a quick getaway slash work.

i had an event at kampung sampireun, garut last week. i go there for work as i have to prepare the meeting for HP (hewlett-packard is one of my company's client) partners. as much as it is work, i enjoyed it a lot. The place is seriously FAR away, it was like 4 and a half hours from Jakarta. if you go there by bus, with a bunch of corporate staff and some of them are directors, you can't enjoyed the ride. i was so sleepy, but i can't sleep because yea it would look unprofessional, isn't it?
But after those long hours trip, the view of kampung sampireun was totally worth it. villas surrounding a lake, with a fish pond on the side and a small waterfall and a bamboo forest. added some sundanesse music and you totally got the atmosphere. you can go to places in kampung sampireun with a small boat or sampan, like from villa to villa, or just to go to the restaurant in the area. you can paddle it yourself, but if you can't there are a bunch of hotel staff ready to paddle it for you.

Here are some pictures :

a view from my villa's terrace

This picture is taken from google, i can't took a good picture at night.
but it pretty much look like this.

you see, i've tried to paddle it with one of my colleagues and i ended up almost fall from the boat and splattered with water from the sprinkler. i ended up yell for help and thank god one of the hotel staff is nearby, and running to help (while laughing off course). i even shove my paddle to him, because my boat is going to all direction. it was seriously embarrassing.
the food tasted great, all Indonesian delicacies you can ask for. the unique thing that kampung sampireun offers are in the morning and night, the caterer staff paddling around the lake and offer desserts or snacks. like at night they offer sekoteng, for those who didn't know what that is, it's kinda like a ginger ale but with fruit, peanut, bread crumbs, and all sort of things. and in the morning they offering serabi and like what Anthony Bourdain once said, it was sort of like Indonesian Pancake. and it was delicious, afterall i ate it in the cold morning, so it probably tasted better.
The work i did wasn't too hard, but i just tired of keep on walking from here and there, because i won't take the boat, i have to walk by foot, and in the end, for me to go from the meeting room to my room, i have to circle half of the area. now it is sick if you have to go back and forth like ten times.
but all in all, i really had a great experience. because kampung sampireun is pretty much expensive, so i kinda have an advantage because i got to stayed there for free. even better the concierge of the hotel gave me and my colleagues souvenirs because we held an event there. free gifts? hell yeah! *big grin


Regards,
Rani