Admiring the Nature at Ndoro Dongker House of Tea

Hai everyone!

I realized that it's been months and I haven't posted the third edition of Youth Peace Camp YMCA :( I will find a way and time to continue write that post, promise!

You have read my previous post about Valentine's day which turned to be Val-ashes day, right? The next day after Valentine's day, 15 February, me and my boyfriend supposed to have a little celebration. But what could we do? Ashes covered everything, we couldn't go anywhere. The next week, when ashes was decreased, Mas Dody's allergy was relapse. He got sick so we had to cancelled our plan. FINALLY after two weeks postponed, last Saturday (2/3/14) we could manage it! :D

We were heading from Jogja at 09:00 a.m, then we were stop by at Mas Dody's house and after that, my house. At about 11:00 a.m we went to Kemuning, Karanganyar to have our totally late Valentine celebration.

It was a sunny day, or I could say, overly sunny day. I felt my skin was sting because of the sun light. There was a traffic jam happen in Palur because of the fly over construction, and it makes my skin felt more sting. Ewh, it's hurt! I should have used glove :( DON'T EVER forget your glove, guys when you are riding motorcycle under the sun light unless you want a sting yet burned skin like mine.

Oh, I forget to mention that before we heading to Karanganyar, we stopped at Solo Square because Mas Dody would buy me a pair of shoes as a Valentine's gift. I know, it's too late and I said him to cancel but he won't, hihihi! Do you wanna see the pair?

Previously, I didn't choose that shoes, I chose a pair of simple black flat shoes. I changed my mind when I saw this pair of classic brown loafers and I thought, "Wow, I've been looking for these shoes!" It took me some minutes to decide, and finally I took these lovely loafers with me! They are sooo comfortable!

When we arrived at Ndoro Dongker, it was a bit crowded with families and couples who enjoying their lunch. We wanted to enjoy the view of tea plantation so we chose an outdoor desk with a cute big red umbrella upon us.

We ordered a pot of Chamomile Tea - Rp 20.000/pot, Chicken Curry - Rp 15.000/bowl and Tempe Mendoan (Indonesian food made from soy, layered with wet flour then fried with hot cooking oil) - Rp 10.000. Those all are basically ordinary food really, you can find it anywhere (except the tea, probably) in Indonesia. What makes them different are the surrounding, the nature; fresh air and greenish view. It was completed with music which played, most of the songs are evergreen songs that made us relax.

A set of Chamomile Tea (ignore that chili thing on a tiny green plate please, it's excluded!)

Our relaxing lunch

A cup of Chamomile tea. Hmmm~

This is Tempe Mendoan :D

Chicken Curry

I highly recommend this place for those who want to have a relax quality time with beloved ones. They don't provide wi-fi by the way, so have a good chit-chat without bothered by your phones while admiring the nature.

P.s: I don't mean to offend smokers, but it will be good if they hold their desire to smoke for a moment there. It is really a place where we can enjoy and admiring the nature, they supposed not to pollute the fresh air :( I feel annoyed because when I sipped my tea, a man behind me smoked like he didn't have another chance to smoke :(

While we have choices, why don't we choose to keep and save our nature? It will brings benefits for us and our next generation, anyway :)

Ndoro Dongker House of Tea

Afdeling Street Numb. 18, Kemuning

Ngargoyoso, Karanganyar, Central Java

(Thank you Lili for your kind advise :D)

Take care, God bless you!