It was a very short trip to Bintan. We boarded the ferry (ARIA BUPALA) at around 12pm on a rainy afternoon. The ferry was huge with economy and emarald classes. The journey was for around an hour and we found people from different countries traveling with us.
After an hour, we reached the Indonesian immigration and got a visa on arrival. We boarded the bus that went to the resort we booked (Bintan Lagoon resort).
The garden facing room was very beautiful. We dropped our bags and ran towards the beach. It was an awesome view with white sand and light blue waters. It was a calm and relaxing beach with children making sand castles, boys playing throw ball, some of them playing in the beach, some clicking pictures and enjoying the water sport activities.
The rocks had weird pencil like drawings on them. And when we clicked a picture zooming on to the small parts it looks like this
After relaxing for a while, we managed to catch a slot for the ATV (All terrain vehicle). We were supposed to follow the guide with the ATV. Surprisingly, this vehicle moves on any terrain, for example, beach sand, slush, hard roads, water, mud etc.
We went around the resort to have a look at what it had. It had many shops selling shirts, beach wear, fridge magnets, massage oil etc. We were tempted to buy a few souvenirs :) We also realized that if we pay them in Indonesian Rupaya they return the change back in Singapore dollars. :) The country's currency has no value I suppose. We were carrying millions of IDR as 1 SGD = 7000 IDR. I was shocked when I saw a million dollar Rupaya note :)
The next morning was very sunny and we managed to reach the free breakfast buffet on time. Usually when you go out for vacation, you tend to sleep a lot. The international breakfast was a big hit. We were totally impressed with the donuts they had. Oh yeah !! I think they knew what I liked :D
We got a foot massage done and it felt so good. Indonesian massages are equally relaxing as Thai massages. We managed to get some beach beds to relax on the sunny beach mid afternoon. It was very sunny and were totally tanned.. Again, we saw a lot of Caucasians relaxing and having fun with their family. This was totally a relaxing holiday spot.
After 3pm we decided to go for Archery to try it out. We were taken to the golf course and I think this was one of the greenest places I have ever seen. Sometimes I feel they've poured green paint all over. Lol. We had an awesome Archery session. And now I feel I wanna do more Archery :)
We still had 4 more hours for our ferry back to Singapore. We decided to rent a Buggy to get around the place and see the different kinds of Villas they had. It was awesome fun going around the 300 hectares of deluxe island resort.
We took the last ferry back to Singapore and it was a very memorable trip :)
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