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Sunday (28/9/2008)
We woke up at around 8am local time (9am Singapore time) and headed to the buffet breakfast at the Coffee Shop. The free flow of complimentary buffet beakfast will runs until 10.30am local time.

Food like porridge, fried rice, bacons, sausages, fried meehoon, nasi lemak, different types of bread, cakes, fruits, fruits juice, coffee, tea, milk, cereals as well as 3 live cooking kiosks, namely egg station (to cook scrambled egg and omellete), pancake station, sunny side up station (egg as well) can be seen there.

Today’s schedule wasn’t really well planned, we just want to experiece few things like kayaking, ATV, Pasar Oleh Oleh, dip into the sea and swimming pool, if have time then one more round of air rifle and archery before 5pm as all outdoor activities ended at this time.


前往 Pasar Oleh Oleh 的巴士在途中坏了，全车人下车等待接我们的另一辆巴士。
Our first expedition was to go Pasar Oleh oleh, however the bus broke down at the point of 2km away from our destination. Some tourists even took pictures of the unfortunate bus, it was so funny.


我们只是走走看看，这趟“旅程”的收费是每人SGD6。由于这里是专门建造给游客的地方，因此我们打听到如果要去Tanjung Pinang，即真正的印尼城市和市集，可以在这里召德士，路程约1小时30分。
This Pasar is built by the resort, mainly for tourists to have a feel of Bintan’s market, meaning it is a fake market, you can find lots of survenier, bikinis, clothes, restaurants, spa and massage services (this is cheaper than resort, full body massage is only SGD28 wherareas resort charge SGD58). Frankly, if you don’t have anything to buy, you can omit this. But the good thing is you can get a cab to their real market at Tanjung Pinang.


大约中午1点左右，我们又回到resort，原本要玩Action ATV Adventure的越野跑车的，可是这个时段有人，因此预订了下午4点才玩。所以我们就去了玩划船。图片不是我们。
We then headed to play Sea Kayaking. Obviously those in the picture are not us, we got to wear the stupid life jacket, it’s just that we forgot to take picture, haha. Charge for kayaking is SGD18 per hour.

Action ATV Adventure here we come!!!

员工讲解驾驶方法，这个路程是1小时，两人收费SGD80，我们过后会跟随他上路。
We paid SGD80 for 2 persons of one hour adventure. I was so anticipated to hop onto this while pretenting listening to the briefing by the staff of Action All Terrain Vehicles (ATV). If you know how to drive an Auto-car, it is nothing different for you. Unless you never try driving before…. just like Munkey!


一场紧张刺激的旅程即将开始！
Yes, brave girl go first. I took charge of the ATV for the first half an hour.


我们经过了树林，凹凸不平的山路，还有这个惊险度80分的斜坡！其实这个是慢动作的，惊吓度20分。
Slope! The staff helped us to took this picture. He asked me to just press the brake without acceleration，so the ATV won’t run too fast for him to capture this, haha.


We crossed the sea side and drove on the sand!


I took this picture while Munkey was driving. (yay, I got to credit him and let people know he did drive!)


This was his FIRST TIME driving, and the road was far more bumpy than those in the city. Well done!


More information can log onto Action ATV Adventure


玩完了紧张刺激的越野跑车，我们就去泡海水，晒黄昏的太阳，然后又到泳池享受水力按摩。



晚上到酒店楼下的韩国餐厅用餐。
Dinner settled at the Korean restaurant named JeJu.


香辣海鲜面汤
This is “Champang” a spicy seafood udon with prawns, oysters, squids, spring onions and onions.


花生冷面
This is a cold noodle with peanut soup. The texture of the soup is too sticky.


韩国小菜
Two side dishes, kimchee and Korean rice jelly.

Monday (29/9/2008)
We checked out at 12pm after enjoyed a sumptious buffet breakfast again.
Took ferry back, and it was roughly 5pm Singapore time.


Things/activities we wanted to try but didn’t manage to have more time:

Enjoy watching hot dancers at the La Luna outdoor pub on Saturday night.
Go kart - S$28/pax - 10 mins (see link)
Buggy ride around S$25/hour (See link)
South Bintan Heritage Tour - S$84 (includes 2-way land transfers, fully guided tour, local lunch in Tanjung Pinang, mineral water & local snack and insurance coverage) (See link)
Traditional Fishing Tour - S$40 (includes 2-way land transfers, fully-guided tour, mineral water and insurance coverage) (I heard this is pretty exciting as they will teach you method of fish catching)(See link)


到民丹岛玩，无论在安全性、或是吃喝玩乐都不用烦恼。不过，最重要的就是选择一家有许多室内和户外活动的酒店。这是因为民丹岛的北部全都是酒店，而且这地区的所有吃喝玩乐都是为旅客所设，可说是应有尽有。

不过，对于想在民丹岛观赏当地人村庄、融入当地生活的旅客就会有点不方便。因为几乎所有的住宿都设在北部，而真正的城市和村庄都设在离开旅游区至少1小时至1小时半的距离。所以这里可说方圆十里都看不到乡下人，就算有也只是从事酒店和旅游业的工作人员，呵呵。
All resorts are built at the Bintan Resorts area, the rest of the map are none accessible if you are staying at the resorts. You’ll only see “fake” Malay village, market, shop, restaurant and stuff within the Bintan Resort area. Thus you got to hire a cab to bring you out of this touristy area.

Nirwana Garden Resort is located at the left side of the Bintan Resorts area, and I think there is also some other 5-star hotels like Bintan Lagoon Resort, Banyan Tree are located at the right side.

Tanjung Uban is a fisherman’s village, and Tanjung Pinang is Bintan’s major town. If you want to go Tanjung Pinang / Tanjung Uban directly from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, there are different companies offering direct ferry as well, meaning you don’t need to select BRF but other company over the counters.




Related links:
Weekend Bonanza - Bintan (1) 民丹岛之旅
人在Bintan了

Useful links:
Nirwana酒店 Nirwana Garden Resort
BSF渡轮 Bintan Resort Ferries
下载Nirwana酒店活动pdf Nirwana recreational_activities in pdf
民丹岛酒店Bintan Resorts website
Ria Bintan酒店Ria Bintan Resort website
更多其它酒店资讯More resorts in Bintan
论坛 Chinese forum discussion
民丹岛资讯 Information on Bintan Island (In Chinese)
民丹岛资讯 Bintan Island in wikipedia