Batu Karas Beach

A very exciting place to escape from a very extremely dizzy uptown. Batu Karas beach is about 5 km from Pangandaran beach. Located in South beach of West Java, Indonesia. The right place to spend your vacation times. Though it is quiet far from Jakarta, but its worth a trip.

We took a car with my 8 friends, kinda travel car. We went from Jakarta at 9 p.m on Friday night, picked up a friend in Bandung and finished our long trip in Batu Karas beach at 6.30 a.m on Saturday. We live at JavaCove Beach Hotel which already reserved since 2 weeks before. The most beautiful place to live among the other place, although there were some new place but I still love this hotel. The hotel is located right infront of the beach, faces the Java Cove, maybe it is why the owner (Paul and Nik) named their place JavaCove. I totally recommend this place if you wanna go to Batu Karas beach.

We went to Citumang waterfall, about 6 km from Batu Karas Beach. A nice waterfall with cave and pure water. We had to take a walk from the parking park, about 1 km. Once you got there, you would feel like you're in some place like paradise. Some very great views with some nice and beautiful atmosphere. You could swim, jump from the top of the waterfall, if the waterfall is not challenging enough you could always try to jump from roots of the cave, which is about 5 to 6 meters, or even try to pumped up your adrenaline and go inside the cave which ended in the other side of the mountain.

Still want some good places..?? Try to take another walk to the right side of the hotel, passed through the path to the hilland go down to the valley, continue your steps to the very end of the path way and you will find the Batu Manunggal beach, my friends and I ussually call it 'Private Beach'. This some what quiet beach with no baywatch but very clean and cozy place for those who want to enjoy their private times with a very magnificent scenery, really had us went bananas. 'We owned the beach...!!!' oh.. another thing, do not forget to take some water. Why..?? Because it is private beach and no one else is around also those who sell water..!!

It's time to eat...!!! There are so many restaurants along the street, because it's near the beach of course most of them serve seafoods, but they are still chicken or meat. We tried the 'mie ayam' for breakfast, although hotel provided us some western breakfast menu but we still feel like another meal. haha... And the most thank-God thing is all of the food are cheap. There is a 'Warung Nasi' named Warung Nasi Bu Ade, serve some home-made menus, about 3 km from Batu Karas beach, and it also cost very cheap. Oh I love this place..!!

Too bad we had to go back to Jakarta, on Sunday at 2 p.m after we had our lunch at Warung Bu Ade we continue our journey of getting back to the real life. Huhuhu.. Guess what..??!! We arrived in Jakarta at 6 a.m in the morning...!!! Though we often stop our trip at some places but still it was a very tiring but exciting adventure. The good thing was, we always enjoy all of the things we had passed through together. Maybe that is what people say trully frienships. :)

Will absolutely go there again and again and again and again.........

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