Pelabuhanratu Warnings Or Dangers

Danger still lurks within the region's of rivers flowing into sea. River mouth is very dangerous on an outgoing tide. And king tides always present a problem, as do rips. During storms the water runs thick with sediment. You can't see to take steps to ... People should be especially cautious of rips along rock walls, and where the river had layed down its rocks ... There are numberless reports of people sucked away in a river mouth!

Don't worry, there are places enough to raft the river in West Java (Citarik River Rafting), see our VT member >>>

Ukirsari's Must See

Nothing to be alarmed about though, enjoying the magnificent sunset at Karang Hawu it could be possible some locals invite you to their home. That's regular custom too, only this time you have to pay for your house-visit!

It's a well-known fact that the beautiful region of Karang Hawu houses the "sundals" (women of pleasure/prostitutes). Mostly business-men are driven to this place to have some fun and, it is said the taxe-drivers get their fee by joining their client and have fun, too, for free ... so you know for now.

Looking for the Batu Karut spot we walked along Indian Ocean's shore. An Australian couple joined and sudden we stood in front of a kali, a small browny river. Although the water runned quite fast we thought "a piece of cake" to cross ...

A Javanese guy cleaning his kebo/water-buffalo started to scream and quickly walked over to us. He helped us to cross the kali, and showed with his stick how deep and, dangerous (!) this small river could be ...

To "channelize" its water, the river improves its rate of flow to the sea. It took the river a very short time to silt its bed back to critical levels a human can be drowned. In some circumstances the river may actually cut its bed deeper and deeper. Not mentioned the sudden huge waves throwing themselves ashore.

Reason enough to look seriously at the river-mouth ...