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Karimunjawa

Published: 28.07.2018

The way to the island of Karimunjawa was not easy. First, we took a small night bus from Yogya to Jepara, but we couldn't sleep because of the way it was driven. Incredibly, we arrived at the harbor around 3:30 in the morning without any accidents. The place was deserted, everything was dark. The few people who were also there at this early hour either couldn't speak English or didn't know how to proceed from here. There was no information about when and how to get tickets for the boat to the island. Boats only go to the island once a day, and sometimes not at all. Then we read somewhere that it was completely sold out, and the next one would only leave in 3 days. Great. So, there was no chance of sleeping until the ticket counter opened because we couldn't afford to miss our chance of getting on that stupid boat. Somehow, we managed to be the first "white" people to get a ticket among the crowd - we were really relieved. Exhausted but relieved.

Finally at the pier for the boat...


View from our accommodation of the huge harbor in Karimun :D

Exploring the island...

Cristal clear seawater everywhere...

This beautiful little dream island consists of numerous mangrove forests at the foot of the mountains.

There are also monitor lizards here, but they are small...

'Terrace' of our accommodation...

...great for breakfast...

Everything here on the island can only be reached by bike :)
(Dear moms and dads, there are no helmets available on the island, sorry)



Fresh coconut on the beach is a must.

There is really nothing happening here... the few 'white' people you see on the island are always the same...

Patrick at our regular bar :D


We already went snorkeling for a day. A German guy who lives here took us and two other girls on a boat for snorkeling. While putting on his water shoes, the German suddenly screamed and pulled out a !!!!scorpion!!!! around 7cm long from his shoe. He was stung multiple times, but besides the pain, he was fine.

With rougher waves, we went out to the small uninhabited islands early in the morning.


We had lunch here on a small private island and devoured the lunch boxes. The island was bought for !WARNING! 1000€ a few years ago. Then it was equipped with dreamy bungalows and rented out to a few tourists for a short time. Now these fully equipped and beautiful bungalows are empty because the owner no longer wants to do it. Crazy. Besides the island caretaker who kindly let us tie up, no one lives here.

The water here is perfect for snorkeling, crystal clear and extremely warm. There is an incredible variety of corals and fish here. There are only very few sharks here, and if there are any, they are very small, so no worries. Unfortunately, we didn't see any.

Another small uninhabited lonely island. Except for the island caretaker/coffee maker/fisherman, nobody was here. It took us 15 minutes to walk around the whole island...


Answer (2)

Elfi
Wow, denke so stellt man sich das Paradies vor! Ist ja toll und offensichtlich abenteuerlich!😀Passt auf euch auf-und immer schön die Schuhe kontrollieren vor dem Anziehen!!!!😘❣️❤️

Verena
Ja ist echt ein kleines Paradies 😄 keine Sorge, der wohnt in den Bergen, wir am Wasser. Außerdem kann sich im flip-flop kein Skorpion verstecken, und das sind moment die einzigen Schuhe 😀