A Day Trip To Curug Cilember

Saturday, 12 July 2008, me and JCers (jawaban.com forum’s members: Roselyn, Ana, Delly, Amos, Andri, Fendi) went to Curug Cilember, Cisarua Bogor. “Curug” is a term means waterfall. At 7 am we met at the side road of Plaza Semanggi Jakarta as our meeting point. The night before I slept at Kezia’s dormitory so I could go earlier.

The information in the website that explained about Curug Cilember was not all correct, it was said that the trip from Jakarta to Curug Cilember only took time about 1 and half hour but we’ve finally got there after spending about 3 hours on the road. There was a traffic jam in the common path to Curug Cilember, so we took one person (and pay him for his service) to show us the alternative way to get there. It was a narrow, many turns, and quite steep way up we’ve gone through, steep enough that we had to got out of the car few times so the car could climbed up (honestly, we’ve already overloaded really hehehe… there were 9 people in the car). But when finally we’ve got there, it was paid off, quite fun hehehe…

Each of us paid 6.000,- for the entrance fee to Curug Cilember. There were already many people there, some of them were playing around the waterfall, taking pictures, playing “flying fox”, sitting near their tent, or just walking around. Actually there were 7 waterfalls in Curug Cilember. The most crowded visitors usually hang around at the 7th waterfall, where we’ve also visited, because it’s the lowest waterfall. The 1st waterfall is on the highest level, and it was said on the website as the most natural waterfall since people seldom could get there. We didn’t go up because we’ve ran out of time and already hungry so we had to search a place to get lunch. I hope next time I can go back there again and get to the 1st waterfall ;-p Plus I wasn’t satisfy to take pictures yet! ;-p

We ate lunch at “Saung Kuring” restaurant. Got God’s favour ‘cause one of JCers were wiling to pay for all of us ;-p After that we went down to the Bogor city, to “Gedung Dalam” to buy some local foods like “asinan Bogor”, “toge goreng”, and many more. I bought “chocolate cheese and cheese pia”, it’s quite crunchy and delicious. Then we went back to Jakarta and finally arrived to our meeting point at 5:40 pm.

Wanna go back… wanna take another trip (more trips!!!) to enjoy the beautiful nature… and definitely wanna take more pictures!!! ;-p