My great Arventure: Bintan Day 2

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Bintan Day 2

If you remember I went to the island of Bintan during the Chinese New Year, which was in the beginning of February. I was there for 3days. I have reported on Day 1 already so here is Day 2.

We were told by the "manager" at our resort that there is a nice Chinese temple in a village that we could check out to see some Chinese New Year celebrations. So we (again it was Kiran, Mark, Niche and myself) decided to go.

It was actually kind of dissapointing. When we went there wasn't anything going on, and it wasn't much of a temple. There were some altar praying areas, but nothing really exciting or interesting. But here are some photos.

One of the praying areas

Pictures of some of the statues are below

This was funny because there was this group of women (who were travelling) that got so excited when they saw Mark and Niche. They ALL wanted to take pictures with them. It was kind of funny though that they didn't really approach Kiran or I even though we were both dressed relatively western like.

I think this is how the Chinese celebrate the New Year :P

Afterwards we walked around the village and just took some shots of the "houses". They are pretty cool actually cuz like Trikora the are built on stilts on the sand.

At night we headed to a seafood restaurant that was about 10mins away from the resort. Well the drive was. We had to walk out what seemed like a kilometer (ok it was probably only 500m) to get to this place on this rickety, decrepit and shaky walkway built over the water!!! Well, it was pretty cool and felt like a mini-arventure. But we definately treaded carefully.