one of the beaches in pulau burong
There are many small islands scattered around Belitong. Most of them are uninhabited. On my way to visit Pulau Lengkuas, I stopped on one of those small islands called Pulau Burong, which literally can be translated as Bird Island. It got its name because there is a big granite rock in the form of a bird’s head located very close to the island. The rock, which is known as Batu Burong or the bird rock, is become one of Belitong’s icon now.
Many activities can be done in Pulau Burong. For them who like snorkeling, the best spot is under the bird stone, because a lot of beautiful sea creatures live in there. For the active type traveler, they can explore the island through a field full of coconut trees to look for any hidden beaches or unique structured boulders.
For them who just want to stay on the beach and enjoy the quiet surrounding, there are white sandy beaches around the island with many unique stone formations that can be used just for relaxing or lazying around under the sun.
I visited the island neither in week-ends nor holidays, so there were no other visitors except for me and my family on the island, at that time. It was so quiet; a perfect place for contemplating. As for myself, well . . . I enjoyed the luxurious feeling to live in a private island, although it only lasted not more than one hour 😛 😀
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- the bird stone
selalu mantabs..!! 😀
Matur nuwun, Mas 🙂
One word: Paradise 🙂
Clear water, blue skies, green lush trees…beautiful pictures!
With clear water, blue skies, green lush trees, and also nobody around . . . it is paradise 🙂
it seems like a dream…Very nice place
Indeed it is a very nice place.
Bellissime immagini….ma tu abiti da queste parti?
E’ fantastico…..
Grazie. I don’t live there. I have to fly for about an hour from my place to reach the nearest airport, then another half hour by car to the shore, and around 15 minutes by boat to get to the island.
Still, it’s closer than I am;)
Really beautiful place ….
Ha ha ha . . . you’re right. I’m closer to the island than you 😀
This is amazing. I promise myself I’ll go there one day.
Yes, you should go there before it is too crowded by tourists.
sigh. i guess that always happens to beautiful places.
You’re right. It happened almost everywhere.
Beautiful place; hope I can visit. Pulau Lengkuas, Pulau Burung,,,beautiful names, indah sekali.
Not just their names that are beautiful, but the places are also very beautiful.
luar biasa
Loh gak ditanya apa kabar koq sudah ada jawaban luar biasa? 😛
beautiful! what a wonderful luxury to just spend an afternoon there.. you know, rock in Filipino is called “bato” ^^
Seems that there are several similarities in our languages 🙂
It’s a fucking amazing! Doh! Bahasanya menggila.
Hwadoh . . . untung gak ada sensor 😛
fotonya om cris ini loh selalu bikin perasaan gimanaaaa gitu yah hehehe
Lho . . . gimana dong?
is just paradise, sss, sun sand and sea, to make up the owner of these pictures – great Blogger!
Ha ha ha . . . you always praise me too much Sydney 😀
mas Chris kayaknya kok jalan jalan terus ya kerjanya, ke tempat yg cantik cantik
foto fotonya juga selalu cantik !!
Gak jalan-jalan teruslah Mbak, kebetulan aja masih nyimpen stock foto lama nih 🙂
Kereeeeeeennn ^^
Terimakasiiiih . . . 🙂
Paradise!
It is 🙂
True paradise!
Glad that you like it
beautiful beaches …
stunning pictures …
Thank you Wong Cilik. You are very kind.
Very nice pictures, Chris! But then you are in the heart of things when it comes to finding motives for photography.
Thank you Seenorway. It is a pleasure to have you visit my blog.
Pure pleasure! It woke to life some memories I have from a visit to Christmas Island ages ago!
I’m not talking abour the H-bomb Christmas Isl., but the little speck of dirt on the map lying 400 miles southwest of the Sunda straits. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures from that trip ‘caus at the time I was working with an 8 mm movie camera that is practically a museum article today. You can’t even find projectors that may run such films.
It is a big loss if there are no such projectors that can run your films, even bigger loss if there are no other devices which can be used to convert your work into something that can run in modern devices.
I rember I succeeded in converting some of these films to a VHS-tape, bnut now the problem has moved: No more VHS-machines 🙂
I think you can still find what so called VHS-machine in antique stores, or if you make any trip to Asia. Once you find it, you have to convert all of your work to CD or DVD at once. Hope that CD or DVD machine will last long 🙂
as you probasbly know, they’re already on the way out. Now it’s ‘blueray’, but – Adam was never in ‘Paradise’ for a very long time. 🙂 Today the techniques seem to change so fast that nothing may be preserved for more than 25 years?
Ha ha ha . . . you are right. But at our age, 25 years ahead will seems like eternity. Am I right? 🙂
I should think so! At the present I’m passsing a milestone with a ’76’ -mark on the top 😀
😀 😀
We had our first snow of the season today, so these pictures are even more tempting. It looks like there’s little or no human-caused harm there – is that right? I agree with you – nobody else being around really makes it the paradise!
You’re right Sid. At least it was no human-caused harm found when I visited the island.
Do you know, it’s somehow funny, how people in the snowing country want to go to the tropics, while people here want to experience the snow-falling condition 🙂
The grass is always greener… Another of my blogging friends mentioned how she hadn’t ever seen frost – I replied that I didn’t know whether to tell her to count her blessings or to feel sad for her!
Yup, you’re right. It always happened everywhere that the grass is always greener on the other side 🙂
How did this beach happen to be so unoccupied? It looks like paradise. Great photos!
On week-end and public holidays, the beach will be fully occupied by visitors. I intentionally chose to be there on week-days so I could listen to nature whispers instead of noise made by other visitors 🙂
Well you achieved your goal. I’d love to be one of the lovely visitors that make noise on the week-ends, but like you, I would prefer the week-days. What beauty! Thanks for sharing! Marsha 🙂
My pleasure, Marsha 🙂
selalu terpesona dg cepratannya apalagi lihat gulungan awannya.
Ah Mbak Mintarsih bisa aja nih. Terimakasih Mbak.
Dear Friend.
Your blog is nominated for THE BLOG OF THE YEAR award and to VERY INSPIRING BLOGGER AWARD simultaneously. I hope you will accept it
Best regard and recpect,
Wanda ALE KSIĄZKI / AND YET THE BOOKS
See: http://wandamichalakdomkuncewiczow.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/my-top-list/
Wow . . . many thanks for nominating me on the two awards simultnaeously. Now I have many homeworks to do 😛
I worked very hard indeed but it was an occasion to express my sympathy and admiration 🙂 🙂
Yup you’re right. Thank you, and I’ll try to do my best 🙂
Amazing place!!!
Yup, it is really amazing . . .
It is hard to believe a place so beautiful exists. Thank you for sharing.
I think you have to believe because it is really exists 🙂
I came back to look at the rocks–love them! The smooth shapes and that you went there when it was free of other visitors. Lucky you!
I love the nature, especially the rock formation in that island, too. And yes, I was quite lucky to be in there without any other visitors 🙂
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Thank you, JK 🙂