…Ngopi dulu yuk…

Oleh-oleh dari perjalanan bersama teman-teman dari Indonesia… Another hiking… Dimulai dari rumah Mirah dan berakhir di Far East (chinese restaurant, laperrrr…!!)

Perjalanan dimulai jam 8 pagi, naik ferry, dilanjutkan dengan bis sampai ke kaki bukit (atau gunung? atau batu raksasa?).

Dua jam setengah kita sampai di puncak.  Keluarin bekal nasi goreng.. Makan rame-rame.. Nikmaaattt…!!

Berikut adalah informasi tentang Preikestolen, dikutip dari wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prekestolen) Cuma foto-fotonya saya ganti dengan foto-foto yang saya ambil sendiri *ehm, bangga*

Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known by the English translations of Preacher’s Pulpit or Pulpit Rock, and by the old local name Hyvlatonnå, is a massive cliff 604 metres above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25 metres, square and almost flat, and is a famous tourist attraction in Norway.

In 2006 approximately 90,000 people took the 6-km hike to Preikestolen in the four summer months making it one of the most visited natural tourist attractions in Norway.

There is trail from the Pulpit Rock lodge through different mountain landscapes. A trip to Preikestolen from the closest car park and Norwegian Mountain Touring Associations-staffed refuge Prekestolhytta takes about 3-4 hours for a round trip hike. The parking facility and hut are about 1 hours from Stavanger city by ferry and car.

The walk to Preikestolen is partly very steep. The path starts at the Preikestolhytta Youth Hostel at a height of approximately 270 metres, and climbs to 604 metres. The trip is estimated to 2 hours, but that is with children and/or many pauses. It can be completed in 1 hour by experienced hikers. Even though the height difference is only 330 metres, and on the map the trip is only 3.8km (each way), the actual hike is much more as the path goes up and down various ridges.

A granite sculpture of the cliff is erected in Forsand’s Danish twinning, Langeskov.

More photos: http://www.flickr.com/people/davidibrahim

Banyak tulisan-tulisan yang aku tulis ketika aku berada dalam situasi "mengerti" tentang sesuatu, "get the point", atau paling nggak ya "merasa mendapatkan pengertian" tentang sesuatu, terlepas dari benar salahnya. Tulisan yang satu ini lain sendiri, karena aku buat di saat aku kehilangan definisi tentang sesuatu.

Seperti halnya ketika aku mengetik sesuatu di MS Word, yang belum sempat di-save, lalu tanpa sengaja aku menekan tombol reset. Layar blank. Sistem restart. Tulisanku hilang, menguap entah ke mana. *untungnya sekarang ada fungsi autosave di MS Word*

Hal yang sama terjadi di dalam pemahamanku terhadap relationship, tepatnya antara cowok dan cewek. Semua definisi seakan terhapus. Semua pemahaman rasanya hilang. Aku nggak mengira hal yang seperti begini bisa terjadi di sisi cowok juga. Kalo cewek sih gak aneh lah ya, kan namanya juga mahluk halus yang perasa.

Anyway… Reset! Bukannya itu artinya sama juga dengan memulai set yang baru? Tapi bagaimana memulainya?

Weekend kemarin, tanggal 1-3 Juni, aku ikut beberapa kawan menikmati akhir pekan di cabin. Sebuah rumah kecil yang sederhana, berdinding kayu, tidak ada pasokan listrik, terletak di luar kota, dan menyatu dengan alam. Pada hari Sabtu, kami berjalan ke salah satu bukit yang sebagian tertutupi salju. Pengalaman pertamaku.

Ada beberapa insight yang terlintas ketika aku melewati rintangan-rintangan di perjalanan. Aku mau berbagi, sambil tentunya sedikit pamer foto-foto. *Foto yang kamu lihat, langsung dari kamera aku lhoo…* ^^

(click on images to enlarge)

Begin the journey enthusiasticly

Antusiasme ternyata sangat mempengaruhi persistensi aku dalam mencapai tujuan. Selain itu, antusiasme kawan-kawan di dalam tim pun sangat berpengaruh bagi pergerakan tim ini dalam mencapai tujuan.

To reach your goal, you need the "right people" together with you.

They are experienced hikers. They share the same desire about nature. They have the same goal, i.e. to reach the top. They support each other during the journey. And they celebrate the victory together.

The most difficult situation may not always be found close to the top.

This is something new to me. It is ashame that people fail just because they quit too early. Dalam beberapa hal, rintangan terberat malahan terletak di awal atau pertengahan dari suatu perjuangan. Maka pastikan Anda tidak menyerah terlalu awal.

It is helpful to have a guide

This was a steep hill. Maybe 40 or 45 degrees. For a person who never walked on the snow, it was difficult to make the right steps. I thought it was impossible. So what I did was stepping into each footprints that were by left someone in front of me. In Christian faith, Jesus walked in front of us. He already made the footprints for us. He is our guide.

When you reach the top, all pain is gone!

So it is helpful if you could always visualize "yourself on the top" during the journey. Jangan terkungkung oleh apa yang Anda rasakan selama menjalani proses. Ada sesuatu yang lebih besar menunggu di balik semua penderitaan dan pengorbanan Anda.

It is so joyful when I know that I am going back "home"

Doesn’t it sound like our lives? We will go "home" someday when we die. I think if people could manage this attitude, they would live their lives joyfully.

Perjalanan yang sangat menyenangkan dan penuh inspirasi. I almost missed that trip because of a struggle in my relationship. But yet, it inspired me to keep on moving even in the most difficult situation. This could be one last insight: Never let your moods or feelings control your life! You must control them instead.

For more pictures, please visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidibrahim (add me in your contact if you like)