Sunday, March 19, 2006

We went to a getaway on the tiny part of Bintan Island, hugely monopolised by Singapore Investors with their resort style establishments. This day, we stayed at the Mayang Sari beach resort, owned by Nirwana Gardens.



This resort, categories between the sea view and the garden view chalets, made entirely of wood structures. Sea resorts are named after sea creatures and garden resorts are named by bugs in the garden.



We stayed in Butterfly 3 as show in the picture below.


Our room was located real near to the Asmara Spas, that accounts for why it always smells so wonderful when we step onto the veranda for some chill time, listening to the waves and enjoying the breeze.


Warning signs flank the sides of walkway towards the pristine beach. Informing the guests what their flags represents. At the moment when this picture was taken, it was red flag, indicating there's no life guards on duty.



On the other end of the walkway was a notice about some "dangers" of swimming by the sea. Attack by the seasonal jellyfishes would render the bottles at the bottom of the notice board useful to the guests.


I couldn't untie my hair because of the strong winds. It was superbly glaring, despite it being only the morning sun but the strong winds did not make us feel that it was a extremely hot day.


That's Ray heading out to sea, attacking the waves..... I thought this picture to be beautiful because of the sharp contrasts between all the different colours.


I couldn't quite see what I was taking when I was photographing awaybecause of the glare from the sun... the LCD couldn't quite show you what you are taking.. so i used the viewfinder like we used to with the conventional film cameras.


Pictures of some sand crabs. They are actually really tiny, but the 12 times optical zoom enabled me to take this very wonderful picture of an army of them... running away from me when they sense me approaching.


Some weird flowers outside of our chalet.. looks like berries their fruits, but the flowers so spikey..


That's the para-skiing activity that takes place over at Mana Mana, our resort neighbour everytime when the sun sets. It only takes place when the sun sets.. I wonder why.

More photos actually but its just too tiring to keep uploading the pictures.. I have got 300+ of them...

till then