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A Day Out at The Longest Suspension Bridge in SouthEast Asia😊

A Day Out at The Longest Suspension Bridge in SouthEast Asia😊

July 2019 · 6 min read

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Suspension Bridge, Situ Gunung, Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia.


Hellow Steemit Fellows😉

It's Thursday😊 but 6 Friends Accompanying by A man who plays as photographer and driver going out for a little adventure to a place known as Situ Gunung.

Situ means Lake and Gunung means Mountain, Suka means Like and Bumi means Earth

After our last meeting at the mall last week, through the Whatsapp group, Devita threw an idea about going out for fun on August 16th. But after a long and hot discussion and everyone seems so excited about it, we finally decided to do that on July 25th. Devita, Vivie, Amelia, Lilis, yustin, Cut Mala and I agreed to go there by car. Though I suggested to take train and rental cars when we reach Sukabumi to feel the real adventure, but I must consider their job on the next day too. Vivie then offered to use her car and we need to find a driver. Lucky that Lilis suggested us to ask her husband, Bang Zaenal as our driver and photographer (Bang Zaenal is working at a TV Station as Cameramen too😉) off course! NO OBJECTIONS, we already Knew him too.

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Yustin couldn't go because her youngest girl is sick and she let us know a 4.am


So.. We agreed to meet at Citos (Cilandak Town Square) at South Jakarta as our meeting point and then pick up Devita at Taman Mini Indonesia Indah. We supposed to meet on 6.am😊 but as usual, I the latest one who came and took my 5 minutes to captured some pictures of flowers at the front side street of Citos😂. So, we left on 6.30 from Citos and enjoy the ride on the car.

We almost lost on our way because we followed the information from the online map😂 lucky that another visitor who wants to go to the same site and following the same map told us that we're wrong. A local man then told us which road to take to reach the site😆.

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So here we are at the front gate where we paid 16k IDR each head😆on 9.30 AM.


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IDR 16K each can be use to access the whole area, but we need to pay IDR 50K each head to access The suspension Bridge.


Well.. The Suspension Bridge is only one of few spots to hit there, the Bridge is at the right side and the lake is at the left side. None seems to want to check on the lake because our main goal is to try the bridge😆 what's the reason? As simple as we need some beautiful photos😂😂

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gathering in front of the Entry Gate to The Suspension Bridge, let Devita buy the pass ticket


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Let the officer put the ticket on the wrist and make evidence that you have access now😂


The welcome drink will be served about 100 metres from the entry gate, need to hike up a bit. I left my girlfriends behind because Im curious😁. I must wait for them though, photo sessions😆

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Coffee, Tea and traditional food such as cassava crackers, steamed banana and steamed cassava, Pose!


We took our welcome drink and food to the theatre, a big stage and line of arranged wood benchs to enjoy your meals😉 the toilets are everywhere and clean too, but the water is biting😄. There are cafés where you can have lunch or drink different coffee but you need to pay for it.

I dunno what makes my girlfriends taking too long just to check on the toilets😂 I walk up alone and enjoy the local musician playing their traditional music performance while waiting for them.

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the sky is so bright but the trees canopy protect them from the sun, so sweet.


I really need to hold my eagerness to try the bridge, because we have a lot of photo sessions😀 still 400 metres up to the bridge. I just can't wait. So I left them and wait at the end of the bridge if I have to.

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Only 11 people on the bridge and it must quite cool rather than 90 persons full (that's the max capacity of the bridge)


We need to wear harness as a standar operating prosedure to be on the bridge. The officer make a second hole on my wrist tag, I dunno where my Girlfriends are, I put on the harness check on the Carabiner in case something ynwanted happened there, I need to hang myself to the side of the bridge.

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I'm aware about safety first.. just need to check how it works 😀


They're still not everywhere.. so I walked alone on the suspension bridge. Helping out a frighten bridge-walker an old lady to the middle part of the bridge to her family, a husband, 2 grandchildren, a daughter and son in law, took their family pictures and continued my walk over the 240 metres long suspension bridge, 150 metres from the ground at the height if 1000 above the sea level😊. Helping some other walkers to take their picture and reach the end of the bridge.

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took my own picture and I couldn't guessed where are they😂


So, I took another walk over the suspension bridge just to check on them. 😂😁😊 there must be a lot of photo sessions and some pale faces that I recognise just made my day😀.

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I really need to fetch them up and make them laugh for fun. The 2 metres wide bridge was shaking because of some frightened walkers. No breeze at all.


It took almost half an hour to really take them all to the end of the bridge and explore the next spot😁 but I think they're not frightening, they're just so exciting about it.

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yaayy we made it😂😂😂


With a help of the gate bridge officer, 7 of us...full team finally at the same frame!

Time to explore the next spot.. but I'll call this post quit now😊 I'll post the next part about our adventures to the Waterfall😊

Thanks for stopping by and see you😀

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