Beliau bukan siapa-siapa, hanya seorang pengelana yang telah bertahun-tahun keliling dunia diatas sepeda. Konsepnya sederhana, kemampuannya membadut, membawa serta tawa pada tiap daerah yang disinggahinya.
Kiranya ada sodaraku disini yang kebetulan disinggahi, silahkan bertegur sapa, seperti halnya ciri khas bangsa kita...setidaknya tersenyum, maaf bila postingan ini agak diluar topik diskusi. Berikut email dari beliau: -----Original Message----- From: "Inu Febiana" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:55:55 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: [b2w] Fw: from lombok, indonesia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:28:50 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [b2w] Fw: from lombok, indonesia Fren, masih inget salva? Bikepacker dari spanyol yang melakukan perjalanan keliling dunia dan mampir ke jakarta beberapa waktu lalu. Berikut email dari beliau yang menceritakan kesan2 positif selama berada di Indonesia, juga pengalamannya dibantu oleh b2w selama di jakarta. Powered by Telkomsel BlackBerry® dear all, how are you? i am still alive and travelling, enjoying a rest after 4 months of cycling in the islands. i am tired, very tired. i left kuala lumpur, middle may, with adam, a long-distance cyclist from poland that i met first time in samarkand, uzbekistan. so, we spent a confortable week in malaysia peninsula, camping in hot springs and enjoying beautiful cameroon highlands. also by chance we had a good night with the aborigen people in the jungle. we crossed to sumatra from georgetown, close to thailand border. there is a cheaper ferry from malaca but it crosses to middle sumatra. we had a very good 5 weeks in sumatra. everything is here, volcanos, lakes, mountains, jungle, beaches... but the best jem is the people. such a wonderful smiling people. they make us feel welcome always. they smile all time like clones of dalai lama. i believe they are very happy, not rich, not poor, living in a blessed land and always in family. they gave us a lot of positive energy, you cannot be sad in sumatra! there are not many cyclists in sumatra and rest of indonesia surprisingly, maybe because is remote and the western media only speak about natural disasters and sporadic terrorism, but it has been a highlight of my travel so far. may is the end of rainning season, so weather is nice with some showers. everycorner is green, exotic flowers (you can pee on orchids!) and birds. also very cheap, but mostly we stayed with locals which are really friendly. we did not meet here radical muslim people, in fact islam is extremely relaxed here, and all religions are very kind between themselves. but it is true they have a problem with a small terrorism group, and they attack from time to time. being spanish, a country that suffers also attacks from ETA terrorists, i can say that if you can plan to visit my country for holidays, why not indonesia as well? well, we crossed to jawa island and traffic plus pollution was there. also the jakarta cycling community. people which spent with us their time, helped us with our bike problems and everything smiling. we felt in family. they have two organizations jumping over religions and ethnics, with the aim of reducing pollution and increasing the number of cyclists. very strong community. i love them. you can chek them at www.bike2work or www.bikepackerindonesia (maybe i am not very exact with address but you will find them in google). adam and me split there, and i went to kalimantan (borneo indonesia), and i cycled the west. it is a little developed area and weather conditions are tough. strong sun and humidity, very steep hills and clay road. also no traffic neither tourism at all. it was good, some nice jungle, rivers and birds. the best again, the people, the dayak tribe. extremely friendly. i had no time someevenings to ask where i could hang my mosquito net, they already organised everything. it is not a very isolated land as some in africa (i miss' sometimes), but it is hard enough to keen the trip. you have to be autonomous since there are not facilities as public transport, electricity, bike shops and sometimes longdistance between villages. once you cross kapuas river, asphalt and ciilization are there, and very soon, malaysia side, which is developed. so i reached kuching and took a short rest. i went to see orangutans (0.7 euro) and stay in baku national park with proboscis monkeys as neibourghs (2 euro entrance, 1 for camp at any where). malaysia borneo is oriented to holidays and middle class tourism, but even like this, if you look for it you can make it cheap. for example, many groups visit orangutans in expensive reserve areas, i do not understand since there is one close to kuching for 1$! on the