Guidebooks like to tell you where to go and how to get there. Travel snobs love to tell you how wonderful the place was so many years ago, before the tourists. The chip ignore both and do their own thing.
Read travel forums and you would probably not of interest to visit Java; so depressing it may seem cold .html. Indeed, it can be difficult to reconcile the Java we see on a daily basis and Java that arose before the eyes of some guy who had a long beard back in the 19 e century. Alfred Wallace, the famous botanist, said Java was "... the most beautiful tropical island in the world."
Deforestation and construction of the last decades have made it less expansive with his praise, but that beauty, that silence can be found with a little effort. And one of the best ways to get up close and personal to Wallace Java can recognize is neither boards nor guides, but by chopping!
The Hash House Harriers, to give them their full title, started in Kuala Lumpur in 1920 and have since developed into a notorious multinational chaotic organization for its ability to get anything right all the time. But its shareholder-runners and walkers-swear by it, because they know no matter where they turn in the world, chances are high that a hash will not be too far.
Hashing is basically cross country and is to follow a trail left by the organizers of the race in the campaign. There are some other complications such as check-backs, etc., but, in essence, is the Hash. After everyone finished the track in whatever condition they may be, they gather in a circle, drinking beer, call each other by their often double meaning nicknames and basically any abuse the world. Oh, and drink more beer.
There are several Hashes in Jakarta meeting on different days of the week and there are a few hardy souls who join every time. One of the most popular is the Thank God It Saturday Hash (TGIS), which takes place every second Saturday of the month, and recently celebrated their 25 e birthday in the shadow of Krakatau in Sunda Strait.
With the promise of beach time, run time and time of beer, dozens of TGIS 'best headed west wet miserable Saturday and complete hash equipment to celebrate. It was my first 'run' for a few years and there were many new faces among the most familiar and almost always, they had similar stories of Hashes elsewhere.
This is the Hash. A kind of giant, but in disorder, the brotherhood of like-minded souls who do not know each other, but probably know the same people somewhere down the line; they were facebooking sweat long before a college kid thought it would be great for us wheezing connect remotely.
I remember another time I tried to maneuver me on a slippery slope when this guy told me how he had known my brother on the Hanoi Hash in the early 1990s!
Hashing is very much a business oriented toward people who handles his own. In recent cases of mourning, they pulled together to raise money for the relatives left behind because that's what families do, and if nothing else the Hash is a giant family.
Fundraising plays an important role in the Hash with Red Dress Run, an important event in the calendar hash. The last took place in November and streets of South Jakarta were treated to the sight may unedifying of adult men and women dressed in red shouting "On!" While the rest of the city looked with astonishment . More Rp.10 million was raised that day.
and the anniversary run TGIS? the promotional literature had Krakatau explosion and Hashers approaches the line arrived on the crest of a tsunami, but that never happened. Hashers were invited to bring their sunscreen, but this was not necessary. the incessant drizzle clouded the view of the sea, but does ever was will deter the faithful of their race and they are defined in the fields of rice and hit the slopes to the finish line, slipping and sliding along the way.
in short, it was . perfect hash conditions in the rain and mud there is nowhere to hide and Hashers, roughing it's part of the fun; a return runner in a clean shirt and wear nice clean sneakers is treated with suspicion and is liable to a penalty of fierce bedraggled masses.
I had to head home early, so after a last necking cold beer pouring I made my escape. A fine rain stayed while on the horizon, the clouds had cleared enough to allow Krakatau to put in an appearance. The waves breaking on the beach were sometimes stifled by the strong cries and laughs of the circle that was just beginning.
The next morning would see another run for the faithful, but for now, it was time for beer and they had definitely taken a nice place for her.
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TGIS Hash House Harriers is a mixed adult Hash and runs every 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month
Men: Rp.150,000
Women Rp.100,000
passages usually begin 16 hours. Register by returning to the execution site.
https://sites.google.com/site/tgish3