touching the grass with coworkers

to see the our full experience in hiking kalitalang, please watch my vlog here!
KALITALANG VLOG!

idk who initiated the talk to HIKE, but we ended up doing it anyway. at first we were debating whether we went to kalitalang or deles indah, but after few considerations, we ended up went to kalitalang. we might be hiking gunung purba nglanggeran next, but who knows? (we did, i wrote this on may 2026, lol).

of course we went on monday (august 4th), our only free time. i actually had no expectations, because some of us are active in physical activities, some aren't (i might fell on the first category, because at that time i was active in running to catch my first 5k under 1hr. tho i ended up never join any running event due to schedule and whatever), so i'm just gonna go with their paces. but SPOILER ALERT, we managed to get to the last post, which is just 4km from the mount merapi's crater.

we actually start our day quite late because i was waiting for mba niken, and some of us are gathering on various different places. we started hiking around 9 am LOL, while everyone were goin down, we just start the hike. we had no 'pro' equipment, just mba niken's trekking pole and that's all. my protections were sunscreen, jehan's hat and jacket that i ended up not wearing because i was sweating like crazy.

happy me!

the view from the river
pov you're wedhus gembel

the view was amazing tho, it was so blue and mount merapi was so clear. the first and two post were actually the hardest and steepest, but the last two was ez. we filmed our checkpoint on the first post, still all bright and happy but then had a quick nap on the third post lol.

us on the first post

vs on the third post
there were actually many monkeys
around us

we encountered MANY monkeys during the hike, fortunately they didn't attack us or smth. we didn't time the hike, we just casually walked, took many photos for the gram (and the memories) and had fun, so we got to the top around 12 pm. at the end of the post we rested for around half an hour, chatting and snacking. sindi was actually having a full blown nap, idk how she did that tho.

then we SPRINT down the hill. mas imam was actually TRIPPED AND FELL during the sprint. i was behind all of them because i was with mba heni, and she wanted to take it slow, then joined by mas ginza who TOOK THE LONGEST TIME EVER to get down with the rope on the second and first post down. thank you mba ratri for documenting us three behind y'all, lol.

we were having fun, maybe we'll hike again? idk.

WE HIKED AGAIN.