Trip for Orphanage Visit in Singaraja with Awesome Waterfalls

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It was a Couchsurfing event that held every 3 months (i guess). We visit some orphanage in Bali just to share a lil bit of what we have (money, used clothes, books, foods, etc). And this time was an orphanage in Singaraja (North of Bali) at Kubu Tambahan Village called PAKISAN CHILDREN’S HOME (Taman Kanak Kanak Saiva Dharma). We left Kuta on Saturday (17th Dec’11) at around 11ish in the morning and got there at around 4ish in the afternoon. It took 5 hours because we stopped many times to eat and take a rest since it was a long ride and we went there by motorbike and it was raining.

This place could be reach through Sanur – Gianyar – Ubud – Kintamani – Singaraja. It’s not quite hard to find it since you just need to follow the big road. There are many things that can be seen on the way there and the view on the way was just nice . The road is good but just need to be a lil bit careful from Ubud to Kintamani since there are many small holes on the road. But generally all the way is fine. Only from the Kubu Tambahan Vilage to the Pakisan Orphanage is a lil bit hard since you need to go up and down the hill, but if you ask around I’m sure you will find it. (will give you direction later on).

That's how the area looks like nice no?

This orphanage is run by a lady (Ibu Didi) from Jakarta and a guy who always help her who lives near by the orphanage (Pak Harun). There are 18 kids who are mostly from a broken family who need to be taken care of. The age range is from 4 to 17 years old.  They live in a simple house with a small hall where they use it as a classroom for the Kindegarten ones. The other ones go to public school (Kindegarten – Senior High School). I thought that they go to school for free, but apparently not. There is no regular donation for the orphanage. They only get donations from the big hearted people who would share. Not even the rich people who live on the area. They don’t really care. Those kids NEED HELP!

They are smart and they need help!!!

Ibu Didi is very nice to provide us a place to stay, dinner, breakfast and lunch for the next day. There are 36 Couchsurfers who went there. We slept on the open air hall which is enough to accommodate all of us. We did yoga in the morning and then did health check up for the kids since there are 2 CSers who are doctors. Some kids from the orphanage did performances for us and we did spontanious play for them too. I’m very happy to see the smiles of the kids. We made it to collect around 7 millions IDR to be donated to the orphanage and glad that we could help them even a lil bit of what we have. But the most important thing is to be with them. I am very looking forward to go there again.

Dinner together

We left the orphanage at around 2pm and we went to a waterfall near by called Sekumpul Waterfall. It took around 20 minutes to get there. There are 7 points of waterfalls with fishing pond on the way down. We need to pay Rp. 2000 for the entrance fee which is nothing compare with what we get. We need to go around 350 stairs down and cross the river to reach the waterfall. The view… is so damn AMAZING! It looks like in Pandora… The avatar world. That was the best waterfall that I ever seen or went or jumped into. A very worthy to visit. I’m sure I will go there again even I need to drive 4 hours by motorbike in the rain.

Looks like in Pandora, doen't it? and we swam down there

We took the same way back and it was raining a lil bit. It was already dark when we reach the border between Singaraja and Kintamani. We drove very slow since it’s foggy and cloudy. Was very cold which I had to wear socks and I wished I had a winter jacket to wear . Well anyway… this trip was just great.

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