In this post I will share an exciting experience when I visited a river located at the foot of a mountain, a distant river required me to take a fairly tiring journey, but happiness and satisfaction can be felt when I arrived there, coincidentally there were two small children who became my friends on this trip, how exciting was it.? This is what we will discuss now.
This is a trip that I have planned for several days ago, namely a trip to the river to swim and refresh my body, but the plan always fails due to weather factors, rain is not the right time to visit the river, especially if the river is at the foot of the mountain, the most worrying thing is flooding. Coincidentally today the weather in my village is quite bright, so I immediately rushed to invite some of my friends to join this trip, but all my friends refused because they were busy with their respective jobs, it occurred to me to do this trip alone, but swimming alone in the river is not fun, but coincidentally at that time there were two small children playing in front of my house, so I tried to invite them, hearing the invitation they immediately agreed without thinking, but before that I first told them to ask permission from their respective parents, and after everything was finished we immediately continued this trip right at 3 pm
Before doing this trip we also did not forget to buy some supplies in the form of food and drinks, because this trip entered the forest area, so there were no stalls at all there. The last two days it rained very heavily in my area, making the road we passed very muddy and slippery, fortunately the motorbike we used was a motorbike that had been modified for uphill tracks and slippery roads. About 2 hours of travel we finally arrived at the river.
Arriving at the river, we immediately chose a suitable place to rest while enjoying the supplies we had bought,coincidentally at that time the two little kids invited me to rest on the other side of the river, for some reason they invited me to the other side of the river, maybe they couldn't wait to swim or play in the water Lol
However, to be able to cross the river, we had to walk about 100 meters downstream, because there was a shallow area there so that the two small children could cross the river easily.
No need to worry because the two little ones are used to this kind of environment, I just need to look after them if something unwanted happens. In addition to the weather being very supportive, the water in the river is also very good, the water flow is quite slow with very clear water conditions, just looking at it makes my eyes fresh
Before swimming, we chose to rest first, and we also ate the supplies we had bought at the beginning of the trip, everything tasted quite delicious. I don't know how many times I have visited this river, but every time I visit this river, I definitely see changes that occur, this is very natural because this is a river that is directly in nature, so the changes that occur are also caused by natural factors such as floods.
And behind us there was also a very wide savanna, so we had a very comfortable shelter at that time, we still had a lot of time, so we could do a lot of things there. The two little ones couldn't wait to swim, but I still forbade them, coincidentally at that time I was already comfortable relaxing, so I felt my limbs were very heavy to move Lol
After resting to my heart's content, I immediately invited the two little children to swim in the river, but before that I asked them to walk behind me because we didn't know the condition of the river and where the deep areas of the river were. After making sure all areas were safe, I immediately allowed them to swim as much as they wanted there, but still under my supervision.
Take a look at where they are standing, isn't it in the middle of the river? Yes, it is indeed in the middle of the river, I don't know what the name of this phenomenon is, where the riverside area is deeper than the middle area of the river.
even though in the middle of the river area it is very shallow, but do not try to walk to the edge of the river if you can not swim,and you can see from the two pictures above the condition of the middle of the river is very shallow but it is also seen that on both sides of the river that looks deeper.
but there was an incident that made me feel very panicked at that time, precisely when I was standing in the middle of the river suddenly my feet sank into the sand, usually many people call it quicksand, this was the first time I saw and felt it directly, the more I moved my feet the faster my feet would sink into the sand.
Rather than letting something undesirable happen, I immediately left the area and chose to swim in a safer place, and to get a sense of satisfaction, I immediately put away my cellphone and started to focus on swimming.
I don't know how long I spent swimming, but I felt like I had been swimming for a very long time, and my body was also starting to feel cold, so I started to climb to the edge and dry my clothes, the two little kids still looked busy swimming, they were not satisfied and they did not show at all that they were cold.
If you pay close attention to the second picture, you will be able to see the two little children happily swimming there. I didn't force them too much and let them swim as much as they wanted, but still under my supervision.
When it started to get dark, we immediately packed up all our equipment and got ready to make the journey home.
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