Diary of Bajaj Race

Two days in Ambon

Dear diary, this is our first experience to go to Ambon.

First day, that day although we were tired because of our trip from Jakarta. But after we arrived in Ambon, we directly felt fresh. Because over there, the panorama was very beautiful. We took our Bajaj to look for the hotel, after we went around in that place for about an hour the last we found the hotel that was good. In that hotel for every window could directly see the beach, so that’s way we checked in the hotel. Then we looked for something to eat, in Ambon there were many food. So we were confused which one that we will choose, we decided to eat in Restaurant that located beside Siwalima Museum.

 The taste of the food was really delicious and we all enjoyed it. After we were full, we continued our trip in that place, we interested with Siwalima Museum so we visited that museum. That museum was unique because the building from that museum there were two. But the distance of two building was so far, until one or two hundred meters. Then in that place there were three skeletons of whale, and also the museum saved many Maluku’s culture and custom uniform. In the first door in Siwalima Museum there was a sentence. The sentence was “ Usu Mae Upu “ the meaning in English was “ please get in “ like that. After we were satisfied in that museum, we came back to our hotel by Bajaj.

On the way we saw many fisherman were going to the sea to look for the fishes. The unique one were they all together and make a line in the beach and one by one they took their bout and went to the sea. And that was very unique and we were amazed of them. So we stopped our Bajaj and stayed in that place for several minutes, one of us wanted to know that place so I asked one of seller in that place. I asked the name of that place to the seller and the seller answer if that place’s name was Natsepa beach. We were happy because we knew the name of that place and we also knew the location, so tomorrow we could visit that place. Then we continued to came back to the hotel. After we arrived in the hotel, we one by one took off from the Bajaj and went to bedroom.

 We took a shower first after that we were hungry so we look for restaurant again for our dinner. We took on our Bajaj and started to look for place for our dinner. And we found the good place, we directly got in and called the servant because we were very hungry. We asked the menu list to the servant and we were surprised because un that place every price of the food was expensive. Oh, we just smiled and chose the cheaper than other. We did not care with the taste because we were very hungry so we directly ate that food but after we taste it we all say “ mantap”. Although the price was cheap but the taste was very delicious. We all ate the food while we were sharing about our activities that day. We all very enjoyed that moment, we laugh together while some visitors in that restaurant were looking at us.

But we did not care about that, we just enjoyed at the moment. When we were full, we came back to our hotel by Bajaj. After we arrived in the hotel we directly washed our faces and had a talk together. But some of us were painful and sleepy so we went to our bedroom. Our planning for the next day was same that was went to Natsepa beach. That day we were happy because we could go for a walk in Ambon and also in that place there were many good places. One of us was mechanical, so he checked all the engine of our Bajaj because the next day we will go around in Natsepa beach.

Second day, we got up at 5 a.m. we prepare and we took a shower. We prepare many thing for our trip in Natsepa beach and also we did not forget to have breakfast first. After we completed our things so we directly took on Bajaj and started our trip. From hotel we just needed forty minutes to arrive in Natsepa beach, because the distance from hotel just 18 km. And the last we arrived in Natsepa beach, the ticket in Natsepa just one thousand for every one. That was very cheap, and for parker we just pay Rp. 1.500,00. We directly swam together but we did not forget to wear swimming cloth.

 Natsepa beach located in Suli village, central Maluku, in that place was very crowded because of there were many visitors. Although liked that we just enjoyed that moment because thepanorama in that place was very beautiful. We played water in the sea. Before 3 p.m. the water in Natsepa beach was called “ Air meti “ or withdraw water. In Natsepa beach also could cure some diseases such as influenza, fever, irritation, etc. Many citizen in Ambon said that if we swam in the Natsepa sea more than an hour we will get a magic, that could cure our diseases. So that’s way we all together swam and made true that perception. After we swam until an hour, one of our friend said “ hey guys, my influenza was lost” we were amazing and we believe that in Natsepa there was a magic.

 Then we dried ourselves and we took a boat to went around in Natsepa sea. And the boat could be taken 10 people until 15 people. But we just rent the boat for us, after we went around that place. We took off from boat and looked for some souvenir. And we saw a little souvenir shop in Natsepa, we directly went to that place.  When we got in that shop, we were amazed because many souvenir that were cute, beautiful and unique. But our money was not enough to buy many things, so we just bough the best souvenir over there. Although we were little sad but we all say “ never mind guys, the main point we visited this place”. After we bough souvenir, we interested with special food in Natsepa. It was “ rujak Natsepa “ and we got closed and peeped the price.

 Oh, bravo, we were happy because the price just 5000. So we collect our money to buy “ rujak Natsepa” . We all enjoyed it together. And we all said “ Mantap” because the taste was really delicious and hot. After we were satisfied with “ rujak Natsepa “ we came back to the hotel with our Bajaj. After we arrived in the hotel, we prepared to check out and came back to Jakarta. We were happy because we could visited Ambon together and used our Bajaj. That’s all of our experiences in Ambon.