http://www.motochan.com/2009/01/05/the-untold-tales-of-batam/ Musings on Technology, Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship, Travel, Photography and everything else in between Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:55:29 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.motochan.com/2009/01/05/the-untold-tales-of-batam/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Telunas Beach Resort: Review and Reflections — Master Of The Obvious Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:51:45 +0000 http://www.motochan.com/?p=704#comment-327 [...] Food was tasty and very home-styled, albeit limited in choices.  The waters off the resort weren’t fantastic for snorkeling, so we gave that a miss and focused on what we came here for.  If you find that you’ve not been having enough time to yourself, a 3D2N trip to Telunas will quickly change that.  I went through the more interesting books from the resort’s meagre library, slacked around the resort and the beach, fished with a line or simply did…nothing.  It wasn’t all sitting around though - the three resort owners rounded up a group of 20-odd adults and kids on a short 20-minute trek to the forests behind the resort where we ate a bunch of termites (yum!) and went through the resident obstacle/height confidence course.  My girlfriend and I also visited a nearby 2,000-strong fishing village where we learnt quite a bit about life on and around the Riau Islands. [...] [...] Food was tasty and very home-styled, albeit limited in choices.  The waters off the resort weren’t fantastic for snorkeling, so we gave that a miss and focused on what we came here for.  If you find that you’ve not been having enough time to yourself, a 3D2N trip to Telunas will quickly change that.  I went through the more interesting books from the resort’s meagre library, slacked around the resort and the beach, fished with a line or simply did…nothing.  It wasn’t all sitting around though – the three resort owners rounded up a group of 20-odd adults and kids on a short 20-minute trek to the forests behind the resort where we ate a bunch of termites (yum!) and went through the resident obstacle/height confidence course.  My girlfriend and I also visited a nearby 2,000-strong fishing village where we learnt quite a bit about life on and around the Riau Islands. [...]

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