Belitung - Still An Unspoiled Tropical Delight

We first visited the Indonesian Island of Belitung way back in 2011 crewing on the ketch Atlantia at the start of our cruising lives. We found the natural beauty of the island truly amazing and the local people so amazingly friendly and helpful it really made our stay unforgettable. Despite being a well known holiday hotspot amongst Indonesians, the island wasn’t crowded in the least and back then, we saw very few western tourists at all. We had concerns Belitung may have been DISCOVERED and subsequently spoiled by crowds and over commercialism like Bali, Labuan Bajo and Komodo But after over thirty thousand nautical miles sailed and all these years later, we were delighted to find that wasn’t the case at all, with the Belitung’s relaxed atmosphere and slow pace of life wrapping around us from the time we stepped on the beach.