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Caption: INDONESIA SUMBA 2 #hiddengems of
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Caption: 1 • Watuparunu beach 2 Marosi beach • So here are 2 #hiddengems of Sumba Island, Indonesia. This time Steller challenges us to share #hiddengems. Apa kabar? (How are you?) Why did I classify these beaches as #hiddengems? Come to find the answer in my story 😉
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Caption: #1 Watuparunu
Beach
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Caption: FAR & tranquality These days Sumba is getting more popular, but people are rarely come to this beach.
It’s far from the Waingapu,
the city of East Sumba. It’s around 150 km from Waingapu and it takes 3.5 hours to visit Watuparunu Beach.
But if we look for beautiful beach and moreover
the tranquality,
Watuparunu is one of
the best choice in Sumba.
Watu means stone and
Parunu means walking while stooping low.
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Caption: There is a hollow stone that becomes a mark of this beach.
People must walking while stooping low to enter the hollow stone. For locals it represents the respect or honor to the nature.
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Caption: White cliffs are also a mark of Watuparunu Beach. As if God crafted these white cliffs beautifully and put it at the edge of Indian Ocean.
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Caption: I was dissapointed because in 2018 I only had 30 minutes to explore this beach. In fact this beach is very beautiful and it’s famous for sunset. Definitely I will come back to this beach to wait for the sunset while enjoying the tranquality.
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Caption: There is no public transportation to come to this beach.
It’s a little bit far from the Village. No restaurants. No light at night.
But people still suggest to camp at the beach to wait for the sunset and also the sunrise in this beach.
Picture of Pantai Watuparunu
Caption: Indian Ocean Watuparunu
Beach 1• Marosi
Beach 2• Now let’s leave East Sumba, move to West Sumba, visit the 2nd hidden gems: the Marosi Beach
Picture of Pantai Marosi
Caption: Marosi
Beach #2
Picture of Pantai Marosi
Caption: Buffalo ON the beach West Sumba basically is more popular
than East Sumba.
There are some beautiful beaches
in the edge of Indian Ocean in West Sumba
including Marosi & Nihiwatu Beach.
But for me, the Marosi Beach is special,
unique.
Contrast with the Nihiwatu Beach
that is known with the luxury resort where
David Beckham & fam stayed,
the Marosi Beach is a “resort” for buffalos 😉.
It’s a very natural beach
with authentic life of locals.
Besides of that this beach is also popular
as surfing spot but only for certain months.
Excluding surfing season this beach is very peaceful
just like when I visited it in July.
Video of Pantai Marosi
Picture of Pantai Marosi
Caption: This beach is also far from the city,
it’s around 40 km from Waikabubak the nearest
small city or 70 km from Tambolaka the center city of Southwest Sumba.
No public transportation, far from the Village,
No restaurant except local coconut seller.
Video of Pantai Marosi
Picture of Pantai Marosi
Picture of Pantai Marosi
Caption: This beach is also nice for selfie & wefie, just like I did for my friends
Picture of Pantai Marosi
Picture of Pantai Marosi
Caption: Unfortunately my camera was out of battery in this beach. Then I also lost so many photos of Marosi in my IPhone.
So I can’t share in detail about
this beautiful beach 🙏
Picture of Pantai Marosi
Caption: Hopefully you enjoy to read it.
Terima kasih (thanks) for read it. I am exciting to read another #hiddengems stories.
Come to share it in Steller guys 😉 Photos & videos by Sunu fam.
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