We did it! We sailed through Indonesia with the Wonderful Sail 2 Indonesia rally over 3+ months. It was quite the experience, and the first time we’ve visited such an extremely different culture from ours. Summary of Our Time in Indonesia Days Starry Horizons Spent in Indonesia: 103 Days David and I Spent in Indonesia:…
After checking out the small island on Benan in the Lingga group, we took off to sail north to our last island of Indonesia: Bintan. There are two large islands in the north of the Riau group; Batam and Bintan. The stop for the Wonderful Sail 2 Indonesia Rally was actually two stops: the first…
Finally, our last stop in Lingga was the small island of Benan. After a 5 nm sail, we had finally caught up with the rally! Benan is a small and delightful fishing village. It may have been the smallest village for a rally stop. Rally Welcome Ceremony I attended the Welcome Ceremony which was on…
The NEXT BIG THING that we were very excited about was crossing the equator with our friends and (former) pollywogs Carlos and Linda on Mirniy Okean. After two nights at sea, we met up with Mirniy at an island called Kongka Besar, just a few miles south of the equator. We stayed two nights and…
Our orangutan tour in Kumai was amazing, but the river is extremely dirty and crocodile invested, so as soon as we returned from our trip, we hightailed it out of there. We were still behind the Wonderful Sail 2 Indonesia Rally, but instead of meeting up with the rally in Bangka we made our stop…
After a two-night sail from Bali, we anchored Starry Horizons in the Kumai River. Immediately we met Majid, who approached on a small ski boat to say hello. I had already been in contact with his wife, Leisa, who runs one of the tour companies for the popular Indonesian Orangutan klotok tours in the river. We…
After a few nights in Lombok, provisioning and having laundry done through the marina, we took off on September 28th for a quick, 6-hour sail to the island of Bali! You Need to Know Just like Tahiti and Bora Bora, Bali is not a country, it is an island. Bali is a major holiday destination…
Indonesia seems to be hitting the cruisers rather hard. While many have come down with occasional cases of “Bali belly”, others have had more serious issues. I woke up one morning in Pasarwajo with some troubling symptoms – not debilitating, but concerning. The first thing we did was WebMD the symptoms, and I was feeling…