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#SevenSummitIndonesia-Kerinci Mount 3805 asl (to be continued......)







This is the time that we flight to Jambi. Last year because i got flight promo ticket Citilink only 110K to Jambi from Jakarta for round trip, then in my mind i wanna going to some places that i never know. So i decided to go to Jambi in Sumatera Island. After that i opened trip in some forums like Kaskus and BPI to find somebody that can follow and join to my journey to climb Kerinci Mount.Honesty if i find hike mates, here we go, but if i can't find no problemo. Amazing i have 11 hike mates after some months looking for. They are Yudhi, Bayu, Idham, Feri, Dika , Fadly, Ziead, Junior, Ade Isnie, Rifky, and me. 10 strong man and 2 woman. First only me as woman who will climb Kerinci Mount with them but one week before the days, my mountaineer friend Ade Isnie asked me to join this trip. Dika and Fadly are from Palembang, and 10 others mountaineer from Jakarta.

The day is coming first day in March, we would go to Jambi, Ade Isnie used Sriwijaya Air lonely from Jakarta to Jambi but earlier than us, Idham used Garuda Airways because he is officer employee in Garuda so that he got free tickets i think..hmmm..makes us so envy, Fadly and Dika were going by travel car from Palembang to Jambi, and the others used Citilink. My mountaineer mates who used Citilink feeling that my ticket is  farther then their tickets. Yap they got normal ticket between 800K-1000K for round trip and me 10x cheaper than them. Sorry guys.

The flight would be landing in 11.00 but in that time we couldn't enter the flight, and surprised we were in wrong gate, C4 for flight to Surabaya, and our plane was C1 but we never heard some information, so we ran quickly and quickly to reach C1 gate, and the attendant said go quickly ran faster, and we were the last people who entered the plane. Feeling worst, and shy we were calm down and silent each other in our chair. One hour air journey from Jakarta in Jambi at 12.15 pm we arrived in Sultan Thaha Airport in Jambi. Welcome to Jambi City, in there Ade Isnie, Fadly, and Dika arrived earlier than us.  After meeting with the driver who would picked up us to Kayu Aro Village starting point to climb Kerinci Mount. 

Decided to get some lunch because we were heavy hungry, and looking for some drinks and foods for our meals along the hike, we went to Hypermart to buy what we needed for journey along 3 days 2 nights, spent 3 hours and half for shoping then here we go to Kayu Aro Village.....


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