Umang Island, The Tropical Sensation

When Umang Island is on your sight, it's as if all your fatigue are gone. This green island with spreading white sand and clean blue sea, completed with clear sky makes it even more beautiful. The 4 hour trip from Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta, is worth it.

Umang Island is a part of Banten province, and you can reach this island by boat just for 5 minutes from a small town called Sumur. You can also use transportation provided by Umang island management. It's a motorized boat for 25 people, standing by 24 hours.

When you arrive on the island, first thing you will have is a warm greet and a wet and cold towel with diligent aroma. That towel is indeed effective to sweep away the hot weather you feel outside your body. While for the inside you may choose a tropical fruit juice, like guava or pineapple juice.

Umang island is only 5 hectares wide. Its full of green trees and grasses although as you might notice that plants don't usually grow when the soil is filled with salt water. You can walk around the island only for 15 minutes and you'll reach the point where you start.

If you think it's not enough and you still want some fun, then try the jet ski, banana boat, and the speed boat. The sea is calm and easy. Enjoy the nature and be relaxed.

Not far from Umang island there's Oar island. It's only five minutes from Umang using a boat. Its sight is really splendid. Lots of photographers enjoying sunset here.

Now here's for you to remember: it is not advised to go direct to Umang island because you will have to use a shuttle bus provided by Umang island management and it will cost you IDR 250,000 each. You can actually go there without a reservation by taking an AKAP bus that travels from Kalideres to Labuan for IDR 25,000 and continue by taking a Labuan to Sumur bus for only IDR 15,000.