Choice destination for a weekend cycling in West Java because of poor access often are impractical. Lido, for example, is a very pleasant recreation area with a beautiful lake, horse trails, paragliding and a resort hotel. But the only way to get there is along "The Path to Death", also known as Jalan Raya Sukabumi , from the end of Jagorawi Toll Road. There are numerous other hot routes for cyclists in West Java, but there is always a real challenge.
Puncak, once a wonderful weekend retreat, is today an unspeakable six hour drive to smoggy, jammed-up Cipanas. It's actually more like a mountain park, as weekends will trap you in your car with an endless view of the tea plantations.
The same applies to enjoy the West Coast. By the time you get Anyer, Carita or Labuan, beaten quite interesting biking areas, all the enthusiasm out of you.
So where to go? My suggestion is excited Lampung province, on the southern tip of Sumatra, but with a key qualification: You must first battle your way from West Jakarta, by Tange, Balaraja, Serang and Cilegon to industrial Merak and then survive a rather uncomfortable. - At least it is a broad, violent landscape with rough natural splendor: you go over the Sunda Strait to the port of bakauheni
Once in Sumatra disembark, but the world seems to open properly three-hour ferry ride carry bikes and riders on the bumpy toll road from Kebun Jeruk the Ferry terminal in Merak compared to overpopulated West Java.
What I normally do, a small pickup is for rent. I can usually driver hammer. Up to Rp.400,000 for travel
it Be warned that the Sunda Strait ferries are a favorite of pickpockets and other criminal gangs that will break into locked vehicles and plunder, unless someone stays within the guard. Serious. Keep an eye on your car or bike for the duration of the trip
There are good cycling roads in Lampung Province abound if you are hard to escape -. Traveled bakauheni - Medan artery highway. Uphill from the terminal through smoke and heavy truck traffic is only for the ultra-hardcore. Better to start the bike trip in Bandar Lampung, the pleasant green capital of the province, an hour by car from the Ferry Terminal. You can usually hire transport, with patience and haggling
Bandar Lampung is an evening worth after considerable struggle polluted West Java the stopover to escape. we sophisticated usually in Hotel Hartono, a modest, two-star hotel with a magnificent view of the bay and a Master of macaques, which remain to climb the balcony, the food from guests.
From Lampung, West on good roads with little traffic, Kota Agung. The cycling trip that I describe forms a rough quadrangle, combining riding and transport. On map out on Google Earth with the four points as Bandar Lampung - Kota Agung - Krui -. Kotabumi and back
Cycling from Bandar Lampung to Kota Agung is fairly flat, but a challenge in hot weather. I usually take the bikes on a local bus. The head only they accumulate on other passengers' luggage stocked, against Rp.150,000
During this trip to Kota Agung I had a Dahon Matrix, a full-size folding bike that in mixed riding and loading the Luggage compartment was perfect.
Kota Agung is a fishing port on the wide Teluk Semangka (Watermelon Bay) enclosed by the peninsula Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. Fishing boats come shortly after sunrise with their catch in, which will be auctioned on the spot. There are inexpensive fish restaurants along the highway; it is best to stay overnight in neighboring Gisting. Energetic cyclists can ride up near Tanggamus mountain.
From Kota Agung, it is over the mountains to the west coast, another challenging uphill bike ride. The traffic is usually light; if you tire out there is always someone with a pickup truck, which will carry a little further. Travel through the park early in the morning, you will by the whoops of the troops of siamang (gibbons) serenade -. Her cries easily travel five kilometers in the silence of the forest
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, the west coast is great. It is a vibrant surf camp business in Krui, a fishing village on the coast. Long-term expatriate Zane Redman operates the eponymous hotel Zandino, one of a number of economically (under Rp.0,000 / night, with meals) surf lodges. Caution strongly with western waters recommended: while the local people are friendly and courteous, roads are easily traveled and reasonably sure the sea will kill you. There are strong undertows and you can smash along coral reefs. We turn to the east of Krui, for Liwa heading. It's a pleasant ride uphill, back through the national park.
An hour to the north is Danau Ranau , a beautiful, ominous lake recalls the in mountainous Austria. Lake Ranau is surrounded by mountains, with a symmetrical volcano in the West. The accommodation is poor - all but starless; as hardy cyclists, you can ( "last resort" Resort) for a night set up with a pathetic losmen. Rent a boat to traverse the harsh, windy black water of the lake, is worth the effort. Good driving roads.
Then there is a great drive to the east, through the mountains of Bukit Kemuning to Kotabumi where you catch the busy highway axis to bakauheni. To search for best transport for bikes and store the harp for later.
Facts
Lampung, South Sumatra
Capital: Bandar Lampung
area: 13,659 km2
population: 7,691,000 (2010)
accommodation:
Hartono Lestari Hotel in Bandar Lampung. J L.. Kesehatan 7, Bandar Lampung
Telephone: +62721 262 525
Hotel Mutiara Alam Zandino, Jl. Pantai Harapan, Krui, Lampung
Phone :. Zane Redman - 081514139201
http://kruisurfcamps.com
What to do:
cycle and surf.
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