we're currently heading back to our villa it
is our very last day here in belitung and we're currently at lebong island if you haven't seen
my where to stay video in belitung guys i will link it right above here somewhere, let's go which side
it always is on but i want to share with you my 12 things that you guys must know before coming
to belitung because after spending four days here and being that it is my first time in
belitung i wanted to share my experience what i learned on this trip and so that
you guys can get a head start in front of me so the very first thing you guys need to know
is that when you're flying into belitung it is a very small airport i did not expect that it was
only a single airplane landing on one runway and we just walked out on the tarmac and picked
up our bags there was only one baggage claim and it was just a small room basically, now while we're
on the topic of airports another thing i learned on this trip is that this used to be a really
popular with malaysian tourists because there's a very how do i say this, the similar malay culture
here in belitung as well so you would get a lot of tourists prior to covid but right
now it's just it's very empty but the place is beautiful we've had such an amazing time
here and hopefully the tourism will recover here and after seeing a few of my videos hopefully
that'll persuade you guys as well to come visit this beautiful island or collection of islands
actually because the island hopping adventure here in belitung was just stunning one of
my favorite activities here to do the second thing you guys need to know is that when we were
driving from the airport there was no traffic in fact driving around the whole island in a rental
car was by far the easiest thing i've ever done in bali there's just traffic traffic traffic, here
it's just empty roads it's amazing and the road conditions in fact are pretty good we drove down
to the southern part of belitung and only about 20% of the roads were under construction because
they're repaving the roads but overall the roads are just really smooth really new and a great
place to drive around the island as well and the third thing, now the third thing you guys should
know is that there is no grab there's actually - only gojek, kintanya you can probably help me
with this
- i heard if you want to go to the island kelayang? no there is no gojek pickup pick up service
there, so you have to either save the driver's - number or you ask somebody to just pick you up
from the hotel perhaps
- so yeah if you guys want to get around the island i highly recommend you guys
use gojek for once and then save the guy's number but thankfully fairfield marriott that was
hosting us at the time was very helpful in helping us secure our rental car and that cost
IDR 250k a day, another one is that there's actually no malls no movie theaters just small little
outlet stores here in belitung so don't expect to go shopping like you would in jakarta or even
bali for that matter it's just very local warungs so there's no big development here on the island
and even if you're looking now to go get like popular fast foods so another thing on the list
is that there's only kfc yeah? kfc and A&W yeah so those are the two only like fast
food chains here on the island so don't expect to get be getting any mcdonald's here on the
island gojek to your hotel while we're on the topic of warungs and mcdonald's
as well don't expect to find any indomaret or alfamart here in belitung so because there's
they haven't really introduced big brand stores or malls and out and these big huge companies
they're keeping it very local with the warongs so there can be no alfamart, no indomaret and so
number six on the list there is no bule prices i was very shocked and very surprised to know that
bule prices is something you always have to worry about when traveling around no matter what
country you're in like if you're going to thailand if you're going to philippines no matter what
country there's always going to be 400 prices that's something you always have to worry about
when traveling around the world if you don't speak the local language they're going to charge you
a foreign price obviously but belitung that is not the case me rhett and claire were on our way to southern part of belitung and we stopped at warong and we booked we bought some drinks
basically and i asked her i asked the lady i said berapa itu? and she she said to me oh it was enam ribu
and that's IDR 6k in Indonesian and i was actually shocked because if i went to the alfamart or
indomaret in bali that drink would have cost me like IDR 7 or IDR 8k so she even gave me a cheaper
price which i was really shocked about so that that kind of confirmed everything that there's
no bule prices and number seven guys the people are the friendliest here in belitung and kintania
can attest to this the indonesians here in belitung are some of the friendliest bunch that we
have met here while traveling throughout Indonesia for the past several months i cannot say say
more about that, me rhett and claire stopped on the way at a like a local bar i'm sure you would
have seen this by now already in my earlier videos and we basically got some ayam goreng and
some thai tea and like the total bill came out to like i want to say over 100k IDR and the lady was
just so friendly so so nice to us smiling taking pictures with us and she was like oh discount
discount and she was trying to give it to us for 50k she was literally trying to cut the price in
half by 50% and we're just like no no please don't worry about it and yeah that's just that
just shows how friendly the people are here on the island everybody's smiling everybody's like
