On Sunday September 7th
still on Picnic Week Series, I and my internship partners had a quality time
together finally after 1 year. We went to South Jogja to try the real picnic
experience with mountain air and fresh flowing water. Shortly after a quite
long road trip, missed direction, and how “passionate” our driver (which was my
friend) drove the car, we finally arrived in our first destination.
Let me explain my total
outlook on that day, since I knew that would be full of movement on that day so
I chose to wear a simple outfit and didn’t forget wear my running shoes. Best
travelling pal ever! Electric blue as pop up color never failed me and white
top was needed to neutralize the color and they looked good together. I got my
miniskirt from Pink Emma (Indonesia’s fashion local brand) as a present because
I won their quiz (It was a total luck). I combined it with denim tight and
batwing top with some gold studs on the shoulders. That tartan shirt was
actually My Fathers that I found in the closet, ups! Of course I completed the
look with favorite camera printed pouch. Voila!
Imogiri
Pine Forest
This spot is the hippiest venue
among Instagramers to take misty and #vsco friendly pictures. Without missing
any seconds uselessly, we enjoyed the view by taking so much pictures and
selfies instead of having a real picnic experience. A real picnic experience
here means, spread out the carpet, having a delicious dishes and warm chit
chat. No! but who cares, we talked a lot (and eat snacks a lot) all the way
here so It was a total time to take outfit photo, especially for me. Haha.
Unfortunately, since that day was Sunday, there were a lot of crowd almost in
every spots. They were dating, having picnic with family or friends, or even
pre wedding photo shooting.
On my bubble wishes,
I imagined I got a sweet surprise because the result of my outfit photo shot
was out of my expectation. It beyond perfection, especially the background and
a heaven-look-alike-light emerged between the trunk and leaves. How it seemed
like in Nami Island, South Korea, the shooting venue of popular Korean Drama.
Unfortunately (again), the result was yes totally out of my prediction. The
camera we used was really good on creating a blur-background-look as I wished.
The problems were on the photographer (the owner was pro but the person who
took my pic was lil bit perhaps not having the expertise) and the model (which
is me).
Some of my photos with a
good pose and expression mostly blurred and some of clear photos displayed a
weird pose and fail expression of me. My make up was also messing up after a
long journey and had no time to touch it up. It disappointed me so much knowing
the fact that I am pretty good on finding the perfect angle, directing good
pose, and adjusting lighting to others but fail on my own project. Probably I
have talent on fashion photography instead of photo modeling. So excuse me for
lack of good photos taken here, I am so sad :”(
Lepo
Waterfall
We cancelled our visit here
because the river was out of water although in fact we had already arrived in
the village where that waterfall’s located. No wonder because actually we came
in a wrong time, on that time was dry season so I thought we should revisit one
day. That natural waterfall is worth to be visited.
Mangunan
Fruit Garden
I hadn't get chance to take personal photos because I couldn't resist the hot temperature. This venue is one of the
most popular tourism objects to take a good photo among Jogja Instagramers. Not
literally a fruit garden because there were a lot of fruit trees with no fruits.
The favorite place to spend a picnic time here was actually on top of the hill
where we could sit back and relax while our eyes were feasted by the panorama.
That was my third visit I guess, but I never had enough. We could feel the dry breeze
since the weather was so hot in the midday and the most fascinating thing was
we could see the Selopamioro Hanged Bridge (I posted it earlier) from this
point. The river down there, the green mountain range, and the blue sky were
combined into a perfect God’s painting. Superb!
The pic above is how it looks right now
This pic is old photo from my preceding visit
Ngobaran
Beach
I almost gave up with the
trip since it didn’t run as smooth as I planned. We lost directions for several
times until we (finally) visited unplanned destination. (since I didn’t want to
blame anyone, so say it as a misfortune) We decided to still go to the beach
although the distance was far and the road wasn’t really friendly. We also had
to pass some dangerous and deadly road who any people want to avoid. I hate
that. How hardcore the road and how inpatient the driver (of other vehicles) almost
brought us into tragedy. In a narrow road on our way to the beach, firstly we
passed several busses until one bus nearly hit our car, it was about 10 cm away
from the bumper. My heart was about to jump out from its place, since the car
was mine. After we could conquer the obstacle, we met another bus that fell into
a cliff, horrible. The most adrenaline pumping road trip ever! (that I don’t
wanna retry).
Actually that was my revisit
to Ngobaran beach. Unfortunately, we arrived to the beach nearly dusk, so we
couldn’t enjoy playing with water between the big reef. Then, we took a good
selfies in front of the statues and temple, a glimpse of Uluwatu beach in Bali.
Ngobaran’s was a cliff type beach, how similar with Bali’s beaches and yeah I always
love the Ngobaran nuance. We spent the sunset time in Nguyahan Beach, Ngobaran’s
neighbor. The beach’s slope was slighter so we could dip our barefoot feet into
the sea water and catch small fishes.
Sorry, I've lost my make up
Hill
of Stars
We took a little time enjoy
the hill of stars on our way back to Jogja. The sparkling of city’s lights
looked so shiny and bright up here, mesmerizing stars-on-the-sky look alike.
For me who love stargazing and skywatching, this one felt so romantic,
especially when you went with your lovers J
Since I didn’t have one so, It just…….oke stop here.
Satay
Klathak by Mr. Bari in Jejeran Market
Yeah we had an unplanned
dinner in Bantul Region at the end of the day. Some of us wanted to taste Satay
Klathak by Mr. Pong. What is satay klathak? Let me explain you briefly. It is a
grilled meat, actually a baby/young goat meat being grilled without any spices
except salt. Yes only salt. The cube slices of the meat are pinned using
bicycle grating. This satay becomes a culinary icon of Yogyakarta because of
its uniqueness and originality. The delicate meat melt tenderly in your mouth
with a simple taste but so original. All we knew that Mr Pong restaurant had
the best Satay Klathak in town so went there. And…..yeah everyone else seemed have
the same idea with us because the visitors were so crowded. We cancelled our
plan and move to the pioneer of Satay Klathak in town, Mr. Bari stall in
Jejeran Market. My friends said that the satay here had better tast, not as
popular as Mr. Pong’s though. Many celebrities had visited this
not-look-like-a-food-stall since it’s only located in a traditional market open
veranda.
Great time with good friends,
what do you expect more?
Photographer :
Husnul Yaqin
Dhemi Phinandari
Indira Paramaningtyas
Gregorius Panduadi
Photoshoot Spots :
Imogiri Pine Forest, Bantul
Ngobaran Beach, Gunungkidul
Nguyahan Beach, Gunungkidul
Credit to my dearest friends : Dira, Dhemi, Arin, Husnul, Alfin, Gre, Yoso. Big thanks guys, you guys are roooocks! Let's explore somewhere new, let's begin another journey :")
