My Extraordinary Journey

My story was began when my boyfriend come to here, Purwokerto. Actually, we have a distance relationship between Jakarta and Purwokerto, so it is very difficult to meet up. Because of we feel bored with our activities, then we plan to have the long journey. On the may 2015, he came to here by train on the afternoon. He chooses the very cheap train to go to here because he wants to save his money for the journey. On the afternoon, I picked him on the train station and we went to have lunch together. Because of he do not patient to see the natural beauty in here, so we plan the journey to go to Dieng plateau. Then, after we pray magrib together on the mosque, we started our journey by my motorbike.

We count down the time at 6.30PM from here until Dieng we arrived at 00.00 on the midnight. Actually, we should arrive only for 4 hours, but we had an accident that we lost on the way to Dieng. It was our first time went to the west java, so we went to there only depends by the GPS. First of all, we went to Dieng by motorbike on 6.30PM, we take the way to Dieng that pass the Purbalingga, Banjarnegara, Wonosobo and ends in Dieng plateau area. However, before we got past Purbalingga, suddenly we got lost on the way on Purbalingga. Because of we started the jorney on the afternoon, so we cannot know the the area well. On our mindset, we should follow the GPS direction to get the right way, but in fact the GPS find the other way that pass the village which do not have lamp along the way.

On that village, as the assistant, I only took into the GPS direction to lead me to find the right way, but suddenly we realized that we still on the same way until1 hours. We feel that we keep forward on the way with following the GPS, but we still see the same house, and also the same forest. Without lights along the way, we only rely on the motorcycle for splitting the light darkness of the forest. After we realized that we lost, we finally decided to stop in a minimarket. Luckily, in minimarket there was a young man who kindly helped us to get out from the village. Before we came out, we had to ask if it was true that there are 3 elementary schools along the way, and the man answered with the full compassion to us. He explained that we were completely lost and there is only a 1 elementary school, so for 1 hour we were just around the same area up to 3 times. That was made us so terrible on that night. After telling of his experience, the man finally drove us to the local city that full of hustle. After arriving, we immediately go to Wonosobo until in 11.00PM.

Then, after we arrived on the Dieng plateau on the midnight, we were took a rest on the small kiosk before we hike to the Sikunir. Luckily, on the small kiosk there was also kind man who has many experienced about hiking on Sikunir. As a new tourist, we ask many questions about his experience and we also share our experience on the other place. We were very enjoyed to take a rest there until 03.00AM. Then he said that it was the right time to hike to the Sikunir, so we decided to hike to the Sikunir. After we prepared all the materials, especially the mineral water, immediately we hike with the other people there. First, I feel that I can hike to there easily, but in fact it was very hard to go there. There, I feel terrible cold so I had to wear a double jacket and thick gloves.

By the cold air and night air that only have little oxygen, I felt very claustrophobic. Uphill road also makes me the hassle of arranging breath until the end of the ascent. Patiently, my boyfriend always waiting for me who got difficulty to set of breath, energy and legs were very tired. Actually, we can arrive on Sikunir only for 30 minutes, but because of my physical tired we finally reached up to 1 hour duration. However, all of the tiredness and frightening trip lost already after we can see the beautiful expanse of mountains lined and white clouds. After waiting amid the cold, we finally get to see the sunrise over the plateau Sikunir. The perfect sun, the sea of white clouds and also very High Mountain make us enjoying the extraordinary scenery. The cold air eventually lost and warm air of sun replaced it. Since there, I feel how beautiful God creation is.