AOE: Vacation to Blue Mountain.

Do you like nature? For me, nature is a gift from God. Nature is a real deal if you want to see a beauty of the world. Nature is a place when you want to release your stress. Nature is the best destination of traveling. I love nature very much.

I also went visit to nature in Sydney. It was Blue mountain. I am sure that you've heard it before. The kilometers-square area of vacation-land with its world-famous masterpiece, the Three Sisters. You have to take a train from the City to Katoomba. It takes approximately an hour.  

Katoomba train station.

After you get out of the train station, you will find Blue mountain office. There is an officer that you can ask about the land. You'll be charged a few dollars (AUD 35) for the bus service around the land, but if you want a cheaper price, you can find an ordinary bus service (but it's not stopped in every spots of the land).

Blue mountain bus service.

You can choose the spot you like or you can choose them all. I prefer to choose the best first instead of the easier first.

Yes, you have to walk in most of the spots.

Yo, relax for a while. :D

Scenery from Queen Victoria.

Most of Blue mountain fields can be done with hiking as you can see above. You cannot use any transportation but walking. Don't forget to bring an umbrella because sometime the weather could turn to rain drastically.

Above are the pictures from Wentworth falls.

Beside the nature spots, Blue mountain also has another interesting places to visit. One of those is Chocolate house. You can buy a handmade chocolate art here for a gift. You can taste a free chocolate as well.

You also can visit Aboriginal museum. Below is the sneak peek of the museum. They sell Aborigin authentic weapon in a present form (of course it's not real, just as a symbol).

And this is the world-famous masterpiece I told you, the Three Sisters! The commonly told legend of it is that three sisters named Meehni', Wimlah', and Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe. They fell in love with three men from a neighbouring tribe (the Nepean tribe), but marriage was forbidden by tribal law. The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters. A major tribal battle ensued, and the three sisters were turned to stone by an elder to protect them, but he was killed in the fighting and no one else could turn them back. (Wikipedia.org)

You can visit other spots like we did. Here are some pictures that may be can give you a description about the Blue mountain. I hope it is useful for you who want to visit Blue mountain. Happy holiday!

AOE: Short vacation to Jatiluhur, Indonesia.

The Jatiluhur Dam is a multi-purpose embankment dam on the Citarum River in West Java, Indonesia. It is located 70 km (43 mi) east of Jakarta, close to the medium-size town of Purwakarta. The dam serves several purposes including the provision of hydroelectric power generation, water supply, flood control, irrigation and aquaculture. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatiluhur_Dam)

I and my college friends had a short vacation there on August 2014. Riding a bikes was an alternative we chose because the place is not too far from Bandung. We enjoyed the vacation even though that was not so special. Big lake and big dam amazed me after all. We took a picture everywhere we could. That was my first time to visit one of the biggest dam in Indonesia.

We had a pray first before we arrived at Jatiluhur dam.

The unique human creation beside the mosque.

We must use this road to go to Jatiluhur dam.

Jatiluhur in panorama mode.

The road to the other side of Jatiluhur.

It is not an advertisement. It is just a picture of our motorcycle. Haha..

Me with scenery of Jatiluhur.

One of my college friends, Ridwan was posing with scenery of Jatiluhur.

Rest a while here.

Adi and Santi were enjoying their bowl of meatball.

Buffalos of Jatiluhur.

Ridwan.

Santi.

Me.

Adi and the buffalos were posing to camera. Haha

Ridwan was reaching the buffalos.

4 of us using self timer.

Air style!

She looks like a superhero. Haha

Adi (again).

3 of us at random area. Haha

Found this big thing during our way to other side of Jatiluhur. I believe it belongs to PLN, Indonesian electricity company.

Seafood fried rice for lunch. 

Jatiluhur dam scenery.

Are you a real model? Haha

Jatiluhur dam in panorama mode.

It feels like in Japan. Haha..

Selfie time!

Colorful boats.

Sunset view.

We witnessed some water-sport athletes were using Jatiluhur lake as their practice area. They are under West Java KONI (Indonesian National Sports Committee). That is the proof that Jatiluhur lake is not an ordinary lake.

Actually, Jatiluhur has a water-park and a place for picnic that we didn't visit. Most people have some vacation in those places. We just wanted to enjoy Jatiluhur from different side. Thank you.