[forwards4all] The island of Belitung.

 

The island of Belitung.

 

The island of Belitung just east of Sumatra. Belitung gets its name from the mining

company Billiton, the remnants of whose past tin-mining scar a good deal of the island's interior.  A more modern blight, palm oil plantations, add to pockets of unpleasantness,

but like Jakarta's McMansions, the whole point of Belitung, for tourists anyway, is the

outward-looking aspect.

 

 

 

 

 

Lonely Planet hasn't even written about Belitung yet. It will soon - the one other group of Westerners we meet there are Australians who live in Bali and escape to Belitung for their holidays and plan to build villas there. This is because there are white-sand beaches on

Belitung, and some spectacular messing about on boats to be done.

 

 

 

 

There are other boats about, but they are all hired by friendly, happy Indonesians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The middle hill looks like Lord Narasimha Swamy .

 

Coloured Rocks.

 

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