The alarm clock was not necessary – at 4.30 am they were calling from the mosques of Jepara. I took a shower and big cup of coffee and walked some 200 m to the port gate, where in the solid pavilion they sell ferry ticket. The window is open at 5.30 or even earlier…. -One ticket economi, of course (I don’t want to sit in a/c!) for orang Polandija (a man from Poland). The one way ticket costs 76000 IDR. But at the next desk you have to pay also 25000 tourist tax. Nowadays there is also fast ferry – it costs 200000…. Then you can walk on the pier to the ship. Oho, this is not a new model! When I was boarding through the car deck it was completely packed up with cars, scooters and piles of different goods. Eventually I climbed to the upper deck where are the rows of seats for the passengers. It is hard to say it is clean area but the local people put on the floor the mats, cartoon or vven newspapers and sleep… No glass in the windows so you can enjoy the landscape – at the beginning colorful fishing boats docking nearby, later – only the grey sea. No sun today!
We departed 25 minutes before the schedule – because the ship was completely full – they said…
Do not trust the locals when they say it will be 4-hours journey. We were sailing 6 hours and on approach to the island we found ourselves in the wall of fogg, wind and heavy rain. I was waiting half an hour to disembark, but no chance for dry landing… I weared on me and the backpack my waterproof poncho, but the wind was too strong to protect me.
Now it is already the evening and I am drying my clothes in “Sama Sama guest house” Let’s hope that tomorrow the paradise island will show the other, nicer face 🙂
