Karang Bolong @ Lampung

rocks that are so beautiful makes everybody wanna climb it. yeah this small island provide us with beautiful panorama and exciting adventure. we need to paddle up boats to get to this island. Playing around in this small island take us to this karang bolong, we can see the open sea the blue water.

rocks surface showed us how nature carved into it. smooth and more character. I wonder if i can climb it, this small getaways may please your little adventure on this island that only small people live in this island.

we made our adventure here while others playing in the boats and try to fishing at the sea. this is the cave that we pass through it to the other side, small island that bring peace to people that coming here.

beach @ Lampung

white sands beach @ Lampung heading to open sea tempting to swim all days.

open water at the other site of the beach, there's only water as far we can see

Let's Roll

JNC ers prepared to go again, after fixing Bro Pedro's Bike...

Bro Kukuh and Bro Gerry discussing what to do when they meet a girls

Bikers ready to Jakarta...

Home Coming

Bikers prepare to move on...

restaurant that we want to recomended...lauzy services!

Bandung...next-->Jakarta

working together

everybody worying about pedro's bikes...that's what a friend are for

guess who...

my Black Z

road to Jakarta

Penyu in style

Pedro-trouble...fix by Nanang

Miss this time.

after ritual

worshiping the bike for the new ID

wondering about tomorrow, back to Jakarta

JNC before ritual

before ritual to get ID number, look at those sexy things...you should place your box behind your bikes bro...do not carrying it around like that.

cheerish face at pangandaran, we palying around before getting our ID, enjoying a peaceful moment at the beach.

bikes park after long hard ride to green canyon

Everest Nepal slashes cost of climbing Everest

KATHMANDU, May 1, 2008 (AFP) - Nepal has drastically cut the cost of climbing Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks to try and attract more mountaineers to the country, an official said Thursday.
"The government has approved the decision to cut the royalty fee for climbing Everest by 75 per cent during winter and summer seasons and 50 per cent during the autumn season," tourism official Krishna Prasad Gyawali told AFP.
Prices for the spring season, by far Everest's busiest due to a brief summiting window before monsoon rains, will remain the same.
But the number of people allowed on a 70,000-dollar- permit will be raised to 15 from 12, the official said.
"Prices for permits on the other 326 peaks over 5,500 metres (18,250 feet) that are open for climbing have been slashed on a similar basis," said Gyawali.
As well as the 8,848-metre (29,198-foot) Everest, Nepal has another seven of the world's 14 highest peaks. Mountaineering brings much needed hard currency into the impoverished nation sandwiched between India and China.
"To encourage mountaineering in unexplored and backward areas, the government also decided to allow mountaineering free of charge in the mid-west and far-west regions for the next five years," said Gyawali.
"Most of the time, people only climb the famous peaks -- Everest, Langtang and the Annapurnas -- while many other mountains with great potential are ignored. We want to end this trend," the official said.
This year's Everest spring season has seen the northern approach to the mountain through Chinese-controlled Tibet closed by Beijing.
Chinese authorities -- fearful of protests by pro-Tibet groups -- want to keep the mountain clear in early May while they try to get an Olympic torch to the world's highest point.
At China's bidding, Nepal has imposed strict new regulations on the southern approach to the mountain.
Last week, Nepal deported an American mountaineer who was found to be carrying a pro-Tibet banner at Everest base camp.
Nepal has enforced a media blackout on Everest coverage at base camp.
It has also deployed police and army personnel on the mountain to ensure that climbers are not above 6,500 metres (21,450 feet) while the Chinese make their summit bid between May 1 and 10.
The mountain has been summitted more than 3,000 times since it was first scaled in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
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Pangandaran National Park