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Getting up before six every single morning may not be a nice routine for everyone, but it is mandatory for us at Gauge! Zillion super hectic office hours have passed, thousands of news stories have been summarized, tons of newspapers have been tracked, and finally here’s the chance to refresh our mind. Gauge goes outing! Yippie yippie yeaaaaayy!
Places were proposed and discussed. We were all drooling and yes, we wanted to go to all those cool-but-not-too-far places. Night safari, indoor theme park, and rafting. Errrggghhh, wait, what? What? Rafting? More than half of us shouted “Yesss” to rafting. Rafting is simply in our blood!
We were hungry for challenging activities. Besides, a research listed rafting as one of the top 25 fat-burning workouts to get you in shape. Rafting down the river burns an amazing 300-350 calories per hour!!!! Well, we needed to burn more calories and put ourselves in more stunning shape. Hahahahaha well, to have the endurance and strength, too!
One key message: Keep fit and don’t go during the off-season, but if you’re one of those people who have slacked off a bit and don’t exercise much, you should go rafting.
Our choice fell on Cisadane River because it is located in Bogor and we need only one and a half hours to reach the site. So, on Saturday, we started off from the office at 11 a.m. and drove 1.5 hours to Gurmiyati Camp to spend the night there and go water rafting on Sunday morning. We arrived earlier because we had to work the weekend shift first.
The last few miles were really bumpy, but the camp looked nice, almost out of place in the middle of nowhere. At night, we played some silly sweaty games, singing, corn grilling, and went to bed at 3 a.m., forgetting that we were to go rafting at 8 in the morning. (-_-“)
Amazingly, woke up at 6:30, took a bath, had breakfast, and by 8 we were ready. Then they loaded us up into the back of pickup trucks like cattle and drove us about 15-20 minutes to the launching area. Gurmiyati Camp provided us with the proper rafting gear with international safety standard.
If you’re a diehard rafting fan and just can’t wait to get back onto that flowing, crisp, cool mountain river, Cisadane River is perhaps a good choice. You’ll be paddling down the river that gives you a view of beautiful mountain scenery and of course something we can hardly find in Jakarta, FRESH AIR!
The rafts were kinda small, and the rapids weren’t dangerous (still had a lot of fun), but that’s ok because it was our first time to go rafting, and we didn’t want to take on intense rapids just yet, weren’t really rowing too hard.
So, that’s Gauge happy story. We all believe that whoever is happy will make others happy too because happiness worth sharing…
Love seeing the happy faces!