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Indonesia - Sabang Island Tour during CoVid
When sailors arrived in Sabang in March 2020 to attend the 2020 Sabang Marine Festival, they were told that this year the Festival was postponed until September (insisting it was not cancelled). Sailors were then strongly encouraged to leave the area as CoVid shut down was implemented. A few sailors planned to sail to Malaysia but before they had a chance to depart, Malaysia as well as Thailand closed their borders so the only possible option was to stay in Sabang. After an inordinately long 3-months of confinement onboard, they were finally permitted to freely circulate ashore and reminded to keep social distancing & wearing masks in close-proximity. Sabang, being an island, is isolated from the mainland because the local airport is too small for regular flights and only one ferry-line operates. Only a few suspected CoVid cases turned out to not being infected at all so the local population luckily does not have to strictly follow the questionable (as they are by many online) draconian social distancing rules. The sailors in July finally had a chance to discover the points of interest around Sabang as you see in this short video. Filmed 9 July 2020. As nearby borders are still being shut down, will the sailors be still stranded here in September, for the postponed Festival? :)

