Maroon River to Ngiroboyo Beach

Rent a boat and enjoy the view

Maron River

Maron River is located in Dersono Village, Pringkuku subdistric, Pacitan. It is about 30 km to west from the central of pacitan. This Maron river's long is about 3km and have its river mouth in Ngiroboyo Beach.

Many people may be does't know about the magnificent of this Maron river. But recently, many media is talking about how wonderful Maron river is. The way to go there is rather difficult with hill contour and the road that is not in good shape. 

This River is very important for the local, that is why, Maron river is clean with good care from them.Every year, people there hold a raw boat contest that every one can joint on it. 

If you are looking for recreation, it is a really good place. You can rent a raw boat with 50.000 s/d 150.000 fee and enjoy the view along Maroon River until Ngiroboyo Beach with the view of clean river with the green forest on the edge of the river, and it will be worth your time. Altough, actually you can use your own motor/ car to reach that beach.

Ngiroboyo Beach

The Ngiroboyo Beach

Ngiroboyo Beach is Located in Sambi sub Village, Punung distric, Pacitan. The Ngiroboyo Beach located is about 6 km from Klayar Beach. This beach is rather quiet. It is may be caused  by the access there is rather difficult for car. The cement read will be fount about 3km before the beach, it will be very difficult for a car if two car pass each other, further more with the hill contour in it. It is better to use motor cycle to reach that beach, or you can rent car that use local as its driver.

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Klayar Beach

Klayar Beach

Klayar Beach is about 40 km to west from Pacitan City. You can get there by using motorcycle or mini car. Klayar and Gong Cave are in one direction, it means you will find the road in wide and good condition until gong cave, then the road will transform into small and rather rough with so many curve, up and down like hill. It is a little bit difficult, but you will find a good view of green hill and valley on your way there.

Klayar does not have many visitor, except in holiday. In a normal day, you will find peoples fishing there. White sand spread out that area with clear-like-crystal wave that crush the shore, with coral reef at the left and right side. You can walk up the coral reef on the right side to enjoy the scenery better.

Satisfied with the scenery from the top, you can enjoy walking in the white shore. To the west, you will find a small river mouth. It has base with black sand with stripping white pattern which originally mixed with white sand from shore.

The high reef will be found at the very east of Klayar, it has shape like spinx. Exploring the reef area around it, you will find a coral hill with natural tunnel under it.

It is still in the East, you will find a natural fountain sprout about 7 meters high. It was happened because wave with strong current hit reef with a small crack. It made some of the water went under reef and sprouted up high like giant fountain with a sound like flute. People there called that sound as "suling laut".

That is all for Klayar Beach, meet you again in my next post. By.
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Goa Gong (Cave)

The entrance

Gong cave is located + 30 km west of Pacitan, precisely in Bomo village, Punung district. It is easy to get there with all types of vehicle. This area also have some facilities, such as; souvenir shops, restaurants, parking area, Mosque, etc.

Gong Cave has stalagtite and stalagmite that is said become the most beautiful one in South-east Asian. It has about 256 m depth, beside that it also has 5 polls; Rogo Pool, Panguripan Pool, Jiwo Pool, Kamulyan Pool, and Ralung Nisto Pool, which have magical value to heal disease.

Before you enter the entrance, you will find local dwellers assemble in front of the cave, offering their guide services and also flashlights. No about the entrance, it is not big and you will see many straws shape limestone ornaments on the ceiling of the cave. You will pass through a small crack, and after that, out of the expectation, this area is really big with amazing stalactites and stalagmites. Some lights have been set on some areas, giving dime light that makes this cave more beautiful.

There stair and grip handle bar inside the cave, so don't worry about wet and slippery soil. Exploring this room with beautiful limestone stalactites and stalagmites standing firmly supporting the cave as its pillars is just an unforgettable experience. Curtain shaped flowed stones can be seen in some corners, adorning this cave with their beautiful shapes.

That is all about Gong cave, and next, it will be Klayar Beach. See you next time.
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Watu Karung Beach

Watu Karung View

Watu karung Beach located in watu karung village, it is about 30 km to the west from Alon Alon pacitan. You can get there using car or motorcycle. The way to get there is rather difficult especially for new comer, because it has contour like hill, up and down, and the road is rather narrow.

This beach has white sands. The panorama is really beautiful, You can feel the softy of white sands,  with the blue wave and small coral islands, and the tranquility make it much better, because there is still a few people that have their vacation here, and that is why this beach is still clean from rubbish.

Watu Karung Beach also have a good wave for surfer. Many tourist come here, not only to enjoy the view, but also to surf. You can enjoy surf as free as you want here. This beach is favorite place to surf beside of Teleng Ria Beach.

There are no resort place, but some time, a few people ask permission to stay in villager's place, don't worry the villagers there are so friendly (as long as you behave ^^). You also can build up a tend here, there are many people who came to watu karung just for camping in their vacation. Many coconut tree there, so it is easy to build a tend. Sun rise and sun set is very beautiful there, it is worth to be enjoyed.

If you are a fishing lovers, it is also a good place for fishing. You can rent a small boat from fisherman, or choose the coral cliff as a place to fish. This is from me, hopefully you enjoy my post. See you in another post. Bye.

