Meet Jet



Beside surfing destination, Krui is also a transit town for cyclist who venture all the way along Sumatera. I have often met cyclist who stayed in Krui for a few days before they continue the journey. Those cyclist came down to Krui from Bintuhan, a small town about 150 km up north. Bintuhan is just the last transit town before they come to Krui. Although there are some small towns in between, cyclists are used to go straight to Krui.

And so did Jet Agelink of Venlo, Holland who I met in Krui the other day. If you meet Jet for the first time, you may think that she’s just like the girl next door, you’ll never know that she has been able to ride a bike, along with her bunch of stuff to carry, as far as 100 km a day. Jet, 24, arrived in Krui from Bintuhan on June 17, 2012. He spent two days in Krui and left the town for Kota Jawa, a small town about 120 km south of Krui, early in the morning on June 20, 2012.


Jet started her bike journey in Vientiane, Laos, Januari 3, 2012. She first rode the bike all the way, as far as 800 km, from Laos to Phuket, Thailand. It took her ten days to finally get to Phuket from Vientiane. Then from Thailand, she continued riding her bike to Cambodia, then to Melaka, Malaysia. 

From Melaka, she took a ferry over to Dumai, Sumatera, Indonesia. And it is from this town that she started her long way journey ventured all the way from north down to the south of the island. He started from Dumai on May 25, 2012, to Duri. From Duri, then she continued to Pekanbaru, then to Bangkinang, then to Tanjung Pati, before she finally got to Bukittinggi, a tourist destination town in the West Sumatera. Judging from this route that she took from Dumai to Bukittinggi, I can tell that Jet is a tough cyclist. A former cyclist that I met in town before in January, didn’t dare enough to venture this route. He took a bus instead.

Then from Bukittinggi, she went down to Pariaman-Bungus-Painan-Tapan-Muko-Muko-Ipuh-Talang Baru-Bengkulu-Maros-Bintuhan, before she finally got to Krui.

She rode her bike all day long from early in the morning to the evening and stopped every time the night falls. She spent the night mostly in a hotel in every town where she ended up. And if she ended up in the middle of nowhere, she would either hitch a ride on a truck to a nearest town, or stayed in a tent.

During her journey in Sumatera, she had spent two days off in Bukittinggi, two days in Pekanbaru, one day in Ipuh, one day in Maninjau, and two days in Krui.

Jet wrote some notes about her adventurous journey in her blog. www.crazyonabike.com/cycledipity. In one of her note she wrote, …    Cycling on I soon learn I am quickly running out of water. Trying to buy some with my dollars prove difficult, nobody has any change or there is a lot of miscommunication. On and on I go, in the hope to find somebody with enough change. 5km before I reach Sisophon I try to buy water one last time, when it hits me that I have a thermos flask full in my panniers. I filled that up the other day after hearing there would be little on my route to Aranyaprathet but never used it. Cursing myself for not thinking of this earlier I drink the whole flask in one go. I am feeling a little better, but I might still be a bit dehydrated....

Goodbye Jet, may you fare well, and have good lucks.

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