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| Pancung - Traditional wooden boat |
We went to special port for short-distance trip by pancung - a traditional wooden boat with 1 single motor. It cost Rp. 15,000- per person. We headed for Belakang Padang Island. It took 15 minutes to reach the island. The wave was calm and it was a nice and exciting short trip.
Belakang padang is an island and included in batam city territory. In old days, it was first established prior to batam island. Nowdays, Batam island is the center of civilization as the impact of rapid development in couple decades.
As we arrived in belakang padang sea port, we walked about 300 meters to find a small coffee shop with traditional delicious cuisines. We were starving at the time. As we found the shop, we ordered what is popular in belakang padang which are: Mie Lendir and roti prata. I also having teh tarik for my self. At that time, the shop was full of customer, and we had to wait longer. But the cuisine was worth to wait. We ate and got full :D
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| Mie Lendir Belakang Padang |
After having brunch, we stayed a lil longer to relax our body for a healthy digestion :p
Like an Old saying "Lapar ganas, kenyang dongo" It means " When you are hungry, you become a monster, but when you're full, you become a moron...
It's time to travel the island
From the shop, we walked downtown. We asked local how on earth to travel the island. The local suggested us to take a pedicab or ojek - motorcycle. The price for ojeg is Rp. 50.000 per person, for pedicab is Rp. 50.000 per 2 persons. Mathematicaly, we spend less money if we take pedicab. Hence we took a pedicab.
It took less than an hour to travel the island.
Before the pedicab took us back to downtown, we ordered to be taken to white sand beach. Litteraly, we couldnt find the white sand heheh.. It is not recommended anyway. So we went to the port right away after a flash look. At the sea port we discussed about continuing our journey to the island next to belakang padang.
It is called Sambu Island. My destination was Belakang sambu beach which located at the back of the island. Thats why it's called belakang which means "back"
Sambu Island
Sambu Island is 15 minutes away by pancung from Belakang padang sea port. It cost Rp. 10,000 per person. The island was wellknown as an oil island. It was the oil reserve station for Pertamina - the only oil state company of Indonesia. Now, it still working but in a very low capacity. Many houses and facilities are abondened. I think the company involve not as many workers as it was. Thats a lil info about the island.
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| Sambu Island Port |
As we arrived, I felt like we were alone in this island. We barely saw human being in this island. No local, only small group of worker in a canteen. (may be it was a recess time). From the port we walked to the hill. The only clue was that the island located at the opposite of the port-side island. So the beach might be at the back of the hill.
When we reached the hill, i was surprised. what was left on my sight was a jungle. But after a lil walk from an abondent house, i found a track.
Yeah a track down to the....BEACH. I almost couldnt sea the beach. We walked down to the beach. But it is not as near as we thought. So we took a break and take a few pic :P
Finally, after a long way down we enter a seaside housing complex. It was peaceful. The Houses is well-take care eventhough most of it has been abondened. Moreover, it was so clean, i was totally impressed.
Satisfied with the wind blowing through our hair, we continued out trip to the end spot of the beach. It was the closest spot to view Singapore island.
At the end of our journey was a pertamina tower. It's located at the corner/tip of the island. The scenery from the top of tower was awesome.
We went back through the same route. It was about 4 pm when we reached the port. There were no passenger left unfortunately. So we had to rent a pancung to batam. It cost Rp. 100,000 per boat.
Our trip was fantastic. what a day!! :D
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