Traveling chp: TIDUNG

Honestly, I barely had information about this island before. I know the island is one from several islands in Kepulauan Seribu but I don’t have much information about it. However, a few months later some online media gave a travelling review about this island. And the review seems like attracting some of my friends. As they suggested, we finnaly plan our trip to Tidung Island.
Like always happens when we plan a trip, we always consider money as one of the most important point. We think that is the art of doing a trip. Hahhahah.. Based on information from some blogs and also a friend, we planned the itinerary and then start the trip with pray and conviction;p

Day One

Our meeting point is Marina Harbour. The Harbour for Tidung Island is no 21. The island can be reached in 1.5 hours by using Krapu boat. It cost you around IDR 30,000. However, to get to Marina Harbour you need to pay IDR 10,000 as an entrance ticket to Ancol. Hemmmm....
When we arrived at Tidung we immediately contact our CP. The CP help us for accomodation preparation. We stayed at a lodge that cost us IDR 250,000/night. The lodge has quite proper facilities like bed, television, bathroom, mineral water and also air condition. It can accomodate up to 10 people. So the price will be so cheap if you can arrange a group of people to share the lodge. Beside that, you can also rent a bicycle for IDR 15,000 per day. Bad for me, I don’t know how to ride a bike! As the solution I chartered a pedicab ;p.
Our plan in 1st day is to visit Tidung Kecil island. There is a bridge connecting these two island. So you can reached this small island easily. The price of food in this island relatively cheap. We only need to pay IDR 10,000 for fried rice as our lunch. Heemmm.. When we were in the middle of our lunch, two kinds came to us. Both of them are girls. At first they look so shy and didn’t “asked” a lot. So we welcome them as part ot the team. We give them some snacks, take some pictures of them and then asked them if they know beautiful spot in Tidung Kecil.
These two girls finnaly guided us during our trip in Tidung Kecil. However, seems like there are some urband legend about this little island. Nobody lives there and based on their information there are some cemeteries there. Hiiiii!!!! These two girls guided us to the end of the island. Not many visitor came to that part. It was only us at that moment. Many visitor just visit the side beach of Tidung Kecil.
To get the end of this island we need to do “little” trekking. A little bit exhausted actually but it’s worthed at the end! The beach is so beautiful and calm. Nobody there except us. Love it so much! The bad part is only one. The kids keep telling us about the urband legend. Uuuugghh.... The conclusion is: the island is spooky. Hiiiii!!!! At the end of our trip to Tidung kecil, we gave the two little girls IDR 20,000 ;p
In the afternoon we went to the west beach (Tidung kecil lies in east side). It’s beautiful, but it think tidung kecil is better;p
At night we plan to have roasted fish as our dinner. We spent IDR 40,000 only to have 2kg of fish ready to eat. Hemmmm... At dinner, the two girls bring 1 companion, their brother! Thanks God we order enough food to eat. The 2kg fish enough for 10 people. Yuhhuuuu.... J When we went back to the lodge, the girls want to spend the night in our lodge. Wow, I think they started to be annoying... However, we sais no to them. Sorryyyy...

Day 2
In the morning some of my friend went to see the sunrise while I preferred to enjoy the holiday by waking up late. Hehheheh... At 7am I joined the group. The bridge is of of the most beautiful spot in Tidung actually. We take a lot of pictures there. This morning, we also went to the north beach. You can reach the beach by riding your bike and then continue with trekking accross the coconut farm.
The other activity you can do in Tidung is snorkling. You only need to pay IDR 20,000 – 25,000 to rent the snorkling equipment. But if you want to get the best spot for snorkling you need to rent a small boat which cost you about IDR 250,000.
The schedule for the boat to marina harbour is only once a day. Therefore, we need to compete with the other visitors since the capacity of the boat is only around 20. If you can not catch the boat, you can have a ferry as an alternative. But boat to Marina harbour is more comfortable. One suggestion, do not ever take a line in front of the counter when you want to by the ticket. Just sit on the chairs that have been prepared. The queue number will be distributed based on your seat. So, make sure you sit on the front row ;p
For a place that only took 1.5 hours from Jakarta with a very affordable price, I think Tidung offers more than you expect.