Cast away at Pulo Cinta Eco Resort, Gorontalo

from 30 m above, taken with Dji Phantom 3

Warning ... this post contains alot of pictures that can make you "ngeces", the image of the picts maybe can last until 3 days when you close your eyes ... hahaha.

Last Monday i had a chance to visit Sulawesi Island for the first time. Every "first time" for me is nervous, i wonder what kind of situation that will i face there, but surely the excitement is addict. Pulo Cinta Eco resort located at Tomini Gulf Sulawesi, Gorontalo. The plane took of at 7 am, 2 hours flew, landed in Makasar, transit time for about 20 minutes and flew again to Gorontalo about 1 hour. Inside the plane that has capacity of 200 chairs, there were only few people ... maybe about 25 there, including my family. Not really famous destination i guess. 

Actually, what do you expect from Gorontalo tourism? Before, i was no idea, i just knew Pulo Cinta Eco resort from a paid Blogger. The place in the picture was candy of my eyes. When saw it, i flashed back my times in Maldives, ok hmm ... so later i will tell my experience there, but now back to Gorontalo tourism. If you are not sea and sun fans, hmm surely you will get bored here. I will try describe one by one. In Gorontalo there is the famous Olele Beach the place you can snork or dive to see Salvador Dali sponge coral, in Gorontalo you also can snork and swim with the giant soft hearted shark whale, Destiny in Finding Dory movie, but only in April until May in a year. In Gorontalo you can visit and experience cast away life at Pulo Cinta Eco resort, In Gorontalo you can visit Kampung Bajo tribe and buy life lobster with only 200.000 Idr / Kg, this tribe once i saw in TV how they dive so brave, they are famous as very expert sailor. Ok, there are famous spot that i know in Gorontalo. Anyway drove through Gorontalo city, reminds me of "pulang kampung" in Belitung, the houses, the neighbourhood similiar with Belitung in Sumatra.

The view from above Gorontalo when the plane almost landing was so spectacular, but also preculiar. For me It so unusual to saw that kind of beautiful facade of earth. I've been everywhere in the world, but this one was so special, the beauty was none i've ever seen in any place, i was awe, later i will share the video. 

Landed 1 pm in Djalaludin Airport Gorontalo, the airport is very small with only two parking spaces for airplane. From aiport, i continued 3 hours car to Boalemo district, to the pier of Pulo Cinta. Well it was not a friendly road, the road was winding and uphill, if you ever gone to Puncak, the road is exactly the same but very long, super long and longger. So my sugest, prepare plastic for your vomit. Arrived at the pier, continued with speed boat for almost 30 minutes. The Pulo Cinta actualy is a sand bank in the middle of the sea at Tomini gulf.  The weather was drizzle when i arrived there, no sun at all.

cuss kita, from pier to Pulo Cinta

Glad i made it here! Sun where are you ?

I was so amazed with my villa, the design, the material, and the spectacular view of my bed room. I watched specificaly all the wood they put it one by one in very simple and humble way, it was like they want to create it as natural as it can, but the design of the villa was very avant garde ...umm .. at least for me.

the bed i think was super king size, it was so big!

This is the resto the food, water, and snack was unlimited! Eat until you drop

the view from my bed room day 1 without the sun

the view from another bed room with the sun

I love the villa, looks soo preculiar for me.

I enjoyed being "anak pulau", i walked with bare food everywhere in the island, if i wanted to swim i jumped into the water, if hungry i went to the resto, the resto will serve food, snack, and water without limit. No sunscreen, no umbrella, no sandal, no hairdryer, no fake, i feel so natural and free ... in the noon. But the night, it really depended on solar cell above the villa, it was so depended with the sun. If no sun in the daylight so prepare for "mati kutu" at the night, sometimes no electricity, no TV, no water, no aircon ... Internet? ... in your dream. The wifi was fake, on the phone screen the signal was strong, but couldn't connect at all. But no wifi no problem, the kids throwed away their cellphone and became "anak pulau", so proud of them. Eventhough can not compare to five stars Baros Maldives resort, I really enjoyed the life of "terdampar", it was truly another exotic experienced in my life. Thank u God, you are so good.

when the night came

Things to do in Pulo Cinta Eco Resort :

Swim ... ready to jump!

and jump again ...

or you can naik bebek ... if you bored

Or you can visit Kampung Bajo to buy lobster, they are very expert sailorman.

Bajo tribe village

Snorkling, but unfortunaly the sea city under ... not really put my jaw droped.

and berjemur, sun bath on the bebek.

visit the baby shark whale ... Destinyyy

That were all my activities in Pulo Cinta for 3 days and 2 night. Thank u for reading ... attraversiamo!

Daun Karya First Charter ... Thank You

Baru aja kemarin, litteraly kemarin! saya update blog mengenai Daun tim building yang dilaksanakan Januari 2017, kemarin tepatnya tanggal 4 Mei 2017 Daun Karya mendapat penghargaan dari Bank BTN, selaku penyalur kredit perumahan terbesar di Indonesia. Daun Karya Development merupakan Pengembang dengan realisasi KPR non-subsidi terbanyak periode 2016-2017 di BTN Harapan Indah Bekasi. 

