The Best Places to Visit After the Corona Virus Pandemic Goes

A number of people certainly can not stand to go away after the corona virus disappears. There are many who want to immediately recreation with family or friends. Go to the beach, to the mountains, to the water park or to a number of other famous tourist attractions. But are those places really the best visited after a haunting corona?

Then where should we go after the corona virus disappears..? Consider the following review. Perhaps it can remind you to travel anywhere after covid-19 did not exist.

Spying on Malay Tourism Heritage

For Karimun people, especially in District Kundur certainly no stranger to " Batu Limau " tourist attraction. Batu Limau ( Limau Stone) is famous with various types of rocks that supposedly contain magic. Uniquely, the rocks resemble various shapes.

Yes, in Batu Limau which is located in Batu Limau Village, Ungar Sub-district, Karimun Regency there are at least six famous rocks. The name kind of the stones, among others; Stones that resembling male and female genitalia, Bilik Stones (in Malay meaning room), Ship's Stone, Lime stone, Keris Stone, Bridal stone and many others.

To reach Batu Limau attractions, tourist from outside Kundur Island first transit in Tanjungbatu, then to the pancung boat which is devoted to the Port of Alai and Sungai Buluh. It takes about 10 minutes at a rate of Rupiahs 5 thousand per persons.

Its perfect alternative to spend your holiday and relax with family and friends. Beach panoramas filled with rocks with a view of the vast ocean directly adjacent to the Island Penyalai, Indra Giri Hilir District (Riau Mainland), visitors will be treated to fishing activities that go to sea around Limau Limt water.

Story behind Limau Stones 

How is the fastest way to Batam Island...?

Batam Maps

The capital of Riau archipelago in Bintan island, but for business purposes entrepreneurs more interested in coming to Batam. In this area was actually enacted three free trade zone covering Batam - Bintan - Karimun. In particular on the island of Batam ferry port selection is pretty much it, it would be quite difficult to choose the port where the ferry is best that you have to go the closest to your hotel in Batam, either from Singapore or Malaysia and otherwise. Whether you are a businessperson who pressed for time or a tourist who wants to relax, you'll want to choose a point of arrival or departure is not too far from your hotel. To help you choose the best ferry port for your trip, here's a quick guide to five major ports in Batam..........

Mall in Batam Island

List of shopping Mall in Batam Island :

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  Mega Mall, Batam Centre is located in Batam Central Bussines District. Could be reach directly from Batam Centre Ferry Terminal. Here You can buy what ever you want before start touring around this island. Buying clothing is one of the cheapest means of shopping here. The branded goods here is reasonable cheap. You will find that this is one of reason why Singapore tourist often spend their money for shopping in Batam.
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  Nagoya Hill. At about 15 Minutes from Batam Centre Ferry Terminal. For now is the biggest shopping mall in Batam and hosted by Matahari Departemental Store. You also can find Batam typical food named Cake Villa in front of Nagoya Hill. The brand is Cake Pisang Villa.

• Panbill Mall, is one of mall that located in Muka Kuning near industrial area Batamindo Industrial Park. This the place where workers of several industri di Batamindo to shop for. You can find clothes, shoes, women accessories, nad ofcourse foods.
• Lucky Plaza is the largest mall for mobile phone in Batam Island. 
• Top 100 Penuin, located near after Lucky Plaza is a mall with specialist selling food and souvenirs in Batam. You will find Singapore chocolate, Malaysian crackers and others.
• Top 100 batuaji, same with Top 100 Mall  Penuin which located in shouth of Batam island. You can find the similar product here. After touring around this mall, you can fresh your body with take a shower or go swimming in the pool name Water Boom. But don't be surprised if here is very crowded during holiday
• Kepri Mall, is the newest and also one of the biggest mall that locate in Batam Centre not far from Mega Mall. 

Soft Opening Top 100 Tembesi in Batuaji

Batam, Marrybrown is a franchise that has a family restaurant concept from Malaysia is now open branch location ini New Top 100 Tembesi - Batuaji.To further pamper customers, Marrybrown gives special promotions. When you spend 50 thousand rupiahs ( about 8 SGD ) and will get a voucher 5 thousand rupiahs. "Vocher can be used in all branches of Marrybrown without having to go shopping again," said Store Manager Merybrown Tembesi, Budi . "The Top 100 Tembesi, we also provide a favorite  menu of "Chicken Penyet", as a new menu," he continued.

