Remember our first run toward Tritis, an we said we want to visit Gesing beach. Well here we went, it was an overcast day, nice for the ride and we got companion on our side Tebo and his minerva 150cc. Wild honey bee were on duty, after that night ride it got new clutch setting and carburetor setting. We went at noon, a stupid habit that always cost us daylight. The route we took was the same Siluk-Panggang route from Jogjakarta-Imogiri road. Same old story on the hill climb but we did better run with better engine service.
We reached Panggang and headed left, on the first intersection we found Gesing sign straight ahead, but the asphalt was terrible, we were told that there is better road farther to the east, in the T-junction with big banyan tree nearby. So we turn left headed east, we found the T junction with banyan tree but there's no sign whatsoever, the sign was only for those who arrive from the east direction. So we turn right to the south took the road and motored away, we were enjoying our ride until suddenly the asphalt disappeared and we felt sun in our left, it was afternoon which mean we were heading north WRONG WAY. We asked some people there and they said we overshot the T junction to the beach by 5 kilometers.
On our way back we were careful and scrutinized all small T-junction and read the road sign carefully, There we find to beaches sign Kripak beach (or something I'm not really sure) and finally Gesing beach. The sign was just a small woodboard 30x15cms and was handpainted, too small. The road was just asphalt with potholes, not so bad. Then we finally found the beach, no tourist ticket no parking lot, only 3 or 4 food vendors. It was not heavily commercialized, NICE. It was pristine fisherman beach, the beach was in a fjorded bay, the water was calm, you can swim safely here in the contrary with other southern open beach here which has strong wave and rip curl.
We didn't take the dip just hang there by the beach then went for a coffee in the food vendor nearby, there we met a US expat and a lifeguard who also agree that so far this was the most beautiful beach we could find, it was beautiful, quiet, lack of tourists, no electricity, no cellphone signal, and it was not heavily commercialized. Let's keep it that way. And why in the world I'm leaving breadcrumbs for you guys, so this is it, anyone reading this blog entry have to burn their computer, laptop, and gadget immediately.
*put Moby's porcelain on
Riding distant: 123km
Riding duration : 4 hours
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