Taman Beach

View from the Top Post

Taman beach is located in Ngadirojo district, Pacitan. This beach is part of South shore of Java with the characteristic of its big wave and rather dangerous to swim. The access to Taman beach is very easy. It is like if you want to go to another beach like Padi Dangkal Beach, Pidakan Beach, Soge Beach, Sidomulyo Beach, you will use the same path, JLS (South Line Road). Its wide and smooth road that, in this case, connect Kebonagung to Ngadirojo District.

This beach have a good panorama along the JLS, with the long shore and its high cliff. Whenever you are in your trip and pass this beach, it is better to stop for a while to rid away your tired. Sitting down under the shade of coconut tree and feel the blowing wind, it will be something that you can enjoy, refresh yourself.

This beach also give you the adventure spot, but if you are brave enough to conquer your fear. That is Flying Fox. Its length is about 400m. It said that Taman beach's Flying Fox is the longest in Indonesia.With Rp 25.000 as the fee for flying Fox, It will be worth to pump your adrenalin, right?

There are two post in flying Fox. It is the Top post as the start place to start the descending (sliding down) and Bottom Post as the finish. The way to Top post is rather heavy. You have to do a little bit exercise by walking up along the small path to the top cliff. Climbing and climbing, Keep your spirit friend.

When you reach the Top Post, you can see the full landscape of Taman beach, very long. It is time, to prepare your flying fox safety equipment, and enjoy your sliding to the bottom Post.

There is also a conservation place for turtle in Taman Beach. This conservation is managed by the local. Before they had collaborated with the bureau conservation of UMM (University Muhammadiyah Malang). This conservation is very helpful in turtle proliferation and keeping down the turtle from its extinction. Before the conservation was managed, there are a lot of fisherman that used the turtle flesh that was said had a rather expensive price and have impact in leading the turtle to near its extinction. With this conservation, local begin to know which animal that is protected and have to be keep about its existence. This conservation area is also opened for public. If you want to become the member or the investor, they will surely welcome you.

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Soge Beach

Soge Beach is located in Sidomulyo village, Ngadirojo sub district, Pacitan. It is about 40km to the east from the central of pacitan and can be reached within about 45 minuts. You can get there easily by follow JLS (South Line Road) route. The Road is wide and smooth with the mild contour.

Soge beach is very beautiful, and easy to be find, because its location is exactly next to JLS. There are also an awsome rivermouth with the green surrounding from plant coconut. It gives an refreshing image. There are wide parking area that be prepared by local, then walk a little bit by a footpath and you will find the river mouth.

Amazing, that is the proper word for "soge beach", The long winding river that made you can feel free to do anything, near the beach with the white sand that have its wave dancing magnificently formed. There are also a small lake that naturally formed because the sea water is not completely pulled by the subsiding wave. This lake was divided from the beach by the pile of white sand

The lake is not wide, but good enough for small boat. With the fee about Rp 25.000, you can rent a local fisherman boat to go around the lake to enjoy the panorama. Ah, and i forget to mention, there are also more beach that located in line with the soge beach, they are ; taman beach and tawang beach. I will post about this beach another time.

There is one fascinating more from soge. It is Soge bridge. Many people from central pacitan go to soge bridge just to take picture there. The bridge is cool anyway, designed in a futuristic form with the soge beach as its background, it make a total perfect destination for soge beach and its bridge.

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Pidakan Beach

Pidakan Shore

Pidakan beach is located in Gedon Kulon subvillage, Jetak village, Tulakan distric, Pacitan. It is about 30 Km to the east from central of pacitan.You can get there by motor cycle or car by Jalur Lintas Selatan (South Line Road). The road is wide and smooth and the location of Pidakan beach is near the Road. It must be easy to find.

The Pidakan beach is very beautiful beach indeed, coral, pebbles, and sand are spreading along the shore.
 
For the photography lover, this location is very suitable for it. If you like to explore this beach, you will definitely find starfish, sea urchin and also mangrove crabs.

There were some mystic story about Pidakan beach, it was said by the local, that recently, a photographer was trying to take a picture of a big rock there, and suddenly, that photographer looked like he was possessed immediately. People said, that was happened because that photographer was trying to bring home some pebble from pidakan beach without permission. May be that action made the spirits there angry. The point is, don't  disturb the nature, keep their preservation.

Although the facility in Pidakan beach is still incomplete,you can still have a wide parking area and also suitable to build your tent there. The toilet and bathroom is rather clean. The food stalls is only open at the day light, because the electric installation is till have not reach there yet.

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Padi (Dangkalan) Beach

Dangkalan Beach,  the original name of this beach is "Pantai Padi Dangkal", but people often called this beach by "Dangkal" or "Dangkalan", it means shallow. It is located in Wora-wari Village, Kebonagung District, Pacitan. It is about 25 Km from the central of Pacitan to the East about 40 minutes by motorcycle.

