Misguided Girls

              If you want to visit a place, the important knowledge that you need is the direction.If you do not know the direction to the place, you may cancel your travel there. I remember when I wanted to visit a beach with my best friends. One of three of them said that she knew the direction, but actually she does not knew where we are. Direction is the important knowledge when you want to go to some places, but its seems not really important for my friend and I because sometimes we need to take a new way to go to a new place.

I was in Denpasar at that time. I visited my cousin. She is my cousin and one of my best friend. Her name is Ulan. In the same time, I called my others best friends. They are Ari and Anik. We met at Ulan’s lodging house. We made a promise to visit Dream Land Beach. Ari said that she knew the direction to the place. She made us believe her because she said that she had ever gone to the place twice.

She rode her motorbike while Ulan sat on the back. I followed them with Anik sitting on the back. We did not have any feeling that she actually did not know the way. We went through a small road with empty area on the left and right side of the road. At that time the weather was hot and we did not arrive yet. I had a strange feeling with this situation and I asked Ari.

“ Do you really know the direction to Dreamland?” I asked  her when my motorbike and hers were in a row.

“ Yes. I did.” She was very confident to say that she knew the way.

Because of her confidence I felt a bit calm. After five minutes from I asked her the direction, she slowed down her motorbike speed. We were in a row again. She said that actually she did not know the direction. She just followed the taxi which was driven in front of us. We were very shocked. Anik was afraid and she told us to go back because she did not want to be a lost person and could not meet her parents again. She was very hyperbolic person. At that time she was panic. We discussed about this in the side road. We would go back and do nothing or we continued the travel and found a new place to visit. When we discussed, some foreigners came from the opposite way. Foreigners came to Bali to visit some beautiful places. If they came from our opposite way, it meant that there was a beautiful place there. We ended our discussion with the conclusion and chose to continued our travel.

Fifteen minutes later, we found some restaurants and villas. We were very happy when we arrived at the end of the road. We found a place which was called Balangan Beach. This beach was not so famous as Kuta Beach, Dreamland, Jimbaran, or other else, but the view in that place was not too bad. We walked down to the beach and shocked by the situation. Did we still in Bali? The people in that place were all foreigners except the seller. We were the only domestic visitors there. To remember that place and our lost direction journey; we took some pictures in that place. We were having fun there, enjoying the situation, taking a lot of pictures, and finding a new place to visit when we met again in Denpasar.

Misguided is not very big thing to worry about, sometimes you need to be misguided to make your journey is more fun. Do not forget to ask a native person if you really lost the direction. My best friends and I lost the direction but we know a beautiful place. Those picture that we took there are our souvenirs to make us remember that we have ever gone to that place. That was our great lost.