more video games upon Washington, D.C. as they prepare to take over. Cooper joins the team, while Ludlow stays to fight. One of the aliens takes the form of Lady Lisa. She fights him until he says he loves her, and they share a kiss. Eddie comes to fight as well. Brenner, Violet, Cooper and Q*Bert get brought up to the space ship where they have to face Donkey Kong. Everyone tries to reach the captives as Donkey Kong rolls barrels down. Matty reveals to Brenner what he found out about Eddie. Brenner takes the hammer and throws it at Donkey Kong, destroying him. This causes the video games to freeze and then are brought back up to the ship, including Lady Lisa.

The team is recognized as heroes. A peace agreement has been made with the aliens. Eddie reluctantly tells Brenner he is the best video game player. Q*bert randomly transforms into Lady Lisa, to Ludlow's delight. Brenner and Violet become a couple, while Eddie gets a text message from Serena Williams and Martha Stewart. The alien ship finally departs from Earth, and Iwatani's hand is restored. One year later Ludlow and Lisa are married and parents of five Q*berts.


Pixels, this movie make me has nostalgia about pacman and other Nintendo games. The plot is good, I think. And I enjoy this movie, even for some people maybe the plot is a little confusing.

Hash :: Chicken Church and Puntuk Setumbu (1) > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

Today hash's destination is Chicken Church. Why it is named Chicken Church? Because, people who build this building, which likes Chicken, was actually build a prayer place. The owner said, it is actually called Dove not chicken.

This abandoned building, has been there a long time ago. I have been there 3 to 4 times to hash / jogging. But, nowadays, the building is become more and more famous.

The way to go there also rebuild. It's hard to reach there before, but now it's easier even you have to climb for 45 degrees road.

Now, the building is used as tourists spot for local people. Those who wants to go up, have to pay IDR 5.000 for Indonesian, and IDR 10.000 for foreigner.

For further information, http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gereja-ayam-the-abandoned-chicken-church


From the Chicken-Dove-Church building, we decided to walk to Puntuk Setumbu. It took about 20 minutes to go there with small path and climb up. But the beautiful scene welcome us on the peak. Under the main location of Puntuk Setumbu, there's a small place to see sunrise, just walk a little to bottom. Not much crowded and we can enjoy it quietly.

view from under the main location of Puntuk Setumbu

Borobudur Temple view from under the main location of Puntuk Setumbu

The main location of Puntuk Setumbu


Puntuk Setumbu, this place will be full of people in the morning before sunrise

This is the path to under Puntuk Setumbu location.

The path to Chicken-Dove-Church. We go back here to the car park.

Monday, August 3, 2015

Culinary :: Coffee House, Bruns > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

The coffee drink in this cafe is delicious. You should try when you come to Magelang. Located at Pecinan (Pemuda Street), from Alun-Alun magelang City, about 200m.


Berkat Garuda Indonesia, Saya bisa mengunjungi Jember

Sewaktu saya cek email, tiba-tiba terlihat email dari Garuda Indonesia dengan subjek "Bagi Kisah Perjalanan Anda, Menangkan Tiket Garuda Indonesia Gratis!". Wow... Kebetulan saya suka menulis kisah perjalanan saya, hanya saja karena keterbatasan waktu, jadi masih tertahan dengan trip tahun lalu. Akhirnya, hari ini saya sempatkan untuk menulis blog, untuk ikut kompetisi ini. 

Jember, adalah sebuah kabupaten di Jawa Timur. Kebetulan saya ada saudara disana, sehingga saya bisa mengetahui ada tempat bernama Jember. Sudah lama mereka meminta saya main kesana, tapi karena pertimbangan transportasi (waktu itu belum ada penerbangan Garuda ke Jember), bepergian sendirian, dan tidak ingin merepotkan saudara saya yang antar-jemput di Surabaya, jadi belum terpikirkan untuk main ke sana.

Akhir tahun 2014, saudara saya tiba-tiba mengajak saya mengunjungi Gunung Bromo dan Kawah Ijen, dan menghabiskan waktu di Jember di bulan Juni 2015. Saya ingat, Garuda Indonesia baru saja membuka rute baru Surabaya-Jember PP. Setelah menimbang-nimbang, dan ternyata kebetulan saya senggang di waktu tripnya, akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk ikut trip tersebut.

Berangkat dari Yogyakarta ke Surabaya dengan Lion Air, saya dijemput oleh saudara di Surabaya. Lalu kami bersama-sama menuju ke Gunung Bromo.


