spend 3 days in bintan island, the 1st night was with my group of peeps at banyu biru villa, the beach is fantastic, i can see fish in there. is clear as compared to Bintan Lagoon. the buffet lunch wasn't very nice, they only have beef redang, tom yam noodle, deserts, rice, veg, fish, squid etc. we had that as is $22++ and is buffet compared to a plate of fried rice that cost $15++. we head for beach after that, and then to the jacuzzi pool. we spend some time swimming while waiting for the rest to arrive at a later timing. the sun wasn't very strong, maybe at some point of time as we started suntanning about 3pm (sin time). after tanning, swimming.. we decided go back shower and have dinner. went to pasar oleh oleh to eat a 10 course seafood dinner, which cost about $108++. took a shuttle, that is free as we just have to spend min $36, of cos we can do that cos we have like 8 people? the food is rather cheap, compared to hotel, although its still a tourist spot. is just like 15mins away from the banyu biru, and the banyu biru is 10mins away from the ferry terminal. so if you're traveling from the ferry terminal is like 25 mins. so after dinner, we settled down waiting for the rest of group to arrive and start our theme party. the theme is to cross dress, and i think we did pretty well, cos the 'girls' are kinda hot, and the guys.. i shld say 'manly'? the party ends with drinking as usual, and playing drinking games. for those who are drunk or soon to be drunk, off to bed earlier than the party ends.
the 2nd day, was suppose to reach bintan lagoon at 3pm. so we decided to have our morning breakfast, the breakfast was so much nicer than the lunch, the chicken sausage is good,omelette(mushroom taste like it still has water retain in it). then we head off for some suntanning,and leave for the next hotel. so we reach there like 2hours early, decided to walk around and explore as we can't check in early. so we went to their terrace cafe to have some drinks after when we found there is slight drizzle.hoping the weather sucks,so we don't have to play team bonding game. but nevertheless, we played. THE PD amazing race, kinda lame, but we were all busy running around that we don't even have much time to interact with new faces. we ran like mad, from north to south and back to north again. not easy especially you have to compete with 9 other teams. but the prize wasn't that amazing anyway. but the forfeit is terrible, so i'm kinda lucky that we are not 1 of the forfeit teams. dinner was buffet, with crayfish, prawn, minestrone (sour, so is nice), fried rice, kway teow, mackerel, grilled chicken, sirloin steak etc. free flow of bintang beers. the dinner lasted about 2 hours or so, then off we head to my colleague's room to play drinking games again. woke up rather late compared to the day before, and head to the pool for some suntanning (but there's no sun), and we played water polo. the teams were even, so we decided to take a break and then go for lunch. and after lunch, some slacking around and chit chatting, off we say good bye to bintan.
suprisingly, i didn't have any bubble bath this trip. too tired. |
