During our trip in Bali, of course we had planned to visit their beautiful beaches. One of them was Pandawa beach near Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK), it's also called "Secret Beach". Formerly there was no good infrastructure as current, people had to walk up to the hill then going down at another side to reach the beach. Now a new road has been built through the hill, water sports especially canoeing was available, it's easier to reach.
There was Daihatsu event when we would turned to the right on the last crossroad junction to the beach. So many cars participated to the event, it's impacted to the very long convoy and we're not allowed to go through it. After waiting for around 15 minutes for the uninterrupted convoy, a policeman was kind enough to let us go through among them. Thank you for giving us the way Mr. nice policeman :-)
The cloud was so dark, it's almost raining. You would go through a beautiful hemisphere limestone hill on the way to the beach. It's very amazing with its gradation color of the stone. We had to pay IDR 15.000,- for entrance fee. Suddenly we could see the beach beneath the limestone wall. I asked our driver for stopping on the top of the beach at the end of the hemisphere. We took some beautiful pictures with camera and also smartphone for instant upload. Lucky that we had a chance to take good pictures, just right before a very heavy raining that made us running fast to the car.
We continued the journey by car going down to the beach passing the statues of a mouse and 5 Pandawa figures which were placed in the holes on the slope. The rain got harder, as we didn't want to get wet to go to the beach with umbrella, so we stayed in the car at the parking lot checking our photos and upload some pictures in our smartphone to be shared with others. The heavy rain made the parking lot flooding and some impromptu waterfalls appeared on the cliff. I took picture of the waterfall that we could not find if it's not raining.
After half an hour waiting in the car, we decided to go to the other end of the beach where there was a simple food-court selling meal and beverage. Waiting for the rain to stop, we bought tea and snacks, I kept taking picture of the beach under my umbrella. After another 30 minutes, the rain stopped, suddenly it's replaced with a very bright sun. My mom and sisters joined me to walk on the beach. It's white sandy beach located in Kutuh village where local residents make the beach as place to farm seaweed.
We took some beautiful pictures on the beach, with its unique cliff and bright clean water. When my sister posed on the beach, suddenly a big wave coming made her shorts wet. Actually she was luckier than me, as half of my body was getting wet up to the waist. We played with the soft sand, wrote our name on the sand, then taking pictures. After tired playing with the waves and sand, we decided to go back to the parking lot that was flooded during the rain.
This side was more crowded with tourist as it's the center of entertainment place for water sport. We walked to the beach through a small bridge, both domestic and overseas tourist were visiting the beach. Many busses brought many visitors, also the Daihatsu members were still enjoying the beach. So many canoes available there, also rented sunbathing chairs with big umbrella. You could play water sport there including surfing. After the rain, the sun was shining so strong, I didn't bring my sunglasses, so I almost could not see it's very dazzled. We didn't plan to play water sport as we still had many places to visit and we were hungry. We returned to our car to go to the next destination for lunch now. Although our clothes were getting wet, we didn't change, as we would still play at another beach after that.
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