Kami menginap di Lava View Lodge. Kebetulan juga hotel yang kami pilih, terletak di paling atas, sehingga dari lobby hotel bisa terlihat pemandangan Kawah Bromo dan beberapa gunung lainnya dengan jelas. 

Bangun subuh, kita naik jeep sewaan melewati padang pasir hanya untuk melihat sunrise dari Penanjakan 1 yang benar-benar indah, dan menikmati keindahan gunung Bromo dan beberapa gunung disekitarnya. Lalu setelah itu menuju ke bawah kaki gunung dan dilanjutkan mendaki dengan kuda yang diakhiri dengan naik 250 anak tangga menuju ke Kawah Bromo. 

Mengunjungi Gunung Bromo benar-benar merupakan petualangan yang lain daripada trip-trip saya lainnya. 

Pemandangan Gunung Bromo dari Penanjakan 1
Kawah Gunung Bromo
Kami sempatkan juga mengunjungi Padang Rumput Savana atau dikenal dengan nama Lembah Jemplang atau ada juga yang bilang Bukit Teletubbies karena menyerupai rumah Teletubbies dalam film anak-anak. Sayangnya, kata Guide kita, yang sekaligus merupakan supir dari jeep sewaan, bulan Juni merupakan musim kemarau, sehingga padang rumput tersebut tidak sehijau sewaktu musim hujan (sekitar bulan Maret / April). 

Dari Padang Savana, kami mengunjungi Pasir Berbisik yang sayangnya angin kurang bertiup sehingga tidak terdengar bisikan pasir. 

Selain pengalaman menjelajahi Gunung Bromo, yang tidak kalah serunya juga mendaki Gunung Ijen. Dimana kami berangkat subuh dari Jember, yang ditempuh sekitar 2-3 jam dengan mobil melewati daerah perhutani. Lalu jalan naik sekitar 2 jam'an, dan disambut dengan pemandangan kawah yang menakjubkan. Yang biking terpesona lagi adalah, para pembawa belerang. Sehari mereka bisa 2x naik-turun Gunung Ijen, dimana waktu turun gunung bisa membawah bongkahan belerang seberat hampir 100kg. Saya yang tidak membawa apa-apa saja merasa berat dalam melangkah, apalagi kalau bawa beban seberat itu. Benar-benar salut kepada mereka...

Perjalanan menuju Kawah Ijen 
Kawah Ijen
Selain kedua lokasi wisata diatas, sisanya saya habiskan di Jember. Kesan pertama terhadap kabupaten ini, kabupaten yang cukup ramai, dan suasananya hidup, perekonomiannya juga termasuk maju. Banyak tempat makan yang merupakan khas Jember dan selalu ramai. Saya sempat ke pantai Watu Ulo, Pantai Papuma, dan cafe Gumitir. Juga sempat menuju Banyuwangi yang kira-kira 2 jam dari Jember, hanya untuk menyebrang ke pulau Bali dengan kapal feri dan makan Ayam Betutu Men Tempeh yang terkenal.

Tidak terasa waktu trip 6 hari cepat berlalu.

Saya kembali ke Surabaya, dengan pesawat Garuda Indonesia dari Jember. Inilah kenapa saya memutuskan ikut trip ini karena ada pesawat menuju/dari Jember, karena saya bepergian sendiri, dan transportasi yang paling nyaman adalah dengan terbang. Meskipun bandara Jember ternyata letaknya agak pinggiran dan bandaranya tidak terlalu besar, namun uniknya, karena yang beroperasi disitu hanya Garuda Indonesia dan Susi Air, dan jam penerbangan Garuda Indonesia untuk kedatangan dan keberangkatan masing-masing hanya 1x per hari, di sela-sela jam kedatangan (jam 09:50) dan keberangkatan (jam 10:20), banyak penduduk di sekitar bandara yang datang membawa anak-anak mereka berjajar dipinggiran pagar bandara hanya sekedar untuk melihat pesawat mendarat dan pesawat tinggal landas.

Meskipun merupakan pesawat baling-baling, namun pesawat Garuda ini cukup nyaman. Bahkan meski perjalanan hanya 55 menit, saya mendapatkan snack yang benar-benar ekslusif.


Setiba di Surabaya, yang ternyata pesawat Garuda Indonesia mendarat di terminal 2 bandara International Juanda, saya harus pindah ke terminal 1 karena penerbangan ke Yogyakarta menggunakan Sriwijaya. Dan untungnya ada shuttle bus gratis jadi saya tidak perlu bingung-bingung cari taksi.