onward to the ocean

Really sorry, no motorcycling on this occasion, that sunday morning me, panji, and dharma metup with our international friends from AITI program from MIT, Nicole, Lynn, and Markus.

We got no plan that day and we just rolled away, we decided to go to the beach without any proper beach clothing, I meant jean and T-shirt only.

We head for the south karst hill-range of Gunung Kidul, meandering through the curvaceous hill road. With beautiful scenery, sorry guys no photograph, I was driving.

After two hours about 34km away from the city we reach the beaches. The beaches face Indian Ocean. Ngobaran and Nguyahan are two adjacent beaches. Ngobaran is a cliff rocky beach, it got Hindu temple on it. That place is believed as the final resting place of the last Hindu ruler in Java, King Brawijaya XVII from Majapahit empire in 14th century.

And then we started to make pictures as how tourist should behave. Lynn particularly is a photographer enthusiast, I think she made a lot of nice photographs, come on Lynn share your pictures with us.

Then we went to Nguyahan beach, which is sandy beach. Markus went for a dip, Nicole and the other walking up and down the beach. The waves was insanely huge that day, up until three meters high. We all got wet at some point, when we strolled by the waterline all for sudden the big wave just splashed on us and made our clothes wet (somehow it's not appropriate to tell, mmmm beat it)

At afternoon, chow time we ordered grilled and fried fishes from the local food stall. It was a long wait, we played card games and slap darma games hahaha. Finally, worth the wait the meal came and it was good, or maybe we are just too hungry and everything taste better.

After meal we went for another run to Nguyahan beach, did more tourist poses, at dusk we went back to the civilization.

We ended our day by dinner at Viavia Cafe, Prawirotaman. Great friendship, great food, great journey, great beers, what else would you need. It was a one fine sunday.

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