I never been water rafting before, kinda
nervous and excited toward it. I knew nothing about water rafting , I dint even
knew how to swim,”Oh Gosh”. This was a totally new experience for me.
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Sunday morning, we reached the Water
Rafting Ciwedey. The drive was long almost 4 hours The road toward the place
wasn’t good , but the greenish tea plantation and small village view along the way was
pleasant.I did sleep for few hours in
the van to boost up my energy for the upcoming extreme activities.
We served with warm ginger tea and
kuih(Indonesia pastry ).Put our beg and change in to the proper attire. Their
dint really set a rule for the dressing code, but personally advice to wear
something tight and long enough to cover
your arm and leg. The water rafting took almost 1 hour , it will be freaking
cold when you got wet , in the same time might got sunburn due long expose
under sun light .
UV is bad. It cause girl’s aging of skin
and sunburned. Applied a thin layer of waterproof sun block really help to
prevent it.
We gathered at the open area small field.
They gave us detail direction and instruction, and safety direction during
water rafting. They told us in Bahasa Indonesia, glad one of our friends help
to translate it in English.
We had been divided in several group, and grabbed
the safety jacket and safety cap for each. They really check on how we wear it
and help us to adjusted and fasten it in proper way.
Now its time to water rafting!! First ,
lets took a picture on our smart attire before water rafting. The one on the
right was our group’s professional assistant. He will guide us will few specific order direction and make sure we
were safe and enjoying the water
rafting.
The direction order , When he gave the
order of :
-
“BOOM” (bend
ourselves down )
-
“KIRI” (Move to the left)
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“KANAN” (Move to the right)
-
“GOYANG GOYANG” (Shaking and
bouncing ourselves on the boat)
-
“KEMBALI” (Back to our origin
position)
Normally the water rafting I saw in television
, all of the passengers will be given paddler. Kinda curious , the assistant
was the only one with paddler, we were not. However, I think this was better ,
even I had been given a paddler , I m pretty sure I wont used it and may loss
it during the water rafting time. Better for me to do nothing but holding on
the boat.
Very fun, I felt like myself in side the washing machine.The peaks and
valleys of calm waters and crazy rapids made for a truly fantastic day.I
shouted so much and I drank much water especially when this area.
The cap of mine kinda lose , so you can saw
me hold my cap in most of the photos.
You weren't getting thrashed about for
hours at a time, there was plenty of time to relax and enjoy the absolutely
GORGEOUS scenery, but there was still plenty of excitement to be had!
Our guide was a really calm man which confident and professional personality. The
way of he playing with the paddler in
the rapid like steering , was absolutely phenomenal! I kinda admitted we were
good in obey to his instruction too.
The photographers worth so much of praises.
Salute for their hard work, run few
miles with camera to capture the best moments of us. He transferred 2.5 G
of the photos and video soft copy for our group water rafting in pendrive. Every single pieces of photo and video tells
big story of our friendship.
Those ready printed photo available in half
A4 paper size, with price of 15k per pieces. I will treasure this sweet memories together ,
never forgotten.
After almost 1 hour ++ of water rafting, we
were exhausted and very hungry. Backed to the wooden house , showered and got change
into dry clothes.
The lunch was prepared , classic Indonesia meals. The lunch
also included in the water rafting package.
I
sure most of you will be interest to know the price
Tea time(KUIH + Ginger tea) + Water Rafting + Lunch + Photo@Video soft
copy = 175K rp person
#make sure booked the place 2-3 days
before, they need to prepare for the food.
The view of the lake , calm and peaceful.
