Paralayang di Bukit Paralayang Puncak

Terbang di atas ketinggian 1300 meter di atas permukaan laut? Luar biasa!!! Pengen lagi dan lagi, beneran deh!!! Trip kali ini mencoba untuk sedikit menguji nyali dan menantang, yaitu Paralayang atau Paragliding di Puncak bersama dengan tujuh orang cewek-cewek tangguh yaitu ebi, icut, zahara, esra, icha, oliv, dan bea. Perjalanan dilakukan hari Sabtu tanggal 2 Mei 2015 diawali dengan berkumpul di Stasiun Bogor pukul 07.00 WIB.

How to go there?
Kami menyewa salah satu angkutan umum Kota Bogor untuk mengantarkan kami sampai ke tujuan, yaitu Bukit Paralayang. Jadi, karena bertepatan dengan long weekend, kawasan Puncak mengalami kemacetan lalu lintas yang sangat parah. Oleh karena hal itu tarif sewa angkot di Bogor mengalami kenaikan drastis. Pada hari normal, satu angkot jurusan Bogor sampai Puncak dapat di sewa seharga Rp 200.000,- sampai Rp 250.000,- (pulang-pergi) namun berhubung sedang high-season holiday harga sewa angkot dipatok menjadi dua kali lipat sekitar Rp 400.000,- sampai Rp 500.000,-. Sudah mahal, macet pula ckck, perjalanan dari Bogor menuju Puncak yang normal ditempuh hanya 1 jam saja bisa menjadi 4 jam. Lokasi Bukit Paralayang ini terletak di Kawasan agrowisata (Naringgul) Gunung Mas atau lebih dikenal dengan Bukit Gantolle. Sekitar 300 meter dari Masjid At-Ta’awun lalu tinggal belokkan setir dan pasang mata ke kanan jalan (arah Jakarta).

How much we must pay?
Tiket masuk perorangan ke kawasan tersebut sebesar Rp 13.000,- (sudah termasuk asuransi), mobil Rp 5.000,- dan motor Rp 2.000,-. Kawasan tersebut ditutup pada jam 17.00 WIB. So, sebaiknya datanglah ke sana sebelum sore hari. Rombongan kami tiba di lokasi sekitar pukul 15.00 WIB dan Puji Tuhan, cuaca cerah (tidak panas), angin stabil, tidak ngantri, dan bisa langsung terbang menghilangkan kepenatan selama di perjalanan. Sekali terbang dikenakan biaya Rp 350.000,- (include sertifikat dan asuransi) untuk orang lokal dan Rp 400.000,- untuk WNA.

Pendaftaran dilakukan jauh-jauh hari sebelum hari H, dengan menghubungi kontak dari pihak Bukit Paralayang. Pendaftaran on the spot sebenarnya bisa dilakukan, namun prioritasnya tetap untuk pendaftar yang sudah booking dan DP jauh-jauh hari. DP di transfer ke rekening Pak Nixon dengan nominal Rp 50.000,- per orang. Sedangkan sisanya bisa dibayarkan langsung di bagian pendaftaran. Karena sudah mendaftar jauh-jauh hari, sesampai di sana kami langsung melakukan pelunasan, pendataan nama urutan terbang dan langsung diarahkan untuk terbang. 

What we do in Bukit Paralayang?
Tidak banyak breifing yang disampaikan oleh instruktur, hanya arahan untuk berlari dan rileks diawal-awal terbang. Sebelum terbang, badan kita dipasangkan alat pengaman dan ransel besar yang bisa juga digunakan untuk menyimpan tas kita. Semua alat pengaman dipastikan oke dan nyaman dipakai, selain itu jangan khawatir karena ada instruktur bersertifikat yang akan mendampingi kita terbang di udara selama 5-10 menit. Saran gue sih, sepersuasif mungkin kita harus melakukan pendekatan kepada instruktur pendamping biar kita di bawa terbangnya lama. Selain itu kalau kamu berani, request aja manufer-manufer atau gaya-gaya terbang yang di luar dari kebiasaan, pasti bakal jadi lebih seru hehe.

Di udara, something you must to do is taking picture. It's safe kok bawa kamera atau tongsis atau handycam di udara asal dipegang dengan erat. Selfie juga bisa loh hihi. Benar-benar amaze banget sama pemandangan di udara, keren banget, sumpah! Jarang-jarang menikmati pemandangan seperti ini dan bisa merasakan rasanya terbang melayang bak burung-burung di udara. Pretty cool! I feel like I'm literally on the top of the world, yiipiieee!!! Angkat kaki tinggi-tinggi, begitulah cara landing yang dianjurkan oleh instruktur, gak berasa tiba-tiba sudah duduk diatas tanah. Tidak ada perasaan takut atau deg-deg-an sama sekali, adanya malah ketagihan dan ingin terbang terus-menerus hehe.

Setelah landing, di lapangan landing akan ada jasa foto dari para crew, dimana satu foto dikenakan biaya Rp 30.000,- per foto dengan ukuran 8R atau Rp 5.000,- per foto untuk soft copy saja (jadi kalau mau soft copy, bring your own disk). Oh ya, untuk sertifikat terbang bisa diambil setelah terbang di meja pendaftaran atau bisa request ke pihak yang bersangkutan untuk dikirimkan via JNE.

