Coban Pelangi, Malang - Rainbow In Your Hand

To be honest before i went there, i never heard this name. This waterfall might not be the most famous waterfall in Malang, but worth a shot. I'll tell you why :)

I went to Coban Pelangi (Rainbow Waterfall), on 1st Sept 2014 with my teammate at PDAKI FEB UA. Well, just FYI, the possible translation for PDAKI maybe Data Center and Financial Analysis of Indonesia. Sounds cool? Haha. I join for an internship. Because it was an "office's employee travelling", i didn't pay anything for this trip except train tickets, food and tips. And it wasn't cost that much. How nice!

Coban Pelangi is located in Desa Gubugklakah, Kecamatan Poncokusumo, Kabupaten Malang. This waterfall isn't that far from Bromo. Most people might visit here after Bromo, like i did. Just like other tourism object, first we need to pay entrance admission only for Rp 6000 per person. Then enter the gate, and walk, probably around 1,5 km (?). The path is clear and we just need to follow the way. There are only beautiful green view as far as my eyes go, which is really great.

But the thing is, you walk downhill to meet the waterfall, and that's a bit steep. Me and friends be like:

Oh My God, just how we gonna walk this incline later??? *and cry*

Cause we actually don't exercise that often, and we just climbed Bromo few hours ago. This challenge is actually killing us.

But nope! Keep going.

Btw, don't worry if you need toilets during your walk, because there are 2 spots where toilets are available. In each spot, also there are sellers if you want to buy drinks or snacks, even instant noodle. Also a spot for Mushola if you probably a Moeslem.

After you passed those 2 toilet spots, soon you will find a bamboo bridge to cross over the river. Don't hesitate to take photos, this bridge is somehow a nice photo spot! :)

Bamboo Bridge (1)

Bamboo Bridge (2)

After the bamboo bridge, walk a little bit more. Just a little bit more.

And.......

Coban Pelangi (Rainbow Waterfall)

 

Taaa~~~~ raaaaaaahhhh!!

You've arrived at Coban Pelangi!!!

Just like another waterfall, the water is cold but super fresh. It's okay if you decided to swim, but way too cold for me. I put only feet into water, for photo purpose only. Hahaha.

Cold yet fresh water :D

I think my photos with water sparkles
over my camera lens turn out so nice :D

Special thing about this waterfall is, you can see many rainbow. Small to big rainbow. If you visit at the right weather and time (they said the best time is in the morning), you'll see a big rainbow near the cliff around waterfall. I wonder how beautiful it can be. But even if you don't get to see a big rainbow, as long a quite strong sunshine is present, you still have a small, but many rainbows. I see rainbows everywhere at some spots with a nice sunshine. They are small and at your hand reach. So wonderful :)

(Apologize. No rainbow photos were capture :| )

The small rainbow, it works like... when you spray water to plants in a garden, and there's sunshine so somehow you get to see rainbow on the water you spray. I can't explain it with a right science -_- but it works like that.

I suggest to stay a bit longer at the waterfall, or near the bamboo bridge, to make your walk worth. Hehe. Because your way back will probably be tiring if you don't usually walk.

Well, so don't hesitate if you have plan to visit Coban Pelangi. Go visit ! :) 

Green view during your walk :)
On our way back, and this is probably the only "flat" path.
After this, only stairs and incline. Haha

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‘Rujak Uleg’ Festival in Surabaya 2014 – Tasty and Free!

I wrote this article in purpose of reporter recruitment at an ASEAN organization. Unfortunately i didn't make it. Most possible because of TOEFL certification, i don't have any. Or probably what i did is just too bad and didn't reach their standard. Or other applicants were just too good to compete against me. Or...? Whatever :/

If i were accepted, i think i can have a new media to explore myself in writing. I love to write since middle school, but these days i don't really have media where i can publish my write (I don't know why but my college's organization is just a community i can't mixed into. Too bad i tend to run away if i don't feel comfortable with people. Sorry, my bad). Plus, they will pay around USD 40 for each article. Such a waste i didn't make it.

