Little India

We took the plunge and visited Little India last night as we were told that it is beautifully lit up at night at this time of the year. Well it certainly was but we were not prepared for the amount of people that were there. When we looked around we realised that most of the people were male Indians. There were only a handful of females around and most of them were European or Chinese. After going past the temple we were hit with a droning sound and it was all the men talking in their little groups...the noise was deafening...probably like being in a beehive. I did try one of their sweets and decided that they weren't for me..they weren't very sweet and they tasted like milk powder. Maybe I should bring some home for people to try...what do you think?

Bintan

Well we finally got away to this little bit of paradise. People had been telling us how nice it was and now we do believe them. We went over by ferry on the Monday morning...the ferry platform was rocking before we even got onto the ferry and that was rocking and we weren't even moving but no I did not get sea sick, just a little nauseous. We went over with Juliet and Chris, and Peter and Judy.

Our units were sea view and they really were. You looked out the door to the sea and it was so beautiful. I even had a swim as they told me the water was warm and it was. We played cards with the others, had dinner at the restaurant and then played cards again. We all departed to our separate units for a goods night sleep so we could explore a bit in the morning. Well that was the plan only they forgot to tell our hot water cylinder that. I woke up about 3 am thinking "gosh that is heavy rain", but when I opened the bathroom door for the toilet I was getting a shower in hot water...the pipe had burst. We contacted the management and they shifted us to another unit which was even closer to the beach.

This is the view from our unit onto the beach...the first unit.

Wayne is helping Juliet to drag the raft to the water...they were pretending to be on 'survivor'.

The crabs make the most amazing patterns on the sand. This is just one of the many we saw and they only make them at low tide and then they get washed away. We are not sure why they do this but the art work was amazing.

We had a meal at this restaurant...it is a seafood one and the food was simply delicious...although I didn't eat the crab...it was black pepper and they did say it was lovely.
This is the group photo of us

We had a corner table and were watching planes, ships and the lights from other islands.
And to think this was just a 45 minute ferry ride from Singapore.