Here're some tips:

• Kita gak tahu kondisi angin di atas bagaimana, jadi better kalau kita stand by dari pagi hari sembari menunggu kondisi angin yang memungkinkan untuk terbang. Karena kalau datang terlalu sore, bisa jadi penerbangannya sudah tutup.
• Pakailah baju dan celana panjang yang sekiranya nyaman digunakan (short pants is able, tapi kondisi di atas cukup dingin jadi emang better pakai celana panjang). Don't use skirt or baju ketekan haha. Dan kalau perlu ya pakai jaket, kalau emang kamu gak kuat angin.
• BRING YOUR CAMERA! It's a must! Don't be affraid, it's safe! Sebenarnya ada juga jasa penyewaan Go Pro Camera dengan biaya sewa Rp 150.000,- jika kamu berminat.
• Use sunblock untuk mukamu, menghindari terik matahari kalau kamu kebagian terbang pada siang hari.
• Bring some snacks or foods and drinks. Trust me bakalan susah buat cari makan, apalagi makanan berat.
• Berat badan minimal 45 kg dan maksimal 90 kg. So, watch out your weight!
• Pakai sepatu sport atau sepatu yang tidak mudah lepas dari kakimu. Jangan pakai sendal yah, riskan banget jatuh soalnya.

Paralayang atau paragliding ini bisa jadi alternatif liburan kamu, if you bored with the mall or city hurly-burly. Selain tempatnya yang dekat dengan ibu kota, keseruan terbang di atas awan bisa membantumu menjernihkan kembali pikiran yang suntuk sebelumnya. So, happy paragliding! You won't regret it :)

On the top of the world

Safety first

After paragliding landing

With paragliding team of trip
(Ki-Ka: Dee, Bea, Icut, Icha, Oliv, Esra, Zahara, dan Ebi)

I believe I can fly,

Dewi Lestari Natalia.

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How Do You Deal With The Issues?

My heart is broken to see my country even the world break. Lack of empathy, less of hearing, pieces of ignorance, ironically in this democracy country, we lost the taste of itself. We are starting growing up individually, and second by second lost of our connection to each other. It breaks my heart when watch people complaining, blaming, dropping, and fighting each other, even the government. Where is sincerity? I ponder. And when we no longer recognize kindness and only strive for competition or satisfaction, where is the joy in this life? Has sisterhood traveled too far? Hmm...

In the middle of globalization issues, what is your opinion? And how do you do with that? In the news of media, I see people have their own opinion and they speak up about that. It's nice. But if you speak without hearing or caring, maybe you feel that yours the one and only truest opinion, where is the value of empathy? People is judging. Almost all the judgments designated to our government or at least to people with the highest position around the issues. Why it must be concern to the leaders? Didn't we realize that maybe we included take the responsibility for the outstanding issues? 

Breathing a bit, talking about the issue of prostitution, for example. There're some plans of government policies concerned with the issue. Then, let's move to execution. The government dared to take the action to do the execution for narcotics convicts. And how about the Asian-African Conference commemoration? Does it just the responsible of the government? Maybe mostly yes, but it didn't mean that it regardless the society responsibility, right? So how do you deal with that? What is the right option we shall do? I think there are some things which can we do. Let's role down your eyes in the next sentences:

1. Think positively - "Thinking positively changes you whole perspective on life" by Unknown. Who's agree with this statement? I am. Yeah, I suggest you to see whole the issues with positive side. Because it will help you positioning yourself as others. You'll think as if you were them. Although, all the issues have any positive and negative sides, but trust me, if you get the positive one, you will never complaining of something.
2. Positioning yourself as others position - This one is the next step after you succeed thinking positively. You should try to feel how others feel in their own position. Let's take an example, if there's an issue about Jakarta which involve the governor of Jakarta, get the positive thinking after that try to positioning yourself as a governor of Jakarta or Jakarta's people. Ah, you can try positioning yourself into one or two characters.
3. Don't Judge! - I think the quote "Don't judge a book by its cover" still prevail until this time. So, do we. Especially if we do not know for sure about the truth of the existing. Judging will make an injustice condition. It also hurt someone's heart because it didn't suitable between people's judgement and the their self indeed. Judging will aggravate the issues.
4. Talk less, do more! - The word which we must speak up, please speak! But remember, balance your word with action. The smallest of actions is so much better or braver or smarter than the biggest of intentions. This thing is not about the society, but also for the leader in all position. Leadership is all about making good things happen. About getting great things done. About the translation of beautiful ideas into brilliant results. 

Yups, overall we must see the issues in many perspective, not just in your perspective or him or her. Be careful, we have surely though positively, stopped judging, talked less, did more, but sometimes still we feel lack of all that things, still complaining with the word 'but'. This word always manages to diminish the positivity that was previously said, reminding us again and again that almost is never enough (like Ariana Grande said). Basically why we always think the government consists of obnoxious individuals when solve the issues and why they sometimes seem irritating when dealing with us might depend on our mindset about them and the issues itself.

I personally think the problem of the issues is well rooted in the mindset of each individual of human society. The chap on the highest seat in the government organization might change but the human resource stays the same. Or whatever, whoever it is, we will face on the issues. And that's not as bad as you think. The reason why I write this post is because I respect somebody who'd dedicate his or her life to serve this great country in the middle of so many outstanding issues. They deserve the perks. If they serve the country. If they serve wholeheartedly and get full supporting from the society. It should be. So, Is the world breaking because of the issues? Maybe. But we can save it, together.

"Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."

(Yeremia 29:7)

Sincerely wish this made sense,
Dewi Lestari Natalia

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