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Batam Daytrips - Index Page

Two Hour Trips: * Duriangkang Dam * Batu Merah * Tanjung Uma *
Half Day Trips: * Tembesi Valley * Sambu Island * Nongsa Coast *
Full Day Trips: * Galang Islands * Rempang Island *
Longer Sidetrips: * Bintan Island * Kundur Island * Historic Lingga *
East Java * West Sumatra *
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Planning to spend some time on Batam Island? Hope to have some free time for sightseeing?
This site covers some of Batam's many places of natural beauty that are easy enough to visit yourself. Enjoy!

BATAM DAY OUTINGS
This site is divided into 4 sections, according to how much time is needed, to visit the area:
You are currently at the Daytrips Index Page. Click on a daytrip to see more detail. Click an any image to see it full sized.


1] Quick outings, within 30 minutes of Nagoya: Batu Merah, Tj Uma, Duriangkang Dam.
2] Places that need about half a day to visit: Nongsa Coast, Tembesi-Bridge-1 and Sambu Islands.
3] Full day trips: to Rempang and Galang Islands.
4] Overnight trips: Bintan and Kundur Islands.

Overnight trips to Bintan and Kundur islands.
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QUICK OUTINGS WITHIN 30 MINUTES OF NAGOYA
These outings are best done between 4pm and 6pm, when the day has started to cool down.
1] - Duriangkang Dam East Shore is 30 minutes from Nagoya. Enter in front of the Legenda Malaka housing estate, about 1/2 km after Simpang Muka Kuning. More..

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This area can be reached by motorbike, bicycle or on foot.
Best to go in the late afternoon, after 4pm.

2] The village houses between Batu Merah and Tanjung Sengkuang are good for an hour or two's scenic walk. More..

Batu Merah: A Wavemaster Ferry on it's way to Singapore, Johore (Malaysia) is in the background.
Tanjung Sengkuang / Batu Merah scene.
Road to Kg Batu Merah - mature rubber trees.

3] - A scenic walk in the Tanjung Uma area can start from the boat crossing in front of the Hotel Novotel. More..

Tanjung Uma plantation.
The reef at low tide.
Nagoya town from Tj Uma hill

HALF DAY TRIPS
1] Tembesi Valley & Bridge-1 Peaceful farmland, rich mangroves. More..

Bridge-1.
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Tembesi Valley farmland.
Tembesi East-West Trail.

2] Nongsa Coast from Kampung Mata Ikan to Batu Besar. Seaside scenery. Pass though uninhabited bush and secondary regrowth, then some seaside fishing communities into more densely settled villages as the trails gets closer to Batu Besar. More..

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3] Sambu and Bee Pee Islands. Slow and gracious, nice old Dutch houses and matured gardens in a seaside setting. more...

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DAY TRIPS - Each of these trips needs the best part of a day.
1] Bridge-5 area and Galang islands.Take time to walk the valley of the Vietnam refugees. More..

From Bridge-5 looking east to Galang jetty.
Rempang and Bridge-5 in the background, Galang in the foreground.
Refugee boats.

2] Rempang Island's Sembulang Coast and Dapur Enam, where charcoal is made using thousand year old techniques. More..

Sembulang coast. At high tide, good for a swim.
Raw wood stacked at the Dapur Enam charcoal factory.
Sembulang seashore

OVERNIGHT TRIPS
1] Bintan Island - Tanjung Pinang town and Penyneget Island. If you take the first ferry, you can visit historic Bintan in a single day. More..

Historic Penyenget Island has no cars. An ideal morning walk.
Ferries to Batam. Penyenget Island in the background.
Tanjung Pinang morning market.

2] Tanjung Batu, Kundur Island Miles of shaded plantation trails. Slow, easy country living. Great single track morobiking or cycling. More..

Kundur is criss crossed by many shaded plantation pathways.
The Sawang beach is deserted.
Ideal to see by bicyle or rented motorbike.

LONGER SIDETRIPS:
Batam's excellent Hang Nadim Airport is an excellent jumping off point to make side trips to spots in Java, Sumatra and the Lingga Islands.

Historic Lingga Island can be reached by Merpati Airlines, which flies three times/week, from Batam to Dabo airport on Singkep Island.
The 2 hour Mandala Airlines flight to Surabaya Juanda airport in East Java departs Batam at 2pm daily.
There are daily flights from Batam to Padang airport, an hour's drive from the West Sumatra Highlands.

Lingga is for the adventurous. Accomodation on Lingga could be very basic (e.g. on someone's floor). There is little or no English spoken and the main form of transport is "ojek" (motorbike taxi). Dabo Singkep is about 2 - 3 hours by boat from Daik Lingga. A daily ferry to Tj Pinang departs from either Dabo or Jago towns at 8am daily. There is a ferry to Tj Pinang from Pancur Lingga. All flights and ferries are liable to be cancelled at short notice.
West Sumatra is easy to reach and easy to get around. Hire a car straight from Padang Airport to Bukit Tinggi town in the highlands. There are places to stay in the various highland towns and settlements. Try to spend at least three full days. Use a car or hire a motorbike in Bukit Tingi or bring your own MTB. (Remember that the word "highlands" implies lots of hills!)
East Java is a 2 hour flight from Batam but the hill resort of Tretes is only an hour's drive from Surabaya's Juanda airport.
West Java Highlands only a 1.5 hour flight from Batam but there is no easy way to beat passing through the horrendous Jakarta traffic. Best bet is take a DAMRI bus from Jakarat airport direct to Bogor, or better still, hire an airport Silverbird taxi to bring you directly to the Puncak area. The scenery of the Puncak Highlands makes the effort of getting there well worth the effort. http://indonesia.outdoors.googlepages.com and puncaktrek.com.
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