Tidung Island : A Paradise in North Jakarta

Started from an advice that a lecturer gave to us a few months ago, I decided to write more. This one was not a new story but since i do not travel quite often and recently my daily life is quite boring, so..... I think this one will be an interesting thing to write.

Did i ever tell you that i was a part of Buchaechum (부채춤-Korean Fan Dance)? Not yet? Ok, told you, just now ahahhaha. Yep, i was one of them since February 2012 for replacing a member that went exchange to Korea. This year we all decided to retire and teach our juniors to be the next generation. So we went to a 3 days 2 nights holiday to Tidung Island as a farewell party.

Tidung Island is a part of Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands) which is located in North Jakarta. It was a small island with beautiful beach. We planned to have a farewell vacation here with all Buchaechum member, at least that was what we planned but most of Buchaechum members could not make it so we just had vacation with friends that wanted to go.

Here we are!!! Tidung Island!! 

Day 1

After about 2 hours and half journey, we arrived in Tidung Island. Thanks God i did not get seasick. We met our guide and headed to our cottage (actually it was not a cottage but i do not find any word that can describe it better). After we rested a little bit and had lunch we looked around the island. Lucky us because it was the end of holiday so there were not many people around. I heard there were almost 8,000 people came here in peak season.

blue sky, blue ocean, infinity!

Like i told before, Tidung Island is a small island but you still need bicycle if you want to walk around because it will be tiring if you go by foot. And the guide already prepare bicycles for us! We looked around some beaches and played in a beach that we thought the most beautiful one.

dunno why we still could pose on bicycle

girls in beach!

Amei and Ara

found a huge sea star, we named it Patrick

so called Jembatan Cinta (Love Bridge)

it was so refreshing, and hot ~,~

At night we had (seafood) BBQ on the beach. It was perfect! ahahahahaha i liked the beach in the night. It was deep dark if you saw at the water but when you saw above to the sky you would see sooooo~~~ many stars than you could see from your house. And the sound of waves made you feel how tiny you were. I like the atmosphere and also....the food.

quite, peaceful, and mysterious

nom nom nom, we ate seafood till we fed up only by look at them

still have time to camwhore lol
umi, ara, lika, amei, uyung, lulu

umi, ara, lika, amei, uyung

Day 2

Day 2 was our main event! we went snorkeling!!! yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! we took a small boat to snorkeling area. The most thing i regretted when i came here was the fact that i forgot how to swim! the pictures were definitely not good if you took it with you in life-vest. But it was exciting when fishes came to your hand to get their bread. Sometimes they mistook your fingers as bread so just enjoy it when they bite you.

heading to snorkeling area!
dyna, amei, lulu

ready to snorkel
uyung, lulu, amei

they were so wild, can you see the biscuit?

love all the view of fishes and corals

After snorkeling, we played banana boat. I have three words to describe it "just try it".

pose before feel the great hurt -__-
banana boat old man, amei, dyna, umi, ara

We spent almost our time playing on the beach and before dinner we went to watch sunset in the West part of the island. It was beautiful view to watch with your lover but the only problem here was it was the only part of the island where you can see the sunset so everybody came here.

we made umi to mermaid!!

Day 3

We woke up at 5.00 am to see the sunrise. Actually we should wake up at 5.00 but no one of us woke up on time because we were too tired that time. So our last day was such a waste only to pack our stuffs and take boat that depart at 10.00 am. After all, our vacation was so exciting! Thank you Tidung Island!! and see you next time!

Maybe i can come again next year after i learn (again) how to swim. But beside Tidung Island there are still many island that i can visit in Thousand Island, wish me have enough money to visit all of them. See you in my next post!

all photo credit to Dyna, Uyung, and Lika

thank you :)