It was probably one of the most fantastic journey that I ever had so far. Came from the impulsive buying, Maratua Trip made my perception about the beauty of Indonesia are getting stronger. I promise to myself, I'll put Indonesia's flag emblem on my backpack, talk about Indonesia as much as I can when I'm going abroad and never say bad things about Indonesia to other even-though you are not agree with your country. And one more thing: I will say "It is Bahasa Indonesia NOT just Bahasa" when I talk about our national language.
Well, I started the journey from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at the dawn on October 2013. I flew to Tarakan using Lion Air from Cengkareng and continued the journey with speed boat from Tarakan Harbour to Maratua Island, Nort-East Borneo (Kalimantan). In short, it took almost 8 hours trip from my room in Jakarta to my room in Maratua Paradise Resort.
All the frustrated feeling instantly gone when I finally arrived at Maratua's dock at that afternoon. It simply a heaven on earth with the mixture of deep blue sea, long-wide shore with the white sands sweep away, tropical wind blowing, and half naked - innocent kids happily playing on the beach before Adzan, absolutely make a harmonic reaction inside us. It feels like.... unbelievable.
Here is a glance of Maratua Paradise:
Oh ya, below I quote my friend's note about our trip. And it is really a good copy.
Enjoy.
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M!
"They say you have to see to believe it...
so I come, I see, and I swim within it, and not dive through it. And it left me nothing but an awe!!
to simply define it as beautiful, would be considered as an understatement!! Yes, a degrading phrase!!
this is only a glimpse made by Maulana Nurhadi toward our short experience in this island. Though we didn't came at the finest time, and didn't lavishly enjoying our stay at Maratua Island, we were truly grateful to have this chances.
beyond everything, please consider this as an open invitation to enjoy our great homeland, before the Malaysian acclaim it.
yes, I meant it, don't let this treasure gone, like Sipadan Island did."
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M!
