GOA LO CAVING

Caving on South Suburb area of Malang City

     Malang City has many tourism subjects such as beaches, mountains, historical places. But only few people ever heard or know if there are many adventurous caves wait to be explored. Yess!!! We probably visited wonderful beaches, or hiked to extraordinary mountains, but… only few people had sneaked in between solid rock formations, climbing, crawling, and pitching into small holes. Thus only some of us ever seen one of those magnificent caves,this is it...

    Yup…. Those attractive spots are hidden under the ground surfaces. We need to climb down inside and let our eyes capture them. Some people said there are three bacis rules of caving (and other nature spots as well) ; Take nothing but picture, Leave nothing but footprints, and Kill nothing but time.

    So… when people ask you, "What did you find down there?”,  we might said that we  found only mud, streams , waterponds, large empty spaces and tight crawls, ordinary cave animals, and few kinds of waterfalls :D, then the paradise you've visited may stay more safe as less people going there by themselves ; and ...

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SEMERU SUMMIT TRAIL

Semeru summit, the highest Mountain at Java

     Hiking to the highest mountain and standing on the top –next to the crater- at one of the most active volcano on Java Island, would be an extraordinary experience. Thus, Semeru Mountain is a stratovolcano, with the summit elevation 3676 meter. 

    Semeru has become one of favotrite mountain hike destination; the adventures, the gorgeous landscapes and the story lies behind has become the main attractions. It takes 3 days to reach the top of Semeru. At first, we walk about 6 hours from the start point (Ranu Pane Village) to Ranu Kumbolo –a lake. Then continue hiking over Tanjakan Cinta hill to reach a wide savana called oro-oro ombo. And next, we pass some forests with varies vegetations such as : pine trees, edelweiss, and also algaed branches. Usually people will stop at Kalimati, then start again to reach the top of semeru in early morning the next day. 

    
   Semeru Mountain highly related with Hindu and Buddhist cosmology, the name of Semeru originally came from Meru or Sumeru which means the abode of the God. With that old legend’s history about how this mountain exists in Java Island, Semeru Mountain becomes the most sacred mountain in Java-Bali. Every places in Semeru Mountain is a worship places for Hindu religion. Such as Ranu Kumbolo, this lake located on the 2.400 meter high and 14 hectare wide has mystical legend, this lake was created by Hindus God to complete his asceticism. 

     The beauty sceneries, mystical folklores, the adventures, plus standing on the top and having experience when the volcano blow out some huge hot steam and smoke ; and sometimes accompanied with ashes as well ; all of these experiences would be the most unforgettable experience on Java. 

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BALURAN NATIONAL PARK

Wild Life at Baluran

    Watching wild peacocks running freely, and do some eye-spy over junglefowl behind those bushes , and even staring an Eagle fling high above the sky. Those are few activities among many other that we can do at Baluran National Park.

     Baluran National Park located in north-east part of Java Island, nearby Banyuwangi city. This park cover about 25.000 hectares, consists of mountains area, monsoon forests area, African savana's looks and also coastlines.

      At the mountains area there is Mount Baluran with the top around 1.247 meter as the background view behind the wide savannah. The monsoon forests area are home for monkeys, some birds species, and become shelter for deers, and buffaloes (any hunting activities is being restrictied here) during night. 

    The main spectacular view at Baluran National Park is the African savanna's looks at Bengkol, yess…! There you'll spot a wide range of bright yellow grass covering huge space of land, and completed by some indigeneous animals which living at savana such as : Banteng (Bos javanicus), buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) and also Rusa (Deer Cervus timorensis). Those animals being set free at the park, just like any animal daily life on an extra ordinary typical land which looks like African's savana.

   Before we're getting completely satisfied by the magnificent of mountain savana's sceneries and animals, we need to look further to the other side of the national park. There some white sandy beaches are waiting for you with its wide view started from Bama beach. We can do some canoeing by using very simple boat and certainly we have to experience the underwater view by snorkeling and explore more under the sea along those coral reefs.

By : Fiki

      With the large area and so much activities we can do, it won’t be enough to visit this park only for one day. Why don't we stay some couple days over there and explore the real safari like style without waiting too far to experience them on Africa? It's already Africa van Java tho..

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BATU CITY & PARAGLIDING

Batu City

By: Dayat

Standing 680-1700 meter above the sea level with temperature approximately 15-19 celcius, Batu City nowadays become one of most visited entertaining city in East Java. Only 19 km from Malang and 2 hours drive from Surabaya.

The geographical surrounding in Batu City suits for farming, especially vegetable and fruits plantations. Most of local people are farmer; they plant kinds of vegetable on wide terrace-stage of mountain nearby, such as carrots, cauliflowers, potatoes, etc.

