Out of the three main destinations that we were heading to in my second trip to the East Java, the Tumpak Sewu waterfalls were the place that I was very much looking forward to, simply because I did not go there during my first visit. In fact, I didn’t know the existence of such a place back then so it really was a big miss-out. So fresh from our climb to Kawah Ijen, it would be another 5 hours drive…
Another place of interest that I went to while I was based in Sabah was Murug Turug. I liked to believe that this place was newly discovered, or it was not open to public until a few years back when pictures and videos of a unique-looking waterfall which was half hidden behind a wall of rock flooded the local social media walls. But then, I had come to discover that it had always been there all along, and people had…
So one of the places that I managed to go to when I was still based in Sabah was a place called Aura Montoria. Located in the far corner of the beautiful district of Kota Belud, I had actually heard quite a lot about it and had to put it neatly in the list of my highest priority – and yet it took me almost 2 years before I managed to get around to it. So the day before I…