We went to Sepa Island, part of Thousand Island in Indonesia. It's located in North of Jakarta. There are several tour operators located in Jalan Lodan near Marina Ancol.
We learned we could make a reservation and put a 50% down payment to secure our spot. or we could also come on the day with no guarantee spot.
We choose the later ones. Originally, we wanted to go to Pulau Kotok. Since we have no spots for that, we decided to go to Sepa Island
The cost is about $80/ person, including trip and lunch. The boat would leave Marina at 8 and would arrive at about 9:30 am. The boat will pick us up at 2 pm.
We plan to swim around, do snorkeling around the island to see coral reef.
When we arrived at the island, there are some options to ride a boat for extra charges. About $20 to rent a boat to get to an atoll island and $30 to rent snorkeling equipment.
We only have swimming goggles... we decided to give a try. Geared with swimming goggle, swimming shoes (highly recommended as there are coral and sea urchins), we swam around the beach. I was hoping to find colorful corals but all looks brown, grey or black. I'm not sure if that's how it's suppose to be but it looks very unattractive to me. Besides, there are floating plastic bottle, plastic glasses that ruin the nature.
There are some "naughty" fish that keeps nibbling on our legs. The lunch is just OK. A local food presented pretty decent. There are tents to helps protects from the heat. Perhaps, the best local findings is a "Biawak"(small Komodo dragon) that was walking around "freely". They ran away when they saw us.
Is it worth $80/person for the trip? I thought it was just OK. I do wish they have a better beach.
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