Well it was a very nice moment to look back. Nescafe gave me an opportunity to explore one of the city in Indonesia, my sweet hometown, Aceh. Maybe it sounds weird that I explore my own hometown, but the truth is I never explore my own hometown, except Banda Aceh. Therefore, this is my oppotunity to see how beautiful my hometown is, and visit all the incridible places in it. I live 19 years named Tjut Aliffah Keumala, for your information "Tjut" is a traditional name from Aceh, I personally have that name with pressure. Why? Because everytime people in Indonesia know there's Tjut in my name, they'll asked me with usual question "Are you from Aceh?" I definetely said yes, "How's Aceh? Is it a beautiful place? What is the tourism place in Aceh?" with this question, I answered "I don't really know, cause I only visited banda Aceh and for me the food is amazing". I kinda embrassed with this answer, cause I know they expect more and wanna know the information from me. Back to Nescafe Journey, I was super duper mega exited that they gave me this opportunity to visit Aceh.
It was Monday, 17th of September, we gathered in Soekarno Hatta airport waiting our flight to Banda Aceh. I carried my super heavy backpack and everyone laughed at me knowing the fact that my backpack's size is half of my short body haha. The trip went amazing when we reached Takengon, after our long damn trip from Banda Aceh to Takengon, our exhaustion got paid by the scenery. We went to Danau Laut Air Tawar, this is the picture which captured at that time:
Then the plan is, we want to visited Meulaboh (this is my grandma's hometown). I never been there, so the exitement raised to the high level!! haha. We need more than 8 hours to reach Meulaboh, its already dark outside, the road was not good, finally we decided to stay at the locals house to rest. But the problem is, in our group there are two ladies and three men and we know that the religious atmosphere in Aceh is so strong. So we decided to stayed at police office in Rikit Gaib village. It was the very first time for me to sleep in the police office, me and Bulan stay in the mushola while men stay inside the police office. It was a creepy place to sleep, not the mushola but outside! I heard someone knocking outside and heavy things fell down, and all I can do is just hoping the sun rises quicker than before. This is my photo with the police, his gun and mas Darto:
It was can not be uttered uttered by words when I leave the police office, thank God we just stayed there 1 night. So we continued our trip to Meulaboh. It was a very ugly road we passed, rocky road, road climbs and the worst is there was no service in our cellphone. We passed the shallow river and we have to went out of the car in order to ease the burden on car. In the middle of our way to reached Meulaboh, our car got stucked, the car could not passed the uphill rocky road. Heavy rain fell, there was no locals went down from the hill.. so we decided to go back.. I was a bit sad that we can't go to my grandma's hometown but the journey goes on....so we just facing the reality that we need to go back :')
We went to Medan and took the direct flight from Medan to Banda Aceh. The day after, we went to the most amazing island in Aceh, Sabang island. This island offered us a very nice beach and yes, Im falling in love with the scenery.. We went snorkeling at Iboih island (one of the snorkeling spot in Sabang), we also go diving, it was the very first time and the last time for me to go diving, cause I sucked in the intro diving practices T.T haha
This island is located in the western part of Indonesia, particularly where the western part of Indonesia began. Cool isn't it? We went to the 0 km and enjoyed sunset there :)
Our journey went very well.. We had a super great time together, this is my Nescafe journey team; Mas Darto, Bulan, Me, Mas Tyo and Mas Onie (from left to right). In a short span of time, they've become my new family. Thanks Nescafe for the journey, the opportunity and the experience. Especially, thanks for my team who made the trip amazingly unforgettable <3
