PNK PENGERANG: SURABAYA, Mt. BROMO, BATU Tour, 22 – 25 March 2017

Wednesday, 22 March 2017, at 12 noon we have landed at International Airport Juanda Surabaya. After passing through immigration issue, we grab our baggage and went out of that airfield directly for lunch at Sederhana Restaurant, Sidoarjo. After satisfied with the Padang food, we went to PGS (Pusat Grossir Surabaya) Pasar Turi, the centre of retail with cheaper price; unfortunately that PGS would be closed in 2 hour, due to our limited time, so we just spending a little. Our tour continued to the House of Sampoerna, the industrial unit of Sampoerna where the cigarette produces manually. Before leaving for Mount Bromo, we stopped over at Lesehan Joyo Restaurant for dinner, the Javanese taste.

At 12 midnight, we arrived at Bromo Permai Hotel transit to take a rest for a while. At 2 am, by the four wheel drive, we were ready to reach the peak to be the first person (of course being with others) in the east java area for seeing the sun rise that day. Along the journey at that dawn to the peak, we have seen others four wheel drives, just looked like fireflies in the dark. Within 45 minutes we were at the peak. In the 8-9 degree temperature, there were so many many many people waiting for Mr. Sun rises…. Sadly, until 6 am the Sun still unseen, it was covered by cloud and fog. We were unlucky that day, we couldn’t meet Mr. Sun; thus we just took a picture with the beautiful scene around Mount Bromo, the active volcano, and the last eruption was on January 2015.

After clean up and late breakfast at hotel, we had to take more 3 hours drive to get Malang City to taste the famous and special food of Malang, Bakso, the meat ball. In fact, bakso is just an appetizer not main course, however, at Bakso Kota Cafe, where that bakso was served in full and complete (bakso and its friends) with one giant meat ball; at the end we had no lunch anymore due to glut of bakso. After all, we went directly to Batu city; with first destination was Wisata Petik Apple, the apple picking tour, where we could reap apple directly from the tree, and eat it as much as we can. But, if we wanted to take that apple home, we had to buy it. After harvesting apple, we continued to Museum Angkut, the museum that consist of so many type of vehicles existed since ancient times, with the concept of an environment that resembles the original state of that vehicle was derived. After exploring museum Angkut, we felt hungry and had a dinner at Lesehan Joglo Dau, the Javanese food. We checked in Samara Hotel Batu to clean up before going to last destination that day which was a BNS, Batu Night Spectacular, a tour rides night such as drag race, mouse coaster, 4D theatre, etc.

Friday morning, we had breakfast at hotel, while some of us swam at the hotel before continued exploring Batu city, that was a Jatim Park 2, tour destination that combine a science education concept (learning park) and technology; and divided into Museum Satwa (=Fauna); Batu Secret Zoo and Eco Green Park. Before leaving for Surabaya we had lunch at Mbok Sri Restaurant, the Javanese food, and shop for souvenir and snack at Barawijaya Istana Oleh Oleh and also other mini markets. On the way to Surabaya we also stopped over in Tanggulangin Village, known as the centre of leather industry (bag, wallet, jacket, shoe, etc) for local and international market.

Arrived at Surabaya, we had dinner at Sederhana Restaurant, and then checked in Halogen Hotel, close to Juanda Airport, just for transit, caused we would back to Johor Bahru on the first flight. Morning call was at 03.30 AM, we had to cleaned up, prepared anything, early had breakfast at hotel, checked out hotel and went to Juanda International Airport, and back home safely…. Alhamdulillah… Thanks a lot God…

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