This beach is not really recognized yet. That makes you will find a little trouble to find this beach. You may will not find any written direction to Dangkalan Beach, but surely, you can ask. Your first clue is "Wora-Wari Bridge". It is located in JLS (south Line Road). That bridge is about 20 km from The center of Pacitan.

After finding that bridge, asking about the location for the "Dangkalan" beach will be better option. You will find another village road that cross the rice field. There is absolutely no sign on it.After a while, the asphalt will change into rocky road.

You will find that this place is really magnificent with the green rice field, the original landscape of a village. Then there will be a river mouth and the Dangkalan beach have be found. You can cross that river mouth easily, it is shallow.

Dangkalan beach has its sand in white. With the hill that surround this area, the green color from plants there, the rice fields, the wave, the corals and the cliff, it make completely magnificent landscape. There is also a ladder to climb up the cliff. By using that ladder, you can see the full scenery from the top of Dangkalan Beach.

There is also tradition that is held by the local. It is called "eret" or "eretan" (eret means pulling). Eret is a tradition for looking fish with using very long fishing-net that is put in the dangkalan beach. Both of the fishing-net tip is placed on the land, then it is pulled together to drive the fishes into the edge of the beach. The fish that was driven will be caught in that long fishing net.

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Bakung, Dung Dowo, Selok Kancil and Benelan Beaches

Coral in Whale form

Bakung beach is located in Karangnongko Village, Kebonagung district, Pacitan. It is about 20 Km to the East fom Alon Alon Pacitan. You can get there By JLS (South Line Road). Using motor cycle is preferable since the road is rather difficult after you leave the JLS, the asphalt road will be smaller, and the asphalt will change into paving road near the beach.

In Bakung Beach, there are unique coral that located in the middle of beach, it has form similar with the whale. I think that it is one the unique part from Bakung beach. The other one is the scene of the green rice field along the way there.

If you still have the strength to walk around, you can cross the hill follow the foot path that is made bu the local fisherman there and find another magnificent beaches. They are Dung Dowo, Selok Kancil and Benelan Beach.

Dung Dowo Beach

Dung Dowo has two beaches that is separated by the coral cliff. That beaches is only connected by the coral that formed naturally. You can cross to another beach of Dung Dowo by creeping that connecting coral. Need to be careful about that creeping, because it is rather difficult and slippery, and sometime the wave is crushing that way. That beach has white sand and decorated by the pretty small coral islands.

Selok Kancil Beach.
Selok kancil is not really vast and you can also see the activity of fisherman boats.

Benelan Beach
Benelan beach has form similar to selok Kanci. The only thing that make difference is the unique corals that constructed neatly in Benelan Beach

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Kali Uluh Beach

Kali uluh Beach is located in Klesem Village, Kebonagung subdistrict, Pacitan. It is about + 30 minutes from the center of pacitan to the East. First, you will pass JLS (Jalur Lintas Selatan) with the smooth and wide asphalt until you find Gayam Bridge. Right before that bridge, you turn left, up to a smaller road. About a few meters you will find Gayam Traditional Market, then turn right there to Klesem Village, follow the way across Gayam bridge.

When you have arrived close to beach area, the asphalt road turning into rough asphalt then change into macadam road after that. It is not only that, you will also find many difficult field, narrow road between hill, road side by side with ravine and the winding up and down road. That is the contour.

This broken and unpleasant field is appropriate for people with highly-adventure-soul. When you try to go to Kali Uluh Beach, it is recommended to use motor cycle that a car.

The tense and exhausted of journey will be healed when you arrive in location, because the Beauty of Kali uluh Beach. The panorama, glittering in front of your eyes. The white sand spread out the area, the rock and coral placed beauty originally by nature with the hill surround it.

This beach is still quiet from traveler. Peoples there use this place to relax, fishing and collecting sea shell. The rough journey but it will be worth.

That is all for Kali Uluh beach, See you next time in another post. Bye.
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Wawaran Beach

Wawaran beach located in district Kebonagung, Pacitan. It is about +20 km eastward from Alon Alon Pacitan. You can get there using motor cycle or car, but the road is a rather difficult, the last time i went there, it was a small asphalt road with very hard contour, but now, it has been easier now, because it pass the main south-line-road. It is not only about beach, but to the way there, you will see the scene of natural hill of pacitan city.

 

Let's back to wawaran, this beach is an productive place to catch fish. You will find many traditional fisherman with their traditional boat here, and it is cheaper to buy fish here.This beach beside having a good wave is also have a good quality fish. Actually, wawaran beach is central developing for fish-catching which has gotten reward from the Indonesian President, it is began to do modernization for fisherman here.

This beach is very beautiful with its white sands, with lining mangrove and coconut tree . The wave crushing coral everytime in another side, completing the beauty of Wawaran Beach. The water color is blue with rock boulder which show up an down because of wave. Wawaran beach is still natural, it is became livelihood for people there.

It is really traditional fisherman^^

It is not many visitor here, but it is worth to be seen, especially if you are in vacation trip. That is all, see you next time in my another post. bye.