MY JOURNEY
BY: ADAM
WIBOWO
Hello all my friends. Thanks
for this opportunity. Allright, here I want to tell you about a parts of my
life. It is about my unforgetable experience.
I have many hobbies. One of
them is hiking or climbing. I have climbed some mountain in Java. And last year
on the exact month November, I tried to reach the highest peak in Java,
Mahameru or the top of mountain Semeru. It is located in Malang, East Java. its
need about 3 days to reach Mahameru. So I requested annual leave to my manager
5 days. And Alhamdulillah my manager fulfilled my requestation. I went to
semeru with my friends, three from Solo, one from Jakarta, and one from Malang.
So there were six persons. Heri, Wahyu, Bayu are from Solo. Arul is from
Jakarta. And Sonny is from Malang. Heri, Wahyu, Bayu and me waited for Arul in
Solo.
We went to Malang from Solo
by train. We departured from Balapan station on Saturday, November second. And
sonny waited for us in Malang. We arrived in Malang at 6 am. We had breakfast.
And then we continued our journey by mini bus to Terminal Arjosari. There, we met Sonny. We happy sonny
to joined us. Then we continued our journey to Tumpang. We arrived in Tumpang
at 11 am. We bought things what we needs. Like foods, aqua, medicines, gass,
and so on. Then we continued to Coban. There were not public transportation from Tumpang to Coban. So
we had to rent a Jeeb. After from Coban we went to Ranu Pane. There were ojek
From Coban to Ranu Pane, but we had to walk about 2 km to get it.
We arrived at Ranu Pane at 1
pm. Ranu Pane is the last village we can reach by motorcycles. Here, we
registered our team. We submitted our requirements. we had lunch and praying in
Ranu Pane. And then we continued our journey by on foot. We started our hike. We
walked10.5 KM to the beautiful RanuKumbolo lake where we had our rest near the
lake. We set up tents near the lake. We had dinner and taking a rest.
I
got up in the morning. I saw a beautyfull scene. Where the sun shined on the
lake. After having a breakfast we climbed the steep Love Slop or TanjakanCinta.
After climbing TanjakanCinta, our eyes were entertained with a sea of lavender
flowers. That time was not lavender
season. So the colours were black. But we were in awe. This area is called
Oro-Oro Ombo. After passing through this amazing scenery, we found ourselves
inside a huge pine tree forest (CemoroKandang). After we successfully passing
through the pine tree forest, we found ourselves in Jambangan. It is called
Jambangan because this area is like a flower vase full of flowers. And finally
at 4:00 PM, we reached our camping site, Kalimati. Overall, we have walked 19.5
km by then and was exhausted. We ate our dinner and slept in our tents.
Alarm
woke us up at midnight to prepare for our journey for the day. We started our
journey at 1:00 am. We crossed a rather steep forest toward Arcopodo which is a
vegetation border where we have to walk in the sand. I noticed that in several corners of the forest,
there were memorials for those who passed away when attempting to climb the
mountain. My friend told me that most people died either because of being hit
by stones. Finally, I reached the vegetation border at 3,000 mdpl. That is when
the challenge moved up several levels because we had to walk uphill in the
slippery sand. Five steps seemed like 2 steps because my feet continued to slip downward.
Finally I
reached the summit at 3,676 mdpl. This is the highest land in the Java island. I reached the summit at
04.25 o’clock. I cried when reaching the summit. There I saw a beautyfull
scenery. Sun rised on the ocean of clouds. Once we reached there,
for a moment we forgot all the difficulties that we have gone through. I really
enjoyed the view other mountain such as bromo, putri, arjuno wirangun. I were able to hear the sound of “wedhus gembel”
very clearly and see how the wedhus gembel was vomited from the mouth semeru.
That was very amazing. There was very cold. My friend brought thermometer. And it was 2 derajat
celcius. After
satisfied taking photos, we went down. Semeru is a mountain fulled with
stories, memories, efforts, tears, and everything.
That was my
wonderfull journey. It will be unforgettable experience in my life. Thanks for
your attention.
THANK YOU
