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Continued from 人在Bintan了.


Saturday (27/9/2008)
After so many rants from friends and colleagues of Bintan Island being their most boring trip ever, Munkey and I decided to find out for ourselves and get a short break for our “get-together” first anniversary.

民丹岛(Bintan Island)，是印尼寥内群岛的最大岛屿，早在郑和下西洋的记载中就已提及民岛。由于离新加坡很近，乘搭渡轮只需45分钟。You won’t feel out of Singapore even when you arrived Bintan Island, as Sing-lish is still pretty much in the air.

We departed on the 26th of September at 12.10pm. Hopped onto bus 35 at Tanah Merah mrt after a long wait of 20 minutes! Actually you should wait at Bedok mrt instead, as there is a bus timing display board (not sure what it is called) when we returned from Bintain and alighted there. The bus arrival time is shown in the board, it would be useful as you can sit and relax.

Well, you’ll see a funny looking demon king mask-over in the next few pictures, as someone said himself is consider a celebrity in the blogging community, so I shall not show his “real life” picture in my blog to maintain his reputation, ahem.


我们抵达渡轮总站，准备出发到民丹岛了！
See, Munkey was so happy to get away from tonnes of work and annoying errands. We reached one and half hour prior to the departure time as requested.


渡轮总站的内部。可要记得带护照，因为你是从新加坡出境到印尼哦。
The terminal is well built like mini airport, looks organized, spacious and clean. I encountered some wooden ramshackle jetties during trips to Phuket Island, Gaya Island (Sabah) and Manukan Island (Sabah) few years back, I believe they should be better now.


渡轮很舒服，应有的设施都有。肚子饿了可以到柜台买食物，售价3元以上，我是说一份杯面3新元。欲知渡轮详情，可浏览Bintan Resort Ferries网站查询或订购。
Ferry fare to Bintan Island would actually burn a huge hole in your pocket. Departure on weekends (from Friday to Sunday) is considered “Peak Period Counter Fare”, one person has to pay SGD59.20 for one way, SGD118.40 for return ticket, you can log onto their website to have a clearer picture.


终于抵达民丹岛了！Ferry terminal at Bintan Island.


我们下榻的 Nirwana 酒店有免费接送码头。
Free terminal transfer service by Nirwana Garden Resort.


喝一杯黄梨果汁歇一歇吧。
Welcome drink upon arrival. The resort looks like 5-stars, however I heard it was 4, I wonder how they rate it.


People were checking in, waiting time was around 10 minutes. Pass.


酒店提供的免费巴士接送服务，如果你觉得有用，就点击图像下载吧。
Free shuttle bus to inter-resorts, like Nirwana Garden Resort, Mayang Sari Beach Resort, Nirwana Beach Club, Banyu Biru Villa and Indra Maya Villa, as well as bus schedule for ferry terminal transfer.


酒店的房间不会很大，也不是非常小啦，隔壁那间有露台，我们的没有。酒店用的是中央式冷气，就算房间关了冷气也非常冻，而且窗口又不能开，少了点 resort 应有的海滩风味。
We were staying at the Superior Room, weekends (Fri-Sat) is S$185++, weekdays (Sun-Thur) is S$135++. So for this 3 days 2 nights trip, which was stretched from check-in (Sat) to check-out (Mon), we paid around SGD330 for room charge.


蔚蓝的天空，心旷神怡！


海水清澈见底。海滩的沙粒也白白细细的，赤脚走感觉都很顺滑柔软。这里的沙，和圣淘沙的比较，简直是天和地。


有美丽的景色，当然也少不了美丽饿魔。



在房间休息了一会儿，大约4点左右我们就去酒店走走。过后在5点左右，就玩射枪和射箭，姿势不错吧，呵呵。
Air rifle is charged at SGD8 for 25 bullets, which is consider reasonable. We played archery as well, it was charged at SGD8 for 25 arrows.


吃晚餐了！
Late lunch/early dinner at resort’s Coffee Shop. This mocktail was nice, charged at SGD5.


我们点了两份印尼餐，味道还不错。
We paid over SGD30 for the dinner.


我在Kuala Selangor看过萤火虫，不过还是觉得要看看这个曾获得03年亚太地区生态旅游金奖的红树林晚上的萤火虫又是如何的。
We missed the 3pm Mangrove tour, so decided to go for Firefly watching at 7.30pm local time. Paid SGD38 per person.


上船咯！

辽阔的河床虽然黑暗，但却有着满布的星空照亮了前路。那种震撼让眼睛不肯闭上，深怕天上的星星会从此匿迹。良久良久，看得颈项也酸了，眼前迎来的又是闪着有旋律光线的萤火虫，满布着整个红树林的壮观场面。一眼往前望去，天空密布的是星河，河床密布的是地球的“星星”萤火虫，这是多么地令人难以忘怀哪。

据说，萤火虫只有14天，而且只出现在未受污染的河床，随着城市的发展，萤火虫也逐渐消失。整个体验，我能说的是，真的是非相机能够捕捉，非笔墨能够形容，只能细心和亲身体会，黑暗、河水与红树林的静谧，以及大自然的震撼。
下图是从网上找到的，还不是很接近我所看过的“壮观星河”之旅。


过几天请留意完结篇Weekend Bonanza - Bintan (2) 民丹岛之旅，我们还去玩了越野车All Terrain Vehicles呢！