——— last vacay ☁

Last holiday, I went to Bangka on Tuesday, 19 December 2017. I went to Bangka with my uncle, my auntie, and my cousins. I didn’t go with my parents because they’re not interested. I went there by using airplane. Unfortunately, there’s only one flight to Bangka from Bandung and the flight is on 7.10 p.m. On the way to the airport, there was a lot of traffic that made us stressed, because we were afraid we will miss our flight, but luckily, we arrived before the plane took off. After we checked in at the airline desk, we went through the security, and we handed over our luggage to the airport officer. Then we went to the waiting room. It turned out that our plane was delayed for about a half an hour. We took off at around 9 p.m.

We arrived at Depati Amir Airport at around 10 p.m. The flight was rough because off the weather, but I was doing fine in the plane. I didn’t felt nauseous or dizzy at all, I just felt a little pain in my ear that I usually suffer whenever I ride a plane. Then we picked up our luggage, and went to the nearest hotel to take a rest.

            The next day, after we had a breakfast and washed ourselves, we moved to a resort in Sungailiat and it took about an hour to go there because it was far away from Pangkal Pinang, but fortunately there wasn’t any traffic at all, unlikely in Bandung. On the way to the resort, we stopped in some beaches and then we had our lunch in one of a seafood restaurant there. Actually, it was hard for me to eat there because I don’t really into seafood and there wasn’t a lot of fast food restaurant. And, there’s no minimarket like Alfamart and Indomaret at all because the government forbid that. They said the existence of minimarket like that made the citizens’ business bankrupt.

            After the long ride, we arrived at Parai Beach Resort. The resort was huge, but it was a little bit creepy because it’s an old resort. There was a private beach in the resort but unfortunately we couldn’t play in the beach because of the high waves.

            There was a few of trouble in the resort that made us disappointed, like the water heater suddenly stopped working, even some of the bed there looked like it hasn’t been cleaned yet by the maid. So we decided to move to a hotel in the city on the next day.

            We finally checked out from the resort. Actually, we already booked it for 3 days but the service really disappointing, so we canceled it. So we went back to Pangkal Pinang and booked 3 rooms for 2 days at Aston Soll Marina Hotel. Then we rest for a few hours. My cousins and I decided to swimming in the hotel swimming pool. The water was very cold, I couldn’t bear it so I just played there for around 15 minutes because I will sneeze non-stop if I felt cold. On the night, I went to a café to have a light dinner because I already ate a cup of noodle in the hotel.

            The next day, we didn’t go anywhere because the weather was worst, I was so frustrated because I couldn’t do any water sports at all, and I failed to go snorkeling. So we just relaxed on the hotel’s room and only went outside at lunch.

When the afternoon came, my uncle invited my cousins and I to go to eat durian. But, I refused it because I couldn’t stand with the smell of durian. It really made me want to throw up, so I decided I’ll just stayed in the hotel.

            On the last day, we checked out from the hotel at around 10 p.m. Then we went to Koba. We had lunch at some of the Koba’s noodle restaurant. I thought the noodle will taste fine, but it’s really didn’t suit my taste at all! The water felt like a fish, and I already told you already that I’m not into seafood, I can say it was the worst thing I ate in Bangka. So I didn’t continued to eat that thing, since it made me felt nausea. After we had the worst lunch (for me) ever, we went to Kaolin Lake. It has a clean white sand, and the color of the water is bright blue and green. Kaolin Lake was once a mining area, then the people abandoned it. Even though it looks beautiful, the water contains dangerous substance so we shouldn’t went to the water at all.

After we looked at the great scenery, we bought souvenirs for other relatives in Bandung. The famous souvenirs there are snacks, such as snacks that was made from fish, shrimp, squid, and other sea food. We bought pempek from there too!

It was almost 5 p.m. when we arrived at the airport. We ate at the café in the airport to kill times, then we waited on the waiting room after we checked in.

The waiting room was so crowded, there were a lot of people there! We were having a hard times to find an empty seats for us, but happily, we finally found some empty seats. The flight was delayed for around 15 minutes (better than before), we took off at 8.30 p.m.

We finally arrived safely in Bandung at 9.20 p.m. I was so tired (even though I didn’t do anything at all), and honestly I’m a little bit disappointed with this trip because of the rough weather and high waves that made us couldn’t played anything in the sea.

But I was okay with that, at least I didn’t stayed at home!