This October is a road trip month… with a motorbike! My travel mate and me travelled for more or less a month from Yogyakarta, Central Java to Labuhan Bajo, Flores. We are using scooter 🙂 I tell you what, yes it is indeed a LONG journey, but the road from Yogyakarta until Labuhan Bajo is amazingly nice! We only drove around 6-7 hours per day and avoided driving during the night. Don’t battle with an enemy that you can’t even see, right?
I will share random road (and a little bit of scenery around it) pictures of my road trip. Most of the pictures I shot where as a passenger or we made a stop if it was a really nice spot not to be missed.
It is around 1,300 km between Yogyakarta and Labuhan Bajo. It also involved 1 hour on a ferry from Java to Bali, 4-5 hour ferry from Bali to Lombok, a 2 hour ferry from Lombok to Sumbawa Barat and finally a 6-7 hours from Sape (Sumbawa) to Labuhan Bajo (Flores).
Some people that we met on the street basically gave us two different responses when we told them about our travels; either “that is so cool!” or “why are you guys torturing yourself by travelling with a motorbike?”. As for me, this is not a way of trying to be ‘cool’ and we did not consider it as ‘torture.’ We did it simply because we wanted to experience it. We wanted to know how it feels! You know what, it feels so good and exciting!
Hey monkey! Fancy for a road trip?
School zone in Sumbawa Besar
Some part of  Sumbawa island is very dry!Â
The view of our journey from Wawo to Sape
Labuhan Bajo during the day
Poto Tano port in Sumbawa Barat
Enter Ferry to Lombok from Bali
Galungan night in Seminyak, Bali
My scooter made it to Flores!
my response is “that is so cool!”
You should do it someday 🙂
i’ll do it kak 🙂
Aw, I love the paddy field!
I love it too 🙂 Btw that is not only paddy field, the dark green area is red onions.
Wow,keren tuh, rasanya santai banget ya kalo bisa menikmati sambil scooter-an. Tiap jengkal pemandangan nggak ada yang terlewatkan. Amazing deh, salam buat scooternya :D. Btw,salam kenal yak
Hi Ainun,
Terima kasih sudah mampir. Salam kenal juga 🙂
Iya, seru banget.. Kemana-mana terserah kita. Hihi..
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Firsta,, wow kmu roadtrip naik motor dari jogja sampai ke flores?? pasti bakal capek tp klo diliat foto2nya, seru n bagus banget ..
mantap bgt km sis. 😉
Hi Rakha,
Iya.. Tapi kita motorannya santai kok 🙂 Jadi ga kerasa capek sama sekali. Per hari palingan cuma motoran 5-6 jam maksimal.
Thanks for visiting my blog bro!