It was long weekend at 2 – 3 April, I decided to become a backpacker and visited Tidung Island, located in Kepulauan Seribu, Jakarta raya’s province. I’ve never been there but I’m very interested because of my friend s (Ibez and Ichur) told me a lot about that island.
They told us that Tidung is very beautiful; white sand beach, clear water sea, variety of fish and beautiful coral ecosystem. The corals ecosystem itself is still chaste and clean, so we could see the bottom of sea. Based on their stories, we (me, Fre, Tendy, Mada also Ibez and Ichur) decided to go there.
Tidung Island located not so far away from Jakarta, arounds 3 hours by sea transportation (boat) from Muara Angke, one of port in North Jakarta. There are two islands in Tidung: Big Tidung and small Tidung, Big Tidung Island is inhabited with people but not in Small Tidung Island. The uniquely about this island is they built a wooden bridge to connect the big and the small Tidung Island. The bridge is also functions as the dock, where we can see the clear sea water and watch the beautiful sunrise and the sunset.
At the first day, We planned to camp at small Tidung because we think that this place is more quiet and is also the perfect place to enjoy the breeze and the singing waves to spent time in long night. But unfortunately the weather at that night was unfriendly so we had cancelled our camp plan and move our camp to Big Tidung Island.
The first thing we did after we arrived at Tidung island was renting snorkeling tools which cost only 35.000 rupiah a day. Honestly I was really afraid when the first time I tried to snorkel, I really regret it now because i couldn’t saw the bottom of sea, full with coral and many kind of fish swimming alongside the corals. It all happened just because I’m too scared to plunge my head into the water. At the end of that day, I just sat down and enjoyed the light breeze while all of my friends was snorkeling.
We continued the activities that afternoon with walked around through the island and felt the sand on our feet. We also walked thought the wooden bridge and simply enjoyed the young man challenged their adrenalin by jumped from the bridge, that was awesome to seen them made their own style when they jumped.
What an exhausted day, but i really enjoy it... the landscape of Tidung Island amazed me...
