BinTan

Bintaann is located near Singapore. that's why we chose to go here for another weekend gateway. And off course for celebrate my birthday! yippiiiee.. you can take a ferry from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal. it will costs you around 50 SGD for a return tickets. it is a little bit expensive during a festive season. you can also go there from Batam. I think it will costs less. no need visa. Bintan is an integrated resort. So it was very easy. you just google, search where you wanna to stay in, make a reservation by call the hotel directly. After you arrive there, a hotel bus will pick you up. it will spend around 15 minutes to arrive at the hotel. many good hotel there which provide you different amenities, such as cool beach, spa, 2 ways transports. in our case, we chose Bintan lagoon Resort. This is because the others resort has fully booked. :(









The hotel itself, is the oldest among all hotels in Bintan resort. They will charge you in SGD rather than in Rp. :(( BUT the underline word is...The beach so damn beautiful!! You will feel you have your own private beach.





Just few step from hotel garden, you see beach. The dawn at the next day was a breathtaking :D. we spent around 30 minutes to walk along the beach. The sand was white and smooth. the beach also clean and you know, the water so damn blue and beautiful....ONE of the MOST beautiful place i ever been! The breakfast also nice. They serve you with multicultural breakfast, from Asian to European. Since i am prefer to have European breakfast with all those meat :D



Oyah, the hotel is very big, it has 2 wings. Actually, overall the hotel is a little bit old. And the interior is standard. a little disappointed for the room. we spent the night to have dinner in Samuderea. One of Hotel Seafood restaurant. Actually the food is nice, but we spent almost 70SGD for 2 set meal. oo GOSH! It was too expensive. So better you try to find food outside the hotel. Actually they have, Pasar Ole-Ole. you can call one of their restaurant, and they will pick you up at the hotel and transfer you back. But for BLR is cannot. don't know why...:( another disappointment!

So on the day 1, we spent the whole day just for swimming, played on the beach, have dinner, and walking around the Hotel. Since BLR is the biggest hotel among all Bintan resort, so you can walking around there. :D

On day 2, after we finish our breakfast, and check out, we went for snorkeling! yeeeyyyy!!!! :D my first snorkeling! We needed to pay around 30 dollar for a package. The tour consists of 10 people. They were some from Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and korea I think. And WE ALMOST LATE! so we need to run on the water to catch up the boat. The instructor told us how to use the equipment, and they gaave us a bread for fish feeding!!! :D

AND DO YOU KNOW! The fish were beautiful. We absolutely can see all the fish clearly! If you gave them bread, they will come to you and even biting your skin. Somehow it feels itchy but NICE! :D we were so happy!!!

But unfortunately, suddely it was raining. huh! Actually we will snork for 2 hours, It was just 1 and half hour! :D damn! But again,,, it was beautiful! :)

After took a bath, we continued our journey, to PAsar Ole-Ole!!! yeyeyyeye!!! we booked from one of staff friend. He will pick us and bring us to that place and later picked us and transfer us to the ferry terminal. We need to pay aroun 40 SGD! expensive :( we were at Indonesia please. So can you charge us in Rupiah! :(. somehow they lost their identity!

it was hard raining, so we decided to have full body massage, and reflexiologi. it cost around 30 SGD. But we feel totally relax :D. And until the time come we needed to go back to Singapore...huhuhu :D

Conclution : Indonesia has many beautiful places! :D we as Indonesian should be proud of it!