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Srau Beach

Srau Beach

Srau Beach is located in Candi Village, in sub district of Pringkuku, Pacitan. It is about 25 Km to the west of Alon-Alon Pacitan. We can get there use car or motor cycle. The road is in a good condition, but the contour is rather difficult, it is hill-like-mountain-road.

This beach informally is divided into three location, First location is the nearest from entrance portal. You can see so many unique coral that grow up high like a hill of coral in the coast line. The water is so clear with domination of blue color combined with white sands,  you will easily find alga (sea wed) here.

Second location will be found after we follow a small asphalt road from the entrance portal to the west. It is the most favorite location for visitor and tourist. You can find seat that are served there, face to beach, with roof. You can find many seller here, drink or crackers. The wave is small, but you still have to be careful for playing on the water. It is also the most favorite place for surfer, it is not only for local resident but also tourist. The most special icon of this location is a coral cave.

The third location, it is my most favorite one, located in the most west of srau beach. You can find a small bay, with the white sands, and also you can walk up hill there to see sunset, it was the most beautiful moment that you can ever find there, especially when you are with your couple.

Most of the shore in srau beach consist with coral and white sand. We, sometimes, can walk on the coral while our feet still sink in the water. Sometime you can find many sea creature such as; sea cucumber, starfish, and sea urchin.

If you dare, you can climb some high coral there to see the wonderful panorama of Ocean, and it is also good place to fishing. This is for srau beach, i hope this can help your vacation trip. See you next time. Bye.

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Banyu Anget Tirto Husodo (Hot Spring)

This Hot spring is located in Karangrejo village, Subdistrict of Arjosari, Pacitan city. It is about 15 Km to north from Alon Alon pacitan. The view there is nice, surrounded by hill side with the greenish plants on it. This hot spring is one of the favorite destination place for traveler in form of swimming pool.

Banyu Anget Tirto Husodo, originally means Hot Spring Water For Health. Peoples believe that bathing there can give health to the body and cure skin disease. This water actually contain a calcium and sulfur with low intensity. That is why you will not smell the sulfur scent like another hot spring. The water is clear and does not sticky in your body. "As long as i know, there are so many people which regain their health from rheumatism, uric acid, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and stroke." said the man that has his profession as guide therapy here.

There are 2 pool for adult, 1 pool for children, 10 bath room with hot (rather warm) water and 2 villa with hot spring and normal water facility. If you want to remain in the pool, you better fill your stomach first, because there are some case that some people feel queasy and even faint because of their empty stomach. 

The entrance ticket is Rp. 4.000 for each person. This Hot spring is open for 24 Hour. That is for Banyu Anget "Tirto Husodo", See you next time. Bye. 

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Note : Banyu Anget (hot spring), Tirto (Water), Husodo (Healthy)

Mercusuar (East Pancer) 2006

Mercusuar

Mercusuar is located on the very east of Teleng ria beach. This time, that mercusuar is passed by “Jalun Lintas Selatan” (South line road) which is still under construction while I write this post. This article is about mercusuar in 2006 with me and my friends.

Four people, there were me, riki, faris, and chinshop. We were friend in some extra curricular in senior high school which determined our guts to explore Mercusuar. That time, it was so scary to go there, since so many people said that the location was very dangerous, so many ghosts, so many monkeys, etc. We were young anyway, so it did not matter for us.

We started our adventure on Saturday afternoon, about 4pm using motorcycle through sirnoboyo village and stopped in “Tempat Pelelangan Ikan” (Fish auction Place), very east Teleng Ria Beach. We parked our motorcycle there, then continued walked through the forest and cliff above the shore following the fisherman path. It looked difficult to pass, the contour, the ravine (we walked on the ground path with the hill on our left side and 10 meters sharp corals waiting bellow us on the right side), we needed to be careful.

About 25 Minutes had passed. We were about half of our journey. Aha, I forgot to mention that we brought a map, compass, protactor, and altimeter (they were the tools for navigation) with us, we knew a little bit how to use that tools. That was why, we knew that we went in the right track. We arrived at Delon bay. It was so small. There were a hut for us to take a rest. That place apparently was used by the fisherman to dock their traditional canoe (small boat). The view was so beautiful there.

Actually, we don’t have enough time because the day was getting darker. It was so dangerous to walk there in darkness, so we walked faster. After a while, we passed somewhere like forest and we saw monkey there. Monkey was scary, but it was not about that, it was time which getting darker slowly. We walked faster and faster. And finally we arrived there about 5.30 pm. We were glad that we arrived safely.

We didn’t bring any proper tent, so we made an emergency tent by using rain robe. After that we took our food and drink. We did not forget to take a picture. We slept under sky with the stars as our lantern. So beautiful. That time we saw, just once, that the house lamp was lit up, yes, just once. Light rain sometimes pouring us, and driving us to our emergency tent.

We took more picture in the morning, explored that place, then met with a fisherman that gave us a big shrimp. We mixed it with instant noodle for our breakfast. After we satisfied, we walk home using different path. That time was raining heavily. It make us could not open our map (we were afraid that map will be broken), then the result is we walk around and around and make the distance is much longer that it had to be (strayed).

This was my experience with my friend. Hope that you all still remember that time. See you in my next post. 
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