Tour day 2 & 3: Garut -> Pangandaran

After relaxing in Garut (but being rudely awakend by the mosk at 5 o'clock in the morning) we went on our way to pangandaran. Our first stop was a small factory where they were making traditional candy. It was fun to watch the people work and we could join in on the action ;)! We continued on the beautiful and relaxing landscape: Ricefields and huge mountains in the background. We spend some time looking at people work in the fields and saw the "sticky rice" cookies.

We made a stop at the dragon village. This is a village where sumatran people (old javanese people) where still living according their own traditions. But sadly because of an argument with the government they did not allow tourist in the village anymore: Taboe!!

Ehm... this doesn't look how it's supposed to be :s...

On our way to pangandaran we also visited an old dutch railway/motorway bridge and stopped at a nice viewing point at the indonesian south sea! We made it to pangandaran and in contrast with all the chaos we saw along the road, pangandaran looked like a relaxing surfing place! chill!!

The next day we were in for the green canyon and some swimming! We started from the hotel and passed through an area that was hit by the tsunami. A lot of the houses where destroyed, but the wave made it only 200m land inwards so fortunately a lot was also still standing.

After that we saw some traditional brown sugar making. It was nice to see what they could do with coconuts: Fuel, drinks, candy and sugar: everything was useful. We also stopped by the local puppet maker: Here we saw how traditional wooden puppets where made. We were amazed by the details and got a little show from the puppeteer! It was fun and we thought about buying one, but with a price of 700.000 and still 2 months carying it around we decided not too.

So after this we went to the citumang waterfall!! a nice place which was the main source for water supply in the village. We could walk all the way up to the waterfall and jump off!! Fun!! there was also a cave we could look in, but suddenly horror struck us!!

Ronald was climbing up the rocks when his feet slipped. It should not be more then a minor scratch but he looked as his foot: WTF!!! his nail was not where it should be!! Half in shock he climbed up the rock and out of the water where he had to take in the sight!! BLEH!!!!

OMG? What to do next??... well we have to visit the doktor!! We hurried back to the car and fortunately found a doktor praktek next to the road! It looked clean and the small muslim pregnant doktor was professional: The worst fear was comming true: She had to remove the complete nail!! (Puke!!).. So Beng Beng was holding Ronald against the table, Yvette was holding his hand and the doktor used her "equipment" to pull out the nail!! After 5 minutes it was done... Ronald got a lot of pills and some bandage for the wound.. Too bad :( no more swimming for Ronald in the next 2 weeks at least!!

After recuperation of the whole operation at lunch it was time to visit the green canyon (with or without toe nail). It was a beautiful boat ride to a big "cave" the lighting was gorgeous and water was dribbling down everywhere!! Yvette got in her bikinni and jumped into the water! She could swim even further into the canyon against the stream! It was beautiful and a lot of action-packed fun.

Afterwards we went via a bamboo bridge to another lookout point! Time to relax at the hotel again and hope for the best of Ronald's toe nail!!