Anyways, I went to bintan last week. OMG, there's absolutely nothing there! Nothing is nice there except the beach. We stayed at Bintan Lagoon Resort who charges us an exorbitant price of S$6.50 for a can of Pringles. And there're mysterious beetles flying and dying along the corridors. And our room with garden view has no garden outside. All we could see is the slope of a hill. But our rooms were pretty nice.
on the ferry
This is our room. (Actually, it's Clara and Adna's room)
We went to this place call Pasar Oleh Oleh. It's a tourist attraction and it's very deserted. It's like a dead town. It feels pretty awkward there, coz we felt like we're the only ones there, and all the shop owners were like preying on us.
And then, we board a taxi and left the place. We were very lucky to meet a chinese taxi uncle who can speak chinese! We felt so relieved, coz even though the locals could speak simple english, we just couldn't make out what they were saying. It's really a pain! If anyone's going to Bintan, you can get the uncle's no. from me. I still have his namecard!
And so, for the rest of our trip, we got the uncle to drive us around!
On the 2nd day:
We went to the town area of Bintan and tried to do some shopping. OMG, the exchange rate is like S$1 to Rupiah$7000-$8000! The last time I went, it was only $5700! We went groccery shopping like crazy. We bought cup noodles, crackers (15cents each), yakult (it's only 90cents per pack), blah blah...
We saw this car outside the shopping centre. At first I tot the uncle was very hip and ZHNG his car until like that. But later I found out from the taxi uncle... It's a BUS! And there're colour coded! I saw a purple and orange one along the way... So cool! So old school...
We went to this seafood restaurant to have our dinner. It started pouring heavily after we finished our dinner. So we started cam-whoring since we're stuck there.
On our last day:
So the beach it is... We shld have just roam around the beach during the 3 days! It was the best thing during this trip. The shopping sux, the food sux, but the beach is wow. Look at how clear the water is.
I bought this jelly lens from Action City. Haha... FAKE Fisheye photos! Not bad sia... can bluff right...
Ohya.. I forgot to mention. The cigarettes there is like freaking cheap! $2 per pack. But please remember to DECLARE your goods at the custom. The tax for 1 pack of cigarettes is S$7.65.. Don't ask me why or how I know. I just know. Thanks huh Mr. Lee..