way to brunei i sow many traditional longhouses, very interesting. sometimes i was invited to stay, but i must say that i felt no sincerity, so i refused and they never insisted... malay people are not so warm as indonesian. they keep a distance, but still very helpful. you can sleep in very good rekreasi parks, camp in rivers, or in 'public places' as churches or youthcenters. chinese comunity is very interesting here. they keep their traditions since the mop of the revolution was not here, and i enjoyed with them very much. even in a taoist temple, the caretaker did a ceremony for me and told me my future. asked when i was going to finish my trip and comeback home, he said 'when you get married'. so, dear friends, i am very worried now! another beautiful national park is niah caves. stunning scenery and huge caves. in bandar seri, brunei capital, there is a 300000 inhabitants watervillage. no tourism, so it is very pleasant to walk aroun there. you hear only your steps on the wood path and the glu-glup of the tide. this is also the first capital i have ever been with no taxis! everybody has 1 or 2 cars, so they are useless. again in malaysian side (sabah), i stopped for a rest in kuta kinabalu, but it was boring town and i did not meet there the funny chinese comunity i did before. also many beautiful girls and i was afraid of ending in a marriage... so i left for mountains. kinabalu mountain is scenic, but not unique. still a pleasure to cycle over 1000 m because of the cool weather. many people 'climb' kinabalu, but you must hire a guide and join a group, and the trek is crowded. the rest of saba was not nice since 50% of the land is ocuppied by oil palm farms. the enviroment is changed and climate as well, very hot and humid. from here (sandakan) you can cross to philippines (50 euros). i got a new indonesia visa in tawau (very easy, 20 minutes) and crossed to sulawesi island. i met adam again and we enjoyed the stunning mountains of central sulawesi. road is good an scenic, no traffic at all, until lake poso. from there we took very bad roads to linde national park. ti goes through rainforest mountains and, my friends, it was fantastic. i had some of the best days of the travel here. it is a thick jungle and unhabited, which means it is touhg and unique. the very best, the 60 kms in the linde national park. the 'road' is just a 30 cms path in the jungle, and we jump over broken huge trees, crossed rivers, push a lot in steep muddy areas, and yet exhausted, we felt ourselves the luckiest men in the world. after this we split again in palu. adam is heading to philippines and shanghai, looking for a job as he is running out of money. i had a very good time with him in sumatra and sulawesi, he is a very positive man and always faces problems in a good mood. i am happy to say i have such a good friend now. well, after almost 4 months cycling without a break, my body was begging for a rest, so i went to the coast in search of a small paradise for my old bones. i had no success, even i crossed very beautiful beaches and villages with turquoise waters (road sometimes is so close that you can snorkel from the bike!), but i did not like anyone in all the way to very far makassar. then, i decided my rest cannot wait, sometimes i felt no power at all, so i decided to go to a touristic place, and i took a ferry to lombok island, close to bali. it is high season and it was extremely difficult to find accomodation. even for a shitty bambu room with nothing but an old dirty mat they asked me 10$! but at the end i asked in a bungalow esort if they could allow me to camp. they were very surprised and no idea about what i was talking about (this is a place for sufers, divers and relax holidays, not for a gypsy on a bike), but when they saw my tent set up, they laught a lot and they allowed me to stay 2 weeks with them. even i pay local price in their restaurant but most times they just feed me. very good people, and also they are not used to see 'bule' (westerner) that want to spend time with them. tomorrow we have a birthday party, i feel in family. so, my friends, i am enjoying a nice rest in this kuta beach paradise. in middle september i will cross back to peninsula, to singapore, and i will continue on my route to japan. i still have to delivery the yen coin to my friend kim. he gave it to me in capetown, more than 2 years and 40000 kms ago, so maybe i am the slowest delivery system in the world! anyway, i hope i will reach japan during next year, if i do not get married.... i will write again about december or so, and please, if you have time let me know how are you. i am always eager to know about my friends. happy ramadam for all muslim friends! 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