Anyway, i wrote this article with some efforts, i feel so bad if it's just stuck as my file. I decide to put it here. This is a lost article, so if you read it don't expect a good one. *sigh*

Enjoy~~~~~

‘Rujak Uleg’ Festival in Surabaya 2014 – Tasty and Free! If you never heard about rujak uleg, now it’s your turn to know that a traditional food can be this fun. Rujak uleg is one of traditional food from Surabaya, East Java. Basically it’s similar with salad dish. Inside rujak uleg, you will find slices of tropical fruits (such as raw mango, pineapple, starfruit), vegetables (such as kangkung, tauge), lontong (rice cake), tofu and tempe. Those ingredients served with peanut and petis sauce, which is also mixed with onion, garlic and chilli. Rujak uleg can be found almost everywhere in Surabaya. After the tastiness, now add some fun to the food! Every May, Surabaya will have anniversary celebration for a whole month and everyone is able to join, whether as participants or just visitors. Rujak Uleg Festival is one of the events. This event held at Jalan Kembang Jepun. This place is just a normal street in Surabaya with people and their activities. However when it’s time for festival, happiness atmosphere become something you can’t handle and you surely want to visit. Thousands people from various organizations join in. They are from government institution, army, public company, social community, and many others, even embassy from some countries. Their participation means to enliven Surabaya’s anniversary. Also join in are rujak uleg seller around Surabaya. Besides enliven the anniversary, if their rujak uleg become a winner, sure it will boost their popularity. They make a group of around ten people each, to make Rujak Uleg together. Each group will get table to cook, and they are allowed to decorate their table as they want. Creative people with creative mind have fun with this task. Some groups build a mini tower made of fruits, which later will be used to cook, then, beautify it with flower decoration. Not enough with table decoration, participants of this festival are wearing unique and colorful customs. You will ‘wow’ at their customs as you walk from one table to another. Creativity sure is required because each group creates their own theme. You can see people cooking while wearing clown custom completed with funny make ups. Or maybe someone with Captain America custom slicing fruits and mixing sauce. Some groups want something more Indonesia, thus they wear Kebaya (Indonesia’s traditional clothes) with many decoration attached to it. Before everyone start to cook, upbeat music will be played and all participants dance happily with their groups. Walk around their table, shake their body and sing along together. In case you haven’t heard, Surabaya weather is sunny and hot. However, the burning sun won’t stop participant’s dance. Yet their dances become happier and full of laughter. As they dance, quite few groups will sing a simple and short jingle they made themselves to boost their confidence and spirit. Those jingles are usually a remake of some famous and catchy song in Indonesia. They changed the lyric’s song with their own. These hundreds groups are competing their rujak uleg. Judgment is normally based on the taste, custom and decoration creativity, and cleanliness. After each group creates their ‘masterpiece’, here comes the most wanted part. Free rujak uleg for visitors! Visitors can freely visit any table they want and have some rujak uleg. You better be fast because basically now it’s your time to compete with another thousand visitors to get rujak uleg. Rujak uleg in every table will finish in no time. Rujak Uleg Festival is one of Surabaya’s annual events. Through this event government wish to bring Surabaya’s culinary and uniqueness to the world. A very good way, isn’t it? (Karina)

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Laziness please don't love me. Just go away.

Wassup today blogs?

I feel sooooo unproductive these 3 weeks. This semester i just need to finish my 'skripsweet' and that's all. Sometimes if you just have one and only task to do, your heart mind and even soul all together be like:
Just-do-it-tommorow.

That spell is simply stuck in my brain. As expected, i do nothing. Well, okay.. not really. At first week i came to library browsed e-journal, which gave me a good one. A good one for me is the one i can understand. Too bad that wasn't happen often. Difficult and hard research is everywhere but here i am, be like:

I want to laugh at myself. But in result, i finally have 2 e-journal on hand. One is a result of my browsing, another one is journal that i and my friend used in previous semester. Following what my friend do, i ask profesor (?)(nope, he's not profesor yet), whether these research can be used for my skripsweet or not. Prof be like:
*laugh softly*
"Too easy. Find another super ultra difficult one, kay?"

Juat fyi, i try to find prof with kindness when they explain. Even kindest prof turn down what i find. I just can't imagine if my 'dosbing' is that one.. the evil-est prof among all evil prof in my major.

As the deadline for title-entry come closer, i still don't have any thought to browsed another research. Oh man, nothing. Just.way.too.lazy.to.do.that.
I'll just entry that easy one. My dosbing will change it anyway.

Yet, this lazy lady still want to graduate very soon. I will find a way to overcome this over-laziness. I have to graduate soon.
No.matter.what!!

Fighting spirit come to meeeeee!!!!!!! Me and my skripsweet need youuu so bad !!

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