Tanjung Pinang is the main town of Bintan Island which is more than double the size of Singapore Island as testified by the time taken to travel by road from the town to the Bintan Beach Resorts to the north(45mins away from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal) is nearly two hours, like driving from AMKio to Kulai town, Johore.<\/p>\n
Tanjung Pinang is situated at the entrance of a large inland bay with opposite Senggarang, a distance of probably five times the length of the old Merdeka Bridge across the Rochore-Kallang River bay and takes less than twenty minutes by motorised sampan between each landing point.<\/p>\n
Tanjung Pinang town-area is bordered like Rochore Road-Stamford Road\/Plaza Singapura-Shaw Towers(Beach Road) with shopkeepers mostly Indon Teochews.<\/p>\n
Senggarang is a fishing village developed into a mini-resort by mid-2008 and frequented by inter-islanders, and since the opening of the airport seventy minutes away from Tg Pinang town, in early 2009, the place has attracted visitors from Kalimantan(Banjermasin 65mins), Java(Jakarta 85mins), Sumatera(Medan 70mins), Sulawesi(Makassar 95mins)<\/p>\n
DEPARTURE – Saturday July 16 at 10.20am from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal (Bus No.35 from<\/p>\n
Bedok Interchange or Tanah Merah MRT Bustop<\/p>\n
Kindly be present by 9.30am to buy two-way ferry tickets $50<\/p>\n
Not more than fifty persons travel to Tg Pinang daily with ferry-boat<\/p>\n
capacity of more than eighty passengers<\/p>\n
RETURN – Sunday July 17 at 1.30pm(Indon time, Spore 2.30pm)<\/p>\n
EXPENDITURE – Pay-as-you-travel mode. Besides fare for ferry ticket, a further $100 expense(680,000 <\/p>\n
rupiahs) is adequate. Hotel room-rates(Hotel Melia) not more than 350,000rph(twin<\/p>\n
sharing)<\/p>\n
TRAVEL CONFIRMATION – Members are required to RE-CONFIRMED their availabilty to travel by<\/p>\n
contacting FRISNA at the LATEST 1pm on Friday July 15, in order that Frisna<\/p>\n
subsequently can call-up for replacements, other members on the<\/p>\n
Reservations List, if any.<\/p>\n
GROUP SIZE – Fourteen persons, excluding two EOs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tanjung Pinang is the main town of Bintan Island which is more than double the size of Singapore Island as testified by the time taken to travel by road from the town to the Bintan Beach Resorts to the north(45mins away from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal) is nearly two hours, like driving from AMKio … Continue reading “Tanjung Pinang\/Senggarang Free&Easy Tour, Sat\/ Sun 16, 17, 2011”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}