By : Dayat

Batu City also produce very popular product, it's apple. Batu apple well known all across Indonesia , the variety of apples which farmer usually grows are Manalagi apple, Anna apple, Wanglin apple and Rome Beauty apple. Each apples have different flavor, texture and shape. It won’t be complete when we visit Batu City without taste the fresh and healthy of Batu City's apple. 
 Since Dutch colonial era, Batu has became favorite destinations place for recreation of  colonial officers, they called it De Kleine Switzerland in Java. So there are many colonial buildings in Batu City, some of them are abandoned  but the other still well managed until now; such as Hotel Kartika Wijaya which founded by Armenian Sarkies Brothers (founders of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore) on late 1800. 

By : Dayat

There are many attractive places to see, such as Cangar hot spring, Coban Rondo water fall, Hiking to Arjuno Mountain or to Welirang Mountain to see sulfur mine. Batu City not only provide nature trips but also interesting activities  to do such as : paragliding at Banyak Mountain, visiting Agro tourism to know what it feels to be traditional farmer and you can do water trekking or rafting. 

 

It is never enough to describe the beauty of Batu City, so  OURTRIP1^st kindly guide you to be there, details you may check thru our store website www.ourtripfirst.com

SEMPU LAGOON TREKKING

Segara Anakan - Sempu Island 

Have you ever visited a kind of lagoon? 

Local people mention the lagoon as Segara Anakan. Segara means Ocean, and Anakan means little kid, so it means “little ocean” and located hidden inside Sempu Island.

Yes.!!.. this beautiful lagoon - with white sandy beach - is hidden inside the island. We need to cross the bay, using traditional boat and walk along the forest to get there.

We could see diversity of rain forest plants, such as type of Artocarpus elasticus, rattans, mangroves and sometime we could see the silvered-leaf monkey also boar.

In the lagoon, we could lay down on the sand, snorkeling, and also climb up the the hill to see the blue ocean behind.

Come see the lagoon and enjoy your adventure here.  
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BROMO CRATER VOLCANO

Sunrise at Bromo Mountain

Bromo is one of the most extraordinary volcano mountain in the world. With the high around 2,329 meter above the sea, Bromo is accessible for everyone for climb up to the top see through inside of creater. The diameter of the creater is around ± 800 meters (from north - to south side) and about ± 600 leters (from east - to west side). And the crater constantly belches white sulphurous smoke in every in every second the whole of the day. 

Bromo is not standing alone it the huge caldera. There is Batok Maountain (2447 meter high) which has beautiful shape (the top look like has been cut) and covered by green algae on every side. Both of that mountains are surrounded by magnificent caldera, which call as Lautan Pasir (Sea of sand), not only the wide space of caldera (approximately 10 km) is become main attraction of caldera, but also wonderful spot such as pasir berbisik (whispered sand), savannah  or teletubbies hills are remarkable scenery . 

Bromo mountain is located on three different city, Malang, Pasuruan and Probolinggo. So there is 3 different route to reach it. And every of every city has different specialization to describe the beauty Bromo Mountain.

It won’t be enough to describe the beauty of nature by reading from literature. And it will be complete if we are breath the fresh of the air, touch the sand, and walking through by our own self.

 We would love and honor to share our trip with you. 

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IJEN SULPHUR CRATER

Ijen Crater

photo courtessy : Fiki

Never getting enough to hike any mountains? Never getting enough to reach the top and amazed with the whole wide view? This time we'd like to offer you a different experience of mountain hiking when you reach the top..

Might you experience the sulphur crater on top of the mountain, here on this Ijen mountain you'll experience a short hike up which finally lead you to spot the huge blue crater with strong sulphur smell.

While you experience the magnificent surroundings and views from the lips of the crater, you're able to walk down that challenging dusty road nearby the crater lips to see the sulphur mine area closer. Be ready to wear your mask to cover your eyes and nose ; unless you might want to experience the strong smell.

photo courtessy : Fiki

Before you reach the hiking start-point on Ijen, you'll please your eyes with the magnificent views of hills around. Those green and yellowish grass along the small rocky path. There you might stop awhile to spot some sulphur stream as the appetizer for the next unforgettable view. Then it's time to stop and take a break before some hike up

photo courtessy : Fiki

Along your way up, you'll pass some locals who works on the sulphur miner going up and down frequently to collect the culphur stones. This is definetely scenes of Beautiful of Hard Life..

Some said they're paid only for few rupiahs for a kilo of sulphur stones, and that's the reason why they have to go up and down many times.

Otherwise, it always be a new sight experience on every travel journey, and we'd like to offer you this dramatize experience.. a beauty lies on efforts..

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