madura trip

now I have a good will to write my adventure to madura island a few weeks ago. maybe coz of busy and lazy including dizy makes me so bored and didnt want to write it out.
but now I have it all. hehehe...
actually these trip in kind of 'accident trip'. went to madura island is one of my destination after I finish my thesis, later.
one day, I got sms from my friend (ino). he offered me to join quickcount (QC) of the public election in my province.
once I didnt give him an answer, but suddenly I decided to enter this zone. I take the job coz of:
1. I need money that I could earn from these job.
2. I need to refresh my brain after 1 month I doing my thesis.
3. I love adventure, especially by using motorcycle, and far away from my home.
4. I'll look for my family there, etc.
I join QC training day. I used to do it, coz I've ever do it once. and finally, I got a lot of money! Hurray!
I repair my motorcycle first before I go. 2 hours before midnite formally I go to the target from jember, 12 hours from the target, it is sumenep.
without any permit from my parents, I ride my bike in the late of nite. OMG! its fun but its hurt too.
when I enter sidoarjo, I lost my way. fortunately, I have a feeling that direct me to the right way.
suddenly, when I start entering surabaya city, I almost enter the highway. OMG! coz its coz of I ride my bike at behind of a car. hehehe...
after a lot of struggle for almost half of day, I arrived in sumenep. tired and hurt in my back is what I feel when I feel first time there.
20 years ago I went to sumenep. I forgot most of memory about this town. my aunt direct me to the family in sumenep.
they are so kind. I love them. sumenep is one of residence in indonesia where there is an old kingdom there.
it seems like jogjakarta, bali, cirebon, or another place in indonesia which their old government system are monarch.
I went to the museum, its the first time for me there. so beautiful and interesting for me.
there is a giant Al-Qur'an, when I thought that it was a king's bed in the first time I saw.
my uncle took me to a beautiful beach there. its so wide, calm and nice place. soft and white sand I could find there.
even its more white and softer than belongs to java beach.
I cant believe that I have so many family there. I just knew it after I come to sumenep, alone.
the QC itself run well. but the position of public election place is in the middle of a truly illage area.
even it is next to graveyard. fortunately, its closed by bamboo layer. so I couldnt see it. fiuh...
the weather is so hot, and when the rain comes, its just falls for a few hours, no more than 3 hours. and then the sky come to bright again later.
its so different to java island where the rainfalls coming for along time, even there is no sunlight when its a hard rainfalls.
I just spent my 3 days in sumenep. coz I have to return my QC report to the base, and accept the rest of my fee. once more. hehe...
when I'm on the trip to home and I fill my gas in a gas station in pamekasan, I found another unique place.
common people there call this place as 'api tak kunjung pandam' or 'eternal flame'.
yup, its a natural gas which went out from the ground. they used this to cook their food or another functions.
when I accros the madura strait, I found that suramadu bridge is on the sea and almost finished the construction.
i take a lot of photograph along my journey.
its kind of another adventure for me, as what I've done before to Bali.
What a nive place, but I don't want to live there. hehe...