Waterfall trip
Last weekend Billy and I went to explore a waterfall with a few of our friends. It took about an hour to get there on our motorbikes, then a walk through some farmland to a secluded waterfall. It was really nice getting out of the city for a day.
We left at 9 in the morning with our friends Melanie, Jim, and his wife, Vini. We took back roads up to Lembang, North of Bandung. We stopped along the way for a view of Bandung and the mountains.
It was a beautiful sunny morning, and the air felt fresh and cool. The ride to the waterfall took us through some small neighborhoods, and I was reminded that I’m living in a place so different from where I grew up. When we parked our bikes, the locals that run some little warungs (small shops that sell food, snacks and/or cigarettes) let us leave our helmets with them while we explored. It was a nice walk through farmlands to the waterfall. I’m not sure what the crop was, but we think it might’ve been watercress. The land was like a rice paddy, with little elevated walkways, surrounded by pools that held shallow water with plants growing in them. We had to walk single-file, as the walkway was quite narrow, and in some parts also muddy and slippery.
When we got to the waterfall it was about 10:30, and the waterfall and its surrounding water was in a shadow. We sat on some rocks and relaxed in the strong breeze and mist from the waterfall. At around 11:00 the sun peeked around the hillside, and the waterfall and it’s pool were in the sun.
After basking on the rocks for a while, we decided to climb a path that led up the hillside by the waterfall. From high on the hillside you could see the waterfall and some of the surrounding greenery, as well as the farmlands that we’d walked through on the way to the waterfall.
After a little hiking, and a lot of fresh air, we were pretty hungry. We stopped in at a modest little warung nearby for some lunch and had some tofu with peppers, tempe, fried fish and rice, with sweet iced tea. After that we went to another place that Jim and Vini knew for some fresh juice. Billy and I each had a Mango/Orange combo, and they were only $0.50 each. Then, on our way back home Jim insisted we stop at a popular ice cream shop for some of their ice cream popsicle things. The ice cream was good, but I thought I was going to burst before I had that. 
It was early evening by the time we got home, and Billy and I were both exhausted. We ended up taking a nap for a couple hours, and decided to just have a quiet night at home with a good night’s rest. It was a great mini adventure, and Jim and Vini have suggested that we go on a weekend-long trip for another waterfall adventure soon.
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