Over the weekends, we made a super impromptu decision to go to Bintan for a short holiday. The plan was to just simply find a place to chill, have fun and enjoy the beach, sand and resort. The entire trip wasn't expensive, we booked our ferries last minute and went to Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal. Thank god for grab promotion as well that we managed to get a driver to drive us cheaply into the terminal. The night was really scary as we reached there at 9.15pm. By the time, all the shops were closed and there were many people trying to persuade us to go with them, with their private vans or car. I knew they going to extort us simply because we are foreigners, so I hurried all of us to walk quickly and try our luck in getting cabs outside.

Thank god for kind people in Bintan! You can read the incident here in my dayre here! Travelling to Bintan is relatively easy, just Tanah Merah ferry terminal - Bandar Bentan Telani (1hr 10 minutes ride approximately. Basically Batam is a small island with many beaches and resorts, but after been twice before, I still feel that living near Trikora beach is still the best. Reason being? There are more adventurous things that require no expensive charges like walking to different kellong, offshore platform build predominately by wood, relaxing your legs by dipping into the sea and kayaking to the island with risk of course! We wanted to do that until the lady told us that the wave currents can be rather unpredictable and huge. It might just sink your kayak so there's a low chance we are unable to come back. But what's adventure without risk right?

The beautiful huts and chairs at the coastal area.

The sun was crazily scotching hot and I was one shade darker despite putting many sunblocks on my skin. However, nothing ever beats roaming around doing nothing. As we thought we should explore further the places, we wanted to rent a car! I have previously googled the places and realise that they are very much apart from one another. Hence, we rented for 9 hours and drove to different places that we wanted to cover.

First stop: Pizza Casa Italia, Bintan Regency, Riaus Island, Bintan

Really authentic italian pizza served in Bintan!

Thank you for reading!

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