Took a ferry ride with some friends to Bintan, Indonesia a few weekends ago. We stayed at a place called The Shady Shack - which fully lived up to its name.
Run by a married couple, The Shady Shack compound consists of 8 rickety shacks on stilts, 20 ft. from the water. Each shack has a mattress with mosquito net and a bathroom below, complete with cold shower and a toilet that can only be flushed by dumping pails of water into it each time. It costs $6.50 a night - brilliant!
I ate copious amounts of delicious Indonesian food and beer, made a giant bonfire, taught my Kiwi friends what s'mores are, avoided a thunderstorm by taking a boat to a secluded island offshore, told the group of Indians staying next to us to stop singing in the ocean at 3am, drove a motorbike on some "shady" roads (see picture), got a wicked tan, learned a few local words (how are you = abba ka bar), floated on a tube far out in the clear waters of the South China Sea, and survived a night sleeping in a shack that seemed to sway with each light breeze. Whew.
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