{"id":1699,"date":"2010-07-04T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T10:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/petitesbullesdailleurs\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2018-11-05T00:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T23:04:27","slug":"lacher-prise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/lacher-prise-20100704\/","title":{"rendered":"Let go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years later my first trip to Sulawesi<\/a>Here I am back in this part of Indonesia that made such a strong impression on me. First step of this new journey: the small island of Bangka, in the north of Sulawesi.<\/p>\n

Murex Bangka Beach<\/h2>\n
I just spent a week at Bangka Island. A week to dive and forget the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
How can you not let go, in such a beautiful place?<\/p>\n
$\"The$ <\/a><\/p>\n
This is the beach of Murex Bangka Resort<\/a>, the day of my arrival (not to be confused with their other resort<\/a> on Sulawesi itself).<\/p>\n
When I saw the color of the water and the cute beach, I said to myself that I had chosen very well my drop-off point, for a soft acclimatization...<\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
There are a handful of simple wooden bungalows (with air-conditioning, provided that the generator deigns to start), a small diving center that houses the equipment, a compressor to fill the tanks, a large room that serves as a restaurant and, at the back, the barracks where the staff lives.<\/p>\n
$\"My$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Calm and voluptuousness<\/h2>\n
There are only two other customers when I arrive, two very nice young Dutch people.<\/p>\n
The staff is very attentive, they carry my big bag to the bungalow I was assigned, I just have to settle down and enjoy. Blissfully.<\/p>\n
$\"The$ <\/a><\/p>\n
Everything was very easy to get to this point. I had organized things in advance, by exchanging e-mails with Murex.<\/p>\n
A guy was there as expected waiting for me at the airport in Manado, with the inevitable little sign with my name on it. He put me in a pick-up truck for about an hour drive to Surabaya Beach, a black sand beach on the northern tip of Sulawesi.<\/p>\n
The time still to load the supplies for the resort on the boat, to get me in, a half-hour crossing, and here ...<\/p>\n
I'm glad I opted for Murex<\/a>I was very happy with this trip, after various opinions gleaned here and there on divers' and travelers' forums. The dive sites around Bangka are really top (sub pictures will come in a next post), the welcome was great. And it is one of the few dive-centers<\/em> of the corner (the only one?) held exclusively by Indonesians.<\/p>\n
On Bangka itself, there are only two other resorts for the moment, to my knowledge: the Blue Bay Divers<\/a>\u00a0(German management) and the Mimpi Indah<\/a> (where I plan to spend a week at the end of my stay, run by an Indo-Dutch couple).<\/p>\n
We are really far from everything. The cell phone passes, but there is no internet.<\/p>\n
In terms of entertainment and distractions, there is just one lousy TV for those who want to follow the World Cup matches. Magazines and books in Dutch, English, German in the small library. And the staff that turns into an orchestra in the evening!<\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
$\"In$ <\/a><\/p>\n
I would not recommend this place for more than a few days to non-divers, who would quickly turn around on this lovely but tiny beach. There is nothing to do except diving, eating, sleeping...<\/p>\n
In short, the perfect place to let go. I loved it!<\/p>\n
8)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Bangka Island (Sulawesi, Indonesia), on the pretty beach of the Murex Resort, it's total farniente: diving, eating, sleeping. It's bliss!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tpgb_global_settings":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[125],"tags":[26,37,42,106,194],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voyage-sulawesi-indonesie-2010","tag-indonesie","tag-plage","tag-sulawesi","tag-hotel","tag-bangka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bangka-03.jpg?wsr","tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bangka-03.jpg?wsr",700,466,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bangka-03-700x700.jpg?wsr",700,700,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bangka-03-250x250.jpg?wsr",250,250,true],"medium":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bangka-03-390x260.jpg?wsr",390,260,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bangka-03.jpg?wsr",700,466,false],"large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bangka-03.jpg?wsr",700,466,false],"default":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"4 July 2010","get_modified_date":"5 November 2018","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":125,"name":"Indon\u00e9sie : Sulawesi - juillet 2010","slug":"voyage-sulawesi-indonesie-2010","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":130,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Voyage \u00e0 Sulawesi, appel\u00e9e aussi \u00eele de C\u00e9l\u00e8bes.\u00a0Plong\u00e9es \u00e0 Bangka et Lembeh (nord-est). Visite du pays Toraja autour de Rantepao (sud-ouest).","parent":0,"count":15,"filter":"raw","term_order":"35"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":26,"name":"Indon\u00e9sie","slug":"indonesie","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":26,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"Entre oc\u00e9an Indien et oc\u00e9an Pacifique, au c\u0153ur du Triangle de Corail<\/a>, l'Indon\u00e9sie est \u00e0 mes yeux la plus belle des destinations pour la plong\u00e9e sous-marine. Impossible de se lasser de cet archipel immense, s'\u00e9tirant sur trois fuseaux horaires. Je vous emm\u00e8ne explorer ces fonds d'une richesse extraordinaire, de Bali<\/a> \u00e0\u00a0 Sulawesi<\/a>, de Komodo<\/a> \u00e0 Raja Ampat<\/a>, de Born\u00e9o<\/a> aux Moluques<\/a>...","parent":0,"count":182,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":37,"name":"Plage","slug":"plage","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":42,"name":"Sulawesi","slug":"sulawesi","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"L'\u00eele de Sulawesi en Indon\u00e9sie est une source de bonheur in\u00e9puisable pour les voyageurs amoureux de la nature, sur terre comme sous l'eau...","parent":0,"count":44,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":106,"name":"H\u00f4tel","slug":"hotel","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":111,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":28,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":194,"name":"Bangka","slug":"bangka","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":199,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"En Indon\u00e9sie, la jolie petite \u00eele de Bangka est situ\u00e9e dans le Nord-Sulawesi, non loin de Bunaken, Manado et Lembeh. C'est un havre de paix pour plonger loin des foules et explorer des r\u00e9cifs coralliens pleins de vie... Nature, calme et volupt\u00e9. C'est une \u00eele de r\u00eave.","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}]},"author_name":"Corinne Bourbeillon","author_url":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/author\/cbourbeillon\/","author_email":"corinne.pbda@gmail.com","author_website":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/corinne-bourbeillon\/","author_description":"Journaliste, plongeuse et\u00a0photographe sous-marine, Corinne adore faire des bulles avec les\u00a0poissons\u00a0! La beaut\u00e9 du monde et\u00a0de\u00a0l'oc\u00e9an lui ont inspir\u00e9 ce blog. \r\n\r\n En savoir plus<\/a>","author_facebook":"","author_twitter":"","author_instagram":"","author_role":["administrator"],"author_firstname":"Corinne","author_lastname":"Bourbeillon","user_login":"cbourbeillon","author_avatar":"","author_avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7542464a0f3c6a1baf2af7786ad5764b10f9d60908fb1278a969310cf533aedd?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","comment_count":12,"post_likes":0,"post_views":0},"tpgb_post_category":{"category":"Indon\u00e9sie : Sulawesi - juillet 2010<\/a> ","post_tag":"Indon\u00e9sie<\/a> Plage<\/a> Sulawesi<\/a> H\u00f4tel<\/a> Bangka<\/a> "},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}