I Just wanna say, Thank you Lord Jesus, Thank you to our consumers, thank you to my beloved Daun team, thank you Bank BTN.

Hopefully we will be better and best in the future, Ameen

Attraversiamo ... terimakasih untuk para pembaca, Gbu.

Daun Team Building - Pulau Tidung 2017

Dedauners foto di atas jembatan cinta, menggunakan Dji Phantom 3

8 Januari 2017, bisa dikatakan hari yang bersejarah untuk Daun, karena untuk pertama kalinya saya dan tim akhirnya mengadakan tim building. Tahun - tahun kemarin, saya lebih berfokus mengenalkan dunia luar, Bali dan Singapura sama anak - anak personel - personel Daun ... biar pada pinter. Maklum deh, 90 persen dari mereka belum pernah naik pesawat, bahkan main paling jauh aja mungkin cuma 20 km. Tahun 2017 saya menarik diri, mengadakan selebrasi simpel hanya di Pulau Tidung, target outing kali ini adalah menanamkan visi 2017, sekaligus untuk saling mengakrabkan untuk kerjasama lebih baik sepanjang 2017.

Setelah tiba di Pulau Tidung, saya cukup kaget, karena ini juga pertama kali saya menginjakan kaki di sini, pulau ini ternyata cukup bagus, lautnya tidak kalah dengan ... katakanlah Gili Trawangan. Dari dermaga, saya dan para dedauners ... panggilan saya untuk para personel Daun, kami bersepeda menuju penginapan kami di cottage Puri Tidung.  Salah satu EO saya mengatakan kalau dulu pulau ini kotor, banyak sampah dan airnya tidak jernih, tetapi mungkin berkat Gubernur kita, pak Ahok, yang sangat peduli, pulau ini disulap menjadi salah satu destinasi wisata yang murah, tetapi tidak kalah dengan Gili, sumpahhhh. Ongkos naik kapal pulang pergi hanya 300.000 IDR, penginapan hanya sekitar 100.000 IDR per orang per malam, bisa dapat menikmati alam seindah ini. Saya berdoa Gubernur baru yang terpilih bisa terus melestarikan pulau ini, bahkan kalau bisa menyerupai Pulo Cinta Eco ... aminn. 

Dermaga Pulau Tidung, perjalanan dari Ancol Marina ke sini memakan waktu kurang lebih 1 jam.

kring ... kring ada speda ... yang pakai baju putih merah itu namanya pak Zen, sehari - hari zaim puool, tapi he had lot of fun there, jarang - jarang bisa liat dia melepas ke zaim-an ... hahaha.

Awan badai dari jembatan cinta

Dauners bersiap untuk snorkling, biar muka - muka bandit tapi kayak kucing pada takut air. Tapi mereka semua ini jagoan - jagoan saya, i lop u pull, tapi yang om - om depan ini yang pakai kaca mata item dan topi putih, bukan jagoan tapi follower setia dauners ... hahaha. 

Salah satu acara adalah menuliskan beberapa hal mengenai diri kita yang mau kita ubah untuk masa depan yang lebih baik, dan menuliskan pengharapan kita di masa depan, lampion akan terbawa ke laut dan terbakar mengirimkan doa ke Pencipta.

Pagi merekah di Dermaga

Good morning sunshine, jembatan cinta dan tiang awan ada di belakang miss sunshine yang belom diet

Kelompok para manusia super (isinya bos - bos) yang jadi juara dua karena ngalah, Paris Good

Siapa yang menciptakan foto gaya Shinchan gini ya ? #GarukPala, tapi manusia yang sehari - hari jaim pun mau gokil - gokilan dan melakukan pose begini hahaha, it was a moment that will be remembered, thank u to Robby, ci Ibeth, and Leo for all the program, all the patient, all the fun, and offcourse all the memories. 

jangan liat saya, tapi liat betapa keren alamnya... saya juga keren! hahaha, tribute to ayunan somplak yang ada di cottage.

Kalau ada red riding hood, ini ada red riding sandal, kontras sekali ya laut, langit, awan, dan sendal merahnya, kegedan pula, sumpah bukan punya saya

Untuk 2017 yang lebih baik, lebih membangun, lebih bermanfaat, supaya yang jomblo ga jomblo lagi, dan yang terpenting supaya 80 M target tercapai hahaha ... doa dari jembatan cinta Pulau Tidung.

Mari loncat, buktikan nyali anda! Salah satu hal yang bikin nggak bisa tidur, adalah memikirkan lompat dari jembatan cinta, bikin penasaran, antara takut dan pengen uji nyali. 

Beginilah penampakan dalam laut Pulau Tidung, lautnya bersih bening, bisa jadi putra dan putri duyung disini.

Eh putri duyung lupa diet on duty, pipinya kewer - kewer, liat betapa banyak ubur - ubur yang unyu - unyu itu, some of them menyengat, jadi harap berhati - hati ketika free dive disini.

Well, demikian cerita dan memori saya di Pulau Tidung, ini sedikit sajak dari saya

Jangan lupa main ke sini

Daripada jauh - jauh ke Bali

Semoga dengan Gubernur yang sudah berganti

Pulau Tidung tetap Lestari 

eaaaaaaaa ..... attraversiaomo, thank u for reading, God bless u.