Another trip to Indonesia at Carocok Painan Beach

Painan Caracok beach is one of the prime tourist locations in West Sumatra. The beach is located in the South Coastal District, West Sumatra, about 75 kilometers from the city of Padang. From Minangkabau International Airport, 2.5 hours spent across the western coastal plains of Sumatra.

From the western part of town Painan, traveler can see the Welcome gate at Carocok Beach to welcomes visitors. Approximately one kilometer of the shoreline has been waiting for the gates. Blue beach water so calm and clear and rich coral reefs and fish in it. Brownish white sand.

Stepping on the beach, visitors have to pay a ticket for Rp 3,000. Row of souvenir sellers are waiting around the coast. Cultural and culinary variety of white sandy beaches make it a choice for the right to relax. "There is always flax every weekend," said Eri (40 years), manager of the water on the island Cingkuak game.

Not just relax on the beach Carocok. Visitors can come to the Island Railway or Cingkuak Island. The two islands are faced with Carocok Island. Small waves breaking reef stretches so thick in Island Railway. At some point, gazebo for rest and could be a place to capture the beauty of the beach.

Cingkuak island looks blue and clean  in the distance. There is existed white sand beach. Clump of palm trees increasingly challenging to come there. Cingkuak Island can be enjoyed by residents that rented outboard boats for Rp20 thousand, and visitors could soon sail from the dock to the white sand Carocok beach.

Cingkuak island has an area of ​​about 5 acres. Various games are available, such as Banana Boat and Jetsky. Also cost around Rp 20 thousand to use Banana Boat, water sport for people who want to stimulate the heart. Or jet sky with a capacity of 100 thousand two people can be driven for 15 minutes at the beach.

There are a lot of gazebo to spend the night, but it also another thing like visitors can camp too by simply hire equipment with 100 thousand-200 thousand. In the evening a small gurgling waves feels romantic.

Cingkuak name comes from the animal ape black. Residents believe the monkey was just there on the island. But it is now only a monkey story hereditary. Island Cingkuak save history. The remains of a Portuguese fort building looks frail and is frail. There is no old graveyard nameless been fenced. His tombstone reads 1911.

After satisfied travel around Cingkuak island. Outboard boats are available to take visitors back to the dock Carocok Beach. Beach picture can be taken from a height. There is a hill that can be reached using a vehicle with a height of 200 meters above sea level.

Stretch of the hills with meadows, beaches Carocok looks blue. Waving of palm trees around the beach. His name Langkisau Hill. City landscape Painan clearly visible from this hill. Fatigue is gone, especially at dusk. If lucky, because not cloudy, Langkisau hill feast for the eyes of the red sky by the sun to  Cingkuak Island.

Langkisau hill also exotic for lovers of photography. For lovers of paragliding,  Langkisau hill also challenging. This hill is often used as a starting point for those who want to fly across a stretch of beach to land on the beach Salido.