Nirwana Resort Bintan
Tanjung Tondang, (formerly Mana Mana Beach Club) Bintan, Riau, 29155, Indonesia
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Bintan Resort, Indonesia 15 - 18 June 2009
The flight from Perth to Singapore takes the same as from Brisbane to Perth - Five and a half hours!
After the four weeks in Australia we decided to finish our trip off with a week in Singapore to get a final Asian touch. We opted to head out to Bintan Island in Indonesia, for some sun, sand and sea, for the first half of the week and …
From minus 2 to bloody hot
Well here we are at our final destination. We left Avignon and drove to Anse just north of Lyon for one night and then on to Strasbourg. There was a language mix up at the little local restaurant and I ended up ordering the local specialty - unfortunately it was a sausage of pigs intestines! I must improve my french before we go back. Then a heap …
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... and we could walk to small islands less than a mile from where we were staying.
We went to a BBQ for exchange students that were staying on the island. There were over 50 students that went on this unorganized trip! The BBQ was not prepared for so many and had to get additional tables and chairs. We tried some food we had no idea what it was and could not be explained to us by the cooks. It was fun trying the different food and one was described as "native to ...
Pray, Love, Eat!
... was my driver and guide. He hadn't seen his wife and daughters in 3 days since he usually stays at the resort employee compound. We were driving near his place and so I said I didn't mind if he stopped. His daughters were exstatic to see their father.
During this drive I started thinking about my trip through Asia. It's been very much like Elizabeth Gilbert's story, but in an abridged sort of way. She had spent much more time in each ...



