Sunday, February 13, 2011

Bintan Island

wasandi - Bintan Island is the largest island of the Riau archipelago digugusan the newly inaugurated as a province, with Tanjung Pinang as the capital of Riau Islands province. Bintan Island is located about 50 miles south of Singapore.
The main economic activity of Bintan island, apart from mining and trade between islands, tourism is probably the biggest contribution to regional income. The northern part of Bintan island, known as Lagoi, provided for tourism, especially for turist - turist Malaysia and Singapore.

Lagoi area is laid out very nicely with the maximum security, to ensure security for the tourist. Structuring this Lagoi like Nusa Dua in Bali, with several 5 star hotels, golf courses and spa. Dihotel imposed currency-star hotel is Singapore or U.S. Dollars. Although Bintan island has no airport, but the access, both kepulau Batam and Singapore is very good.

It is estimated that approximately more than 5,000 people were directly or indirectly working in the tourism sector-Lagoi. They provided settlement, complete with dormitory traditional markets for daily necessities. Diberlakukanpun very stringent provisions, namely: traditional market prices are not allowed to camp higher than the market prices of Tanjung Pinang. This township saebuah like a small town only. For managerial level staff, provided the apartment is in a more orderly environment of the area adjacent to the place of their own work.

Trikora beach located on the eastern island of Bintan. The origin of the name turned out to have Trikora two versions: the first is connected with the words "three corrals" reputedly uttered by the first foreign settlers on the island is a few decades ago. Other versions are more prevalent for many, Trikora name is connected with the Tri Komando Rakyat a "euphoria nasionalistic" is echoed by the late first President Sukarno, in connection with a campaign of confrontation "Crush Malaysia" a few years ago.

Unlike Lagoi, this beach, with the name of any of the selected version, provided for the local turist who are certainly not getting treated like a beach Lagoi. This can be seen, from along the road, the people and fishing villages are found, also from the form of hotels and other infrastructure-infrastructure, such as restaurants and so forth.

What is clear, the means streets of the island of Bintan is very good and quiet.
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