Weather is not yet the cold December we usually have by this time of the year here in the Philippines. Have you noticed it? I'm so keen about weather these days. The global climate change has intrigued me a lot. The weird exchange cycle of wet and dry seasons ( atleast us here have only two, what more if we got the common 4 seasons, that would be crazier:)) has never been so unpredictable as it is this year and the previous year.
So don't laugh at me if you saw me layering my outfits on supposedly summer season here or spending weekends on a beach during supposedly cold "ber" months.
Hence the summer feel in December, I thought a beach post could still fit in before the year ends. Thu' I don't promise that this one would be my last beach getaway this year. Matter of fact I just got an invite for a day stay in a local beach. Only I'm not yet sure if I would have time to attend to it with this busy yuletide season setting in. We'll see.
This particular beach day was a month ago. At a neighbor here in the tropics _ at Bintan, Indonesia. After an almost one hour fast speed catamaran ride from Singapore, we needed not to avail the regular coach transfer cos we had rented a car that we used around with our mini Bintan tour and finally sent us to the resort .
I was amused by the size of Nirwana Gardens. The whole resort has a total of five holiday stops. So big it housed giant animals_ it has an elephant park!!!. . to say the least.
At Nirwana Resort Hotel, we were welcomed by a musical performance and were served with welcome drinks ofcourse.
The reception lobby was relatively huge that when a friend saw my photos, she thought they were taken in an airport. See, we are third world like that, haha. Show us a a big space and we would think of it as an airport, haha.
The lobby was full of tribal trinkets on display.
The accommodation was a sweet delight.
The facade of the resort hotel buildings reminded me of our own Shangrila, Boracay. There's small similarity in architecture but Shang.Bora is more awesome in many ways.
How can you refuse to idle your day in a haven like this? I can't. . I'm weak.haha.
You notice it too?? The whole Bintan trip I wore this black top intensively, haha. At overseas getaways, we actually are so random and always travel light. Usually with no extra clothes at all. Sometimes we would decide on our next destination right on the spot. Most of the time, no extra margin to prepare for our outfits, I hate that!!! haha.
Extremely opposite of the beaches in Batam ( Indonesia also ), Bintan beaches stand mighty!!! Nirwana Resort Hotel best asset is the beach. With spanning hectares of powdery beach!!!! Best of all soooooooooooo uncrowded. Think about our white beaches in station 1,2 & 3 of Boracay, delete the images of crammed commercial establishments and the uber crowded beach goers. . then you get the image above.
What can I ask for?. . but to bring me back there. .now!!!! haha.
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