Tanjungpinang, Indonesia

Travel always has inherent challenges.  Often these come in form of language or infrastructure, but Singapore showed me that even in a modern, English-speaking country, things don't always come smoothly.  In fact, it's probably because Singapore ...

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... tolda that there were no rooms available.  So, instead we left earlier than we intended on our ferry to Pulau Bintan, Indonesia.  The 45 minute ferry ride lengthened to two hours (maybe the stopping in the middle of the ocean and going backwards ...

Decided to spend the day on Bintang Island in Indonesia. Mistake! Got the wrong boat . . . should have taken 40 minutes on the hovercraft, but I ended up on the cheap boat the locals use and 2 long, boring hours later I was in Indo. I was the only white ...

So after a few days, we had had our fill of Singapore.  We had hit the quay strip, Chinatown, Little India, museums, even eaten at Taco Bell (Thailand doesn't have one, so Dane and I were really pumped about that visit!).  We were tired of sight ...