Wisata Bahari Lomongan

For my birthday weekend, a group of friends and I drove about 1.5 hours northwest of Surabaya to a little beachside amusement park and resort.  This amusement park isn’t what you would think of as a typical one, with giant rides, and thousands of people.  It had a couple rides, ones that were small enough to fit into my backyard (no joke) and lots of different types of amusement activities.  They had a haunted hospital (with dead baby in crib section) they had a water park area, where you walk through a maze and people in a control tower control water guns hidden all over the path. 

Going tribal

There was a “cat house” which consisted of a zoo-like walkabout of domesticated house cats.  If you were a prize winning cat, you were giving a room with aircon.  They had motorbikes to ride (for people under 50kg) and a whole carnival section for children 7-12.  There was a pool and some waterslides, a restaurant out on a pier, some fake penguins and real turtles, kayaking, a beach area and playground.  They also had a wild west section, complete with arcade shooter game, bull riding, novelty photos on a horse with Indians and bow and arrow shooting.  I believe they also had horse-drawn carriages, as we saw a stable of horses.

The band.

We watched a 3-D movie about a kid going to school, and shot some platic balls out of a giant gun to hit targets.  We went to the amphitheater, and they got me on stage singing one of our favorite Indonesian songs.  Luckily, there were 12 people in the audience, us being 8 of them.  There was even an “exotic albino” section of different albino animals from squirrels to peacocks, porcupines and snakes.

Riding the bench into the zoo

There was also a cave, mineral museum, and zoo which we say the day before.  The zoo was depressing, but still fun to walk around, and see some animals, and the cave was extremely hot, had too many colored lights around and music blaring.  Peaceful nature at its best. 

Me and Kevin performing to the sold out theater, singing Indonesian songs to which we only know 1/3 the words...

The resort we stayed at was really nice, and right on the ocean.  We got to sit out and watch the sunset, and eat breakfast overlooking the vast blue.  We got an 8 person dorm room with bunkbeds, and at night we sang karaoke with the hotel band (again I was up on stage) and had a great time.  It was a quick weekend, but very fun and was a great way to spend the big 2 5.

I have enjoyed all the traveling I have been doing, and seeing different things all around east Java.