Marrybrown is a franchise that has a family restaurant concept that provides a diverse menu, especially the oriental and western. "Marrybrown has been present in the city of Batam since 2007, the first outlet opened in Mega Mall Batam Centre, where they are we serving a variety of food choices with menus of local and western and oriental," said Budi added.

At the opening of the Mall Top 100 Tembesi on 25 next june, Marrybrown also will present a special menu for customers Top 100 Tembesi. Marrybrown with other tenants who will be presenting a special promos and discounts up to 20 percent of shopping vouchers for certain expenditures.

Tembesi Marrybrown outlets will begin to open on June 25, 2010 in conjunction with the opening of the only malls in Batam is equipped with Water Park. "In addition to Marrybrown, the Top 100 Tembesi has also joined Bakso Senayan Shooting Range and Aji Kopitiam," continued Aming, Campaign Manager Top 100 Tembesi.

Souvenirs Discount

December is the month of shopping, because there are Christmas and New Year, many retail businesses in a shopping center in Batam, vying to offer various products with special discounts and discounts. No exception D & V Collections, located in the BCS Mall shopping center floor I Penuin Batam.
"Special price reserved for visitors who want to have a collection of D & V Collections with prices much more affordable, we provide a discount up to 40 percent during December" Sutinah, owner of D & V Collections said to www.batamevent.com.
Souvenirs, 2000 PACIFIC COAST RAIN FOREST (#3378) Souvenir Sheet of 10 x 33 cents US Postage StampsWelcome To Fabulous Las Vegas Sign Embroidered Patch Iron-On Nevada Casino Souvenir Emblem, Souvenirs

40 percent discount applied to each item in D & V Collections. Meanwhile, a collection of stores and shoes accessories and knick-knacks are also somewhat unique and special.


All goods and accessories, ranging from shoes, children's bag, women bag, laptop bag Hello Kitty brand, and other fashion accessories imported from China. "Some of Singapore and Malaysia" Sutinah said. In terms of quality, D & V Collections also ensures that goods in the D & V Collections, has an export of good quality.


D & V Collections also provide a variety of women's shoes are sold with the price range 10 to USD 15. These shoes in addition to having the latest model and design, also have the different varieties for each item, so that no person may use the same model with what is sold at D & V Collections.


"Yes, all of us with different packing of the model, type and size, there is no equal, and besides a very affordable price, and discounted during this december I think is very dear, if passed, a collection of D & V Collections are suitable for Christmas and New Year " end of our meeting.

Hypermart Nagoya Hill

Nagoya Hill, one of the newest shopping mall in Batam.
Here you can go for shopping to Hypermart beside in Batam Centre one.

Go Shopping

As we already told you before, shopping is one of the factors visitors came to Batam. The whole island is a duty free zone, making the prices become relatively low. The shopping scene may not be as good as in Singapore or Hong Kong, because the two islands has transformed into a mega metropolitan city. Batam however, seems rather like the two islands back in the old days, where everything was a lot unsophisticated.

Shopping Malls
Shopping malls available mostly in the larger part of Batam like Nagoya, Waterfront City and Batam Centre. And the selection is quite many. The DC Mall, Lucky Plaza, Centre Point, Batam Centre Mall, Robinson & Ramayana, Megamall (Hypermart) and the newly built BCS Mall is some of the places you could visit. There is also the Ralph Lauren shop which comes with extremely low prices. The items are all genuine, because it is an authorized outlet of Ralph Lauren. You can bargain in many of those shopping places above, so bargaining skill wil be very useful although language will often be a challenge.

Arts and Crafts
You may also want to check out the galleries and local decorating or souvenir shops. You may encounter some fabulous arts and crafts at bargain prices. Items like paintings, wood carvings, pottery, etchings and intricately fashioned jewellery from many part of Indonesia could be found in these shops. The quality is nonetheless excellent.

Duty Free goods
Because of the duty free zone, electronic items like cameras and cellular phones are very much cheap. But you may find it difficult to pass the Customs at the Immigration if you carried out bigger electronic appliances. Other mostly demanded items in Batam are clothing, perfumes, leather goods and confectionaries.

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