I’ve heard from my friends that Pantai Klayar is beautiful, I was attempted to visit it someday. My colleagues and I visited the beach from Solo, it took around three hours to reach Pacitan, continue with another an hour to the beach. There was no public transportation to the beach, so you have to rent a car or use your personal vehicle. Most of the road was quite good already, but nearer to the beach, the road condition was getting narrower. The lime-stone mountain was already cut to widen the street, unfortunately it’s not finished yet. You must have an expert driver to go there, as the street is enough for one car only. If we bumped into another car from the opposite direction, one of us should drive backward, as it’s not enough for 2 cars. The right side was the lime stone wall, while the left side was the cliff.
Approaching the beach was very amazing, we could see the beautiful wave from the street that was located above it. Unfortunately we could not stop as it’s in the middle of the narrow street. It seems that the government continue building the infrastructure, as we passed by heavy machine equipment to move the street material.
We’re afraid not having food on the beach so we brought lunch box from Solo, my friends had gudeg while fried chicken for me. The beach was close enough to the parking lot, ATV ride was offered right after we went out from the car. We’re starving so we tried to find place to eat first. As there was no bench available for visitors at the eastern coast, we decided to buy fresh coconut to drink and get permission to have our own lunch on the food stall location. It’s already 14:00 o’clock at noon, it’s hot and we’re starving. It’s very relax to have the delicious lunch while enjoying the beautiful wave with its white sand, and drinking cool fresh coconut which was only cost Rp. 7.000,-/pcs.
While eating we saw some people were patient enough to wait for us offering ATV ride to explore the beach. It cost Rp. 25.000,-/person for return trip, one ATV could bring 2 persons. One of my colleague didn’t dare to ride it, so I ride alone when 2 of my colleagues rode together on an ATV. My ATV guide was quite young and active, he was kind enough to take our pictures, and explain about the beach.
Reaching the western side of the beach near ocean flute, which also could be reached by walking, my ATV guide parked the ATV. This ocean flute is a term for the phenomenon where there are existing basin at the bottom of cliffs or rocks on the beach. When the basin hit by the waves of the sea, the sea water out gushes to the surface through the sidelines rocky and produce a beautiful sound like the sound of the flute.
If the tight was not high we could walk approaching the ocean flute location, unfortunately my ATV guide informed that the surf was high for the last 3 days, so the walking path was covering by the waves, and it’s not allowed and dangerous to approach it. As the alternative, he asked us to climb the small hill called ‘Bukit Indah Lestari’ to see the ocean flute from above. On the way up, we could see the other part of the beach with its small caves.
He’s right, from above you could see the ocean flute, unfortunately it’s against the sunshine, it’s rather difficult to take the picture. He was kind enough to take our picture, he was so patient to wait for the big wave to get higher fountain that could be up to 10 meters high. Although the weather was hot, but it’s so windy, I still could enjoy it.
After satisfying taking panorama pictures, we stepped down the hill, taking some pictures with the background of a giant rock such as Sphinx at the eastern side of the beach. We posed on the ATV, I wore a wrong costume, a mini skirt that made me difficult to ride on the ATV, so I had to sit sideways. It’s cool to have picture on the ATV with amazing beach.
The next stop was the black sand surround the black large rock outcrops which was divided the coast to east and west part. The sand was really black such as if bauxite. An interesting phenomenon when the waves hit this rock, it would pass to overflowing, the abundance of water would create interesting sights such as waterfalls. We had to wait for the big waves, to get the amazing scene. I really love it, it's very wonderful.
It’s time to go back to the western part of the coast where our colleague was waiting for us. My ATV guide was kind enough to let me drive the ATV. I had to step on the middle part of the ATV to able to drive. When trying handling the steer, it’s very hard, as the coast was sandy, so I asked help from my ATV guide to help. I’m afraid to get fall when it’s unbalance, so I asked him to be slowly. My 2 other colleagues were not as lucky as me, their ATV was broken in the middle of the way, loosen the chain. Their ATV had to walk slowly and I overtook them to reach the destination.
Reaching the eastern part of the cost, I took some pictures on the green rocks covering with moss. I asked my friend to take my picture with my iphone. The wave here was not as high as the eastern part, but the soft sandy was still nice to play around. I like the scenery with the green rocks. I took off my shoes to play with the wave.
We could not find our colleague who was waiting there previously, we decided to walk on the eastern hill to see the panorama view of Klayar from eastern part. There was a small bungalow on the top of the hill, you could take panoramic picture of the beach with its eastern coast part. We also could see the row of bungalows selling souvenirs, clothes and foods sheltering by coconut trees.
For facilities and infrastructure at the beach was good enough, we could find a mushola, clean bathrooms, and food stalls. I would like to stay longer, but thinking the journey to Solo would take another 4 hours, we had to leave the beach soon. Finding the driver we’ve just known that our colleague was sleeping in the car while waiting for us. Before going back, we asked her to take some pictures on the beach. It’s a pity if she didn’t have any picture on the beautiful beach after struggling for a long journey. It’s true, Klayar beach is very wonderful and amazing, it should become one of the list for your holiday.
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