11 to 12-04-2009 Bintan Island indonesia

Hello everybody

2nd week end to indonesia, but this time for 2 days and a more comfortable concept of hollidays week end (a 3 days week end in Singapore: from friday to sunday)

so I took the ferry at 9h10 on saturday morning (yes an early wake up as you have to be at the ferry terminal 1 hour before)

and here we go, direction Bintan, after one hour journey you arrive on this beautiful island with white sand beaches and palm trees... very sunny on this saturday.... ( how lucky !!!)

I was joined by Vincent(a TAP colleague) who didn't really enjoyed the boat trip (almost about to turn to green colour)

but well we safely arrived and that is the essential, the resort is part of the Nirwana gardens and is called Nirwana resort hotel, and i have to say i don't really like resort but for once i quite enjoyed it !

some picture below of the resort

Hey guys i want you to look at the landscape and not at this girl in bikini!!!!! as you can see on the other picture below the swimming pool has got a marvellous sight on the cristal blue sea (yes yes check if you focus a little bit you will see the line between the swimming pool water and the sea :-)

Some other pictures of the beaches, so boring .... :-)

some other ones ...

What would you think about a nap in front of such a landscape ???!!!!

Now a little bit of art (at least for the beginner that i am !!!)

Very nice resort where you can enjoy the peace and the lanscapes and also a nice swim in the pool, except when you fall face to face with this new joiner that is at least one meter long and that is not afraid at all to swim among the people

And you can also find this kind of ones at the corner of the gardens...

sorry i don't want to be crual but i just wanted to be sure that you noticed the difference between the sea and the pool !

The programm of the week end has been, arriving on friday morning and check in at the resort, then go to have a bite at pasar hole hole a little village close from there, and then come back for a little snorkeling tour. 20 minutes far from the resort, by boat, at the barracuda bay, you are left for one hour to snorkel among the coral and the fishes. amazing colours and a lot of different species of fishes. blue yellow green purple are there and in all forms, to summarise a very nice hour spent in the cristal sea.

I met 2 very nice american guys who arrived one week ago in singapore and who just came for the day (as I did 3 weeks ago) and invited them to join for a drink at the bar in the swimming pool (the little roof you can see on the last picture on the right) and there while we were having a nice coktail (seven's heaven for me) we met a group of people (almost all drunk but funny, i even met Edward whoo was living in Portsmouth before !!!!) who were there for a wedding. the alcohol helped them of course to invite us on behalf of the married couple to join the beach party given for the wedding in the evening at the Mana Mana beach club. which we did of course! after a nice buffet at the resort (see food and meat and, and, and,...just enough to ruin my walking efforts in the Mac richie reseervoir !!!) we went with a dedicated buggy to the beah party where we have been given a bracelet to access the open bar ( la classe !!!) and we have started to socialise with the guests hoping that the married couple wouldn't come to ask who we were...

but well not feeling really comfortable anyway and willing to avoid the meeting with the married couple we decided to leave and to go to the pub of the island where there was a very nice live band playing quite nice music, and a couple of drinks later went to bed...

sunday morning was a raining one, but luckily the sun pushed all these clouds away and stayed there for the rest of the day, just enough for me to improve my colours.

and after a entire day between beach, swimming pool, sun baths, and chats here and there with japanese, finish, english, and other nationalities we took the ferry back to Singapore.

result cost wise : 

47 SGD=23 euros for the ferry return ticket

110 SGD=55 euros for the resort (breakfast included)

and a couple of euros for the coktails... (depending on how many you drink !!! :-)

Write to you soooooooooooooooooon

olivier