Batam Beach Tourism: the Top Five

Coast of Batam Island already known to the world. White beaches and cleans and has a beautiful ocean view. Travel nuanced culinary seafood to make the visitors always want to come back again.

Metropolitan city of Batam

Batam is the industrial area in Riau Archipelago. Batam’s Metropolitan Regions itself, is a combination of three islands linked by a bridge. This bridge is identified by name Barelang Bridge. Three islands itself is consist of Batam Island, Galang Island and the island of Rempang.
Due to this island lay in international crossings, natural Batam visited by tourists, both domestic tourists and foreign tourists. Its natural beauty is also enlivened by a number of small islands is another reason why the beaches of Batam is worth to visit.

Various Options Coast Tourism

As a beautiful area that has three large islands and a number of 345 small islands, beaches Batam have its own charm. Here are the 5 most famous Batam Beaches you can visit



1. Melur beach

Melur beach is located on the island shore, just after the Bridge Barelang no V. As one of the Batam Island attractions, Melur beaches have attract many visit because of its white sand and panoramic sea is wide, clean and pure. This sea shore is very suitable and convenient for those of you who do vacation in Batam or who are tired with the hustle and bustle for a job or bustle of the city atmosphere.

Melur beach’s sea is blue; sitting under palm tree will make you feel soothing. For those who love to do a culinary tour on the beach are available a variety of seafood, from crab, cuttlefish, and some types of fish that are ready devoured with various preparations.

Melur beach is on the west side of the island of Galang Baru. From Batam, to arrive on the island of Galang Baru, past the other five islands (P. Tonton, Nipah P., P. Setoko, Rempang P., and P. Galang).

2. Sekilak Beach

Sekilak beach is one of the resorts in Batam seaside. With views of the beach and various beach games that available in Sekilak offering the natural beauty of Batam Island
Sekilak beach often visited by visitors who has hobby of fishing, usually late afternoon / evening, they even hold a camper, depending on the condition of tidal wave. At the sea side are also available Water Sports, the types of water sports available are canoe / kayaking, water bicycle, dragon boats and so forth.

3. Nongsa Beach

Nongsa beach, a white sandy beach and clear water is located in the Northeast of Batam. The name of this beach is taken based on the Malay name of a character that first developed this coastal region. The beach is better known as "Old Nongsa" by the local community.

The beach is a tourist destination attraction for local and foreign tourists who come there just to enjoy a holiday or to enjoy its natural beauty. The travelers can watch the sunset on this beach. And at night, you will be presented with a view of the lights sparkling skyscraper buildings that emanated from our neighboring countries, Singapore.

4. Marina Batam Beach

Beach Marina, not only you will get scenic beauty, but also a calm sea waves will cause a relaxed atmosphere while swimming, sand play, and perform a variety of water activities.

Location Attractions Marina Beach which is located in Tanjung Riau - Sekupang has advantages such as Marina Beach area was built with the concept development of a seaside town (water front city). Marine tourism attractions on offer: Banana Boat, Parasailing, Jet-sky, etc.

5. Tanjung Bemban Beach

The beach promontory Tanjung Bemban located on the north coast of Batu Besar village. This beach is one of three developed beach by Batam city government to promote the Visit Batam 2010. Two other beaches are the Melur beaches and coastal bay fish-eye.

On the Tanjung Bemban you can feel the beach breeze while enjoying a young coconut. At high tides, you can swim in the sea which is crystal clear. Hungry? There is beachfront restaurant that serves seafood cuisine. Fish, squid, shrimp, bark, everything is guaranteed fresh. One mile off the coast there is a large rock named Big Stone. It is said that this is the origin of the name of a Batu Besar. From the Tanjung Bemban beach we also could look the island of Bintan and some part of Malaysia’s mainland.

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Sun, Beach and Fun in Batam

This time, it was Batam. Located about 20 km south of Singapore, Batam island is very much similar to Bintan which we had visited last year. Lush greenery, plenty of 'sea' to 'see', sun, beaches and sand. Nothing less to expect from this truly beautiful island in Indonesia.

Our population doubled this time - we were a group of (lucky?) 13 restless souls, just waiting to get our asses out of our labs and a few hundred kms away from research. And get off we did, in style :). Merry-ly taking the ferry ride from Tanjong Pagar, we made for Batam on Feb the 15th, the start of Chinese New year hols. The ferry ride is a most enjoyable experience - apart from being hot due to the sun, the ride is actually pretty Cool :). Watching the busy Singapore skyline (and along with it, all memories of research fading into the distance.. seriously, no feeling could be better !

KTM resorts - thats where we stayed. Beautiful place. No testimonial would be enough to do justice to the five-star royal treatment we got there. Just - dont try to expand the name K-T-M :). Since the exchange rate was pretty high, we were millionaires by the time we reached, and immediately set about blasting off every inch of currency that we had stored up.

Water sports are one of the major attractions in Batam. Para-sailing, Jet-skiiing, Banana-boating and Kayaking - these were the items on the menu. Needless to say, we ordered all :). The para-sailing was a first for me- being slightly afraid of heights, I never thought I'd pull(rather, fly) it off, but it turned out to be an awesome experience with a sufficient amount of 'high' to it ! :). After sufficiently wetting ourselves (no pun intended ;) ) on all the rides, we decided to call it a day (er.. at 4 pm in the evening) and go around city-seeing a bit. The Barelang bridge was 'bery bery laang', and actually a let-down.. there was nothing to do there except to.. er.. watch it :). Tired of letdowns, we retired to our beautiful villas.

Needless to say, the high-night was one of the high-lights of the trip. Dumb-C was called for. Despite being 'dumb', we were pretty noisy out there, mind you :). 3 hours and a few kilos of junk food later, we made for the beach, and wasted away sometime until we decided to call it a.. thats right.. night. Next day, after refilling ourselves with enough food for a few days, we set out to Nongsa beach.

Nongsa is one of those paradises on earth called a beautiful beach. Thirteen hot people out there (yea yea, hot cos of the sun ;) ) - we 1st cooled ourselves in the inviting blue waters. Few hundred pics and some desperate attempts at swimming and stunt-making. A pitiable round of volley-ball was followed by a coconut break, and even more pitiable gaming :). Truly, I have never had enough of sea, sand and sun in my life. Finally when we'd all turned different bright shades of crimson, we decided to call it quits and return to the city. BCS mall was our final stand - our shopping consisted of an incredible mixture of tatooing, food, and sun-glasses ! Loads of them ! Finally we made a desperate rush for the resort and then the ferry terminal.

The night trip back on the ferry is a beautiful experience too. An hour or so later, we were thirteen tired but satisfied souls, cribbing about what lay ahead for us in our boring labs the next day.

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