Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Welcome to Indonesia


Robinson Cruso??

Pristine Bintan Beach


Day 158

We get a taxi to the Tanah Merah ferry terminal for our trip to Bintan Island. A lovely smooth ride and we arrive and go through immigration and customs. We are led to fast track as we are paying our Visa in Singapore dollars ($10) The “Official” handed us back our passports and took our $10 and then asked for a tip for him getting us through quickly!!! I was stunned and not knowing what would happen if we didn’t pay I gave him $2. I found out a short time later another man had paid him $20, so thought I had actually done well. Welcome to Indonesia!! A bus takes us to our hotel “Nirwana Resort Hotel” We take a taxi to a nearby village and have another massage........not another massage I hear you all say but for less than $30AUD it’s really hard to resist. We enjoy an afternoon relaxing and enjoying the resort which is on the most beautiful clean and uncrowded beach.

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