I'm going to tell you about my trip with my family, so basically we decided to spend our holiday in Jawa Timur and Bali
On 25th of December, my family and I went to Gresik by train. The train left at around 06.30 pm, it took about 13 hours to get there. We arrived the next morning and took a rest for the rest of the day.
On 27th of December, we woke up early in the morning because we are going to Bali by car, it is around 10 hours trip. We didn't drive by car all the way to Bali because we have to get across by ferry. And again we took the rest of the day to prepare for the next day.
The next day we got the chance to snorkel, it's just a regular snorkel around the beach, nothing special, because we use this opportunity to practice before the real snorkel. After we're done, we went sightseeing to Pura Belatung, we took a lot of photos and had a nice chat with the caretaker. The next place we went to is White Sandy Beach, again we took a lot of photos.
On the 29th of December, I was woken up with a pleasant surprise, my cousin stood in front of my hotel room door and sang happy birthday for me, complete with all the cake and candles. After all of that, we ride a boat to go dolphin sightseeing, we saw a couple of dolphin, I was really happy even though I can't see the dolphin clearly. And then, we went snorkeling, we stopped in place but then we moved to the other because the wave was too strong for us. On the second place, it is much more shallow. It was fine and all until all of us suddenly got an itch in some area. One of my cousin find out what caused the itch and it was a small jellyfish. We swam into the deeper part, there were a lot of beautiful fish, corals and starfish. There are also shells, sea urchin and a coral that needs to be avoided because it's poisonous. We went back to our hotel at around noon and went back.On the same day we were going to go to Kawah Ijen but most of us decided that it wasn't a good idea because we're all tired. So, we looked for hotels in Banyuwangi and decide to stay there for a night. The next day, we went back to Gresik, we arrived at around 11 pm and took a rest.
On 31st of December, some of us decided to go to the mall we shop for food and had a karaoke for about 2 hours. When we arrived home, we cooked for New Years, there were a lot of food. It's not that fun because we end up sleeping quite early.
On 1st of January, we went to the mall, again, a different one though. We went to the cinema and decided to watch Why Him ? it was really funny and we all enjoyed it.
My family and i went back to Bandung at 3rd of January by train, and arrived early in the morning the next day. Overall it is a very fun trip and I really enjoyed it, there were a lot of laughs among us, and I hope you all had a nice holiday too.
