Batam City Tour [Day 3]

My last day on Batam didn't really trip much. We only visited Barelang Bridge. It took a quite long distance to be there from my hotel and should leave immediately to the airport. 

This Barelang Bridge is the icon of Batam City. This beautiful bridge connects three big islands which are Batam - Rempang - Galang, mentioned as it's name BARELANG. Some people also mention it as "Jembatan Habibie" because he was the one who initiate the establishment of this bridge. 

ATTENTION !

If you are planning to go to Batam for the near future, please concern to your transportation choice. There are some of options you can choose such as Taxi, Bus or online taxi application. I honestly never took any buses but I genuinely felt that Taxi was a bit expensive. Mostly I picked online application to order transportation BUT this choice is actually not that recommended as well. There were some polemic happened at Batam between official taxi company and online transportation and the government still assigned online transportation as illegal transportation. So when I got to pick that choice, the driver usually asked to pretend that we know each other to disguise people that we rent an online car. This is my honest experience that I feel I need to share to help you choosing the option wisely. 

Overall, I was completely having fun in Batam, all my family liked the city may be have plan to be back. I will back with another traveling article to share. I hope you like it. 


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Batam City Tour [Day 2]

 

On the next day I spent my morning at the hotel because I was left by my mom and my sister. They went hunting for a secondhand imported stuffs. So me and my nieces and nephews took a little walk around the hotel to see the surroundings. What's funny I felt from Batam was unlike any other tourism city, you can rarely find pedestrians. Local people said that it's very rare for people to take a walk. Even at a walking distance, they prefer to ride a motorcycle. No wonder when we walked around that morning, we felt many people strangely starred at us, I don't know may be it's funny for them. Hahahaha

Anyway, after that awkward morning, we went to have lunch on Bengkong area. My second day was all about seafood hunting. We went to famous seafood resto which was Golden Prawn 933. 

 

At the front door we already greeted by lively sea creature from shrimp, prawn, crab, gong gong. We could choose our menu there. 

    

A light breeze and nice view were Golden Prawn's fascination. It's decorations was condensed with old Chinese which wood ornament and colorful curtain in typical. Also what made it unique, this resto built above water so we could directly see the fish were being caught. 

Their signature menu were Crab, Squid, Gong-gong (their local food, i've mentioned it on my last post), kale, fish, shrimp, dessert and bunch of rice. Believe us those plenty food were perfectly moved to our tummy. Yummy!

After lunch, we visited their souvenir shop called Golden Tourist Shop. You could buy unique handy craft here. There's a lot of unique, hand made stuffs you could get with relatively cheap price. Most of them were made from wood and crafted with cute form. 

 

If you need snacks to bring home, don't forget to come to Yong Heng Food Trading. The distance was not very far from Golden Prawn. This shop was full of various favor and shape of chips. Start from ordinary until extraordinary shape. 

Last stop for dinner was Harbour Bay Seafood Resto. This place is the largest outdoor destination to have a fresh seafood party. Harbour Bay is located at Jodoh area. This place was open from 10 AM to 10 PM. It's attraction was we can see beautiful sunset while enjoying our food. 

For the food we recommended were Ayam Goreng Saus Lemon, Soup Asparagus Daging Kepiting and Gong-gong (already become the favorite menu.

When the night came, the light would turn on and the atmosphere became so romantic here.

Harbour Bay became our last stop before left back to hotel. I will let you know my last day exploring Batam on my next post.  See you again!

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Batam City Tour [Day 1]

On the beginning of November I spent my weekend with my family to visit Batam city. Batam is famous with its seafood so check out my story when traveling to Batam and visited these beautiful places. 

After traveled for about 1 hours 45 minutes flight, finally I landed on Hang Nadim International Airport. We straightly went to our Hotel to check in, unpacked some stuffs and took a brief rest. We stayed at Harmoni One Hotel & Convention Centre, it was big four stars Hotel with complete and nice facility. Harmoni One Hotel was located on the city center so it's easy for us to go to many places. 

 

At Harmoni One Hotel

After took a short rest at the hotel, we went to Nagoya, there were so many shopping centers there. We spent for about two hours there to look around. Nagoya Hill was one of the place that we hit, it's basically similar to most of the malls in Jakarta. 

Local people there said that the absolute must buy item from Batam is CHOCOLATE! Fortunately there were so many chocolate stores near Nagoya, some people also said that you could find it near hotel or malls with typical chocolate stacks inside their stores. Plenty kinds of chocolate such as Camior, Toblerone and other imported chocolate available there, even if you need the big one. The price was also reasonable.

I am a big fan of chocolate. I shopped so many imported chocolate, even the one that I can get on Jakarta but in Batam the price was far cheaper. Here's some of the chocolate and other stuffs that I shopped.

I shopped that many and only spent IDR 360K! 

Batam is all about seafood destination. We stopped by to one place to have dinner after excitedly explore Nagoya, which is Windsor Foodcourt, also located at Nagoya. We only took a little walk from Nagoya Hill to reach Windsor Foodcourt. Here, you could have dinner under the dim stars.

I really like Kapis Stim, a kind of scallop but had a really big size. 

Compared to other seafood resto in Batam (I'll let you know on my next post), Windsor Foodcourt actually was the most expensive resto that we visit so far in Batam. But I wasn't disappointed with it's tastiness, it's still worth the price. 

 

KAPIS STIM. This was so nice, believe me!

We spent the rest of our night there and directly went to hotel after that. I'll tell you another day we enjoyed in Batam on my next post. See ya!


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