just showing their generosity for us coming to visit belitung so i must say big thumbs up
to this island so number eight on the list guys there's literally enough corners
here we saw maybe one couple here the entire time here like four or five days in belitung and
yeah only one foreign couple here that we saw besides us besides all of us here and yeah
so expect to but i think that's just because of covid or even the fact that not many like
vloggers or tourists come to show off this beautiful island because it's it's so gorgeous
and yeah more of you guys need to come here absolutely, now if you guys aren't renting a car
you guys are probably going to end up renting a motorbike scooter and we actually had to ask
fairfield marriott for help on this matter but they just referred us literally to somebody's
house literally across the street and so you guys will see that in kintania's video i'll link it
above we literally straight walked into somebody's house their front door and asked to use their bike
and you know usually like in surabaya for example when we went to surabaya we needed five forms of id
to rent the bike she was just like ah don't worry about it you're only renting it for two hours
she's just like just take the bike bring it back and uh we rented it for 50k for two hours if you
wanted to rent for an entire day was gonna be 75k but you do need to fill up your own gas though
so the tank was empty and we filled it up for like when you stop at a warong to fill up those like
one litre bottles that you see like those vodka bottles you see in bali well in bali it costs
10k for one of those bottles of gas here on the belitung island it costs only 9k so a bit
cheaper if you are paying for gas here but yeah really actually really easy and just shows just
shows off how friendly the people are they're just like yeah here take my bike bring it back
and even someone that we were talking to said that you could just literally leave your
key your key in the car and or in the bike and nobody's going to steal it like there apparently
there's like no crime here now one thing you guys will notice when driving around the island is
the homes, the homes i have to say i was really shocked the homes are only one story and the
people actually take really good care of them you see these beautiful gardens beautiful
flowers in front of the homes and they're all like different little colors like yellow
pink all these pastel colors really beautiful and we were told that people really don't put
a lot of money into their homes which is why most of them are one-story houses houses and they
they actually spend most of their money on like car jewelry but not real in their houses
the houses overall look really beautiful as you're driving yeah they're very unique as as
you're driving down down the roads on the island and the very last two things that i need to
mention to you guys when you're coming to belitung is that the islands oh my gosh
the islands if you guys haven't seen the island hopping video i will link it above for you guys
it looks something straight out of the maldives if i didn't tell you we were in indonesia
that's where you would have thought we've been the islands are gorgeous and we were the
only ones literally on the islands while we were island hopping and maybe that is because
of covid or just the lack of tourism here but wow the islands are beautiful when we
finished the island hopping tour we stopped off at a warong an island and the food was just so so good if you're coming here you must try the seafood because just that's just part of the local
industry here is fishing and the seafood is just so good, calamari no matter where i stopped off
the calamari calamari was just amazing and the very last thing is that if you're a foreigner
watching this video you're gonna be thinking how what is the language barrier like here in Belitung and from my experience if you're staying at a place like marriott fairfield marriott
those the staff are gonna be speaking english for me me and kintania were basically just
exploring the island a few times and so lucky enough for me i had her to translate but there
were a few times where i was kind of shocked that some of the locals actually can communicate limitedly just with a with a few basic english communication skills that will get
you far enough to like order drinks order food if you're at a cafe or a restaurant if you're at a
big hotel chain like the marriott then obviously they're going to speak english but don't expect
him to speak english if you're visiting like a warong on the island there so you should learn
just a little bit of indonesian as you're traveling the island just so
that you can order like aku mau nasi goreng special or just like the numbers at least so
you can you know how to pay or ask berapa itu? how much is this and all that so it goes a long
way and it gives them a smile to know that you're trying to speak Indonesian with them as well so
yeah there's a bit of a language barrier but uh and enough to work that you can communicate with
them and google translate is always gonna be your best friend so hope that gave you guys some
insight as to what it's like here in belitung highly recommend you guys visit this place because
three four days that we've been staying here we were just shocked that we have never heard
of this place we had never visited this place at least for me, kitania has probably heard of
it and most of you Indonesians have probably heard of belitung as well but yeah you guys
definitely need to check out this island for those of you that always go into bali
come to belitung and have a nice little four or five day vacation here so if you
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