Located just 150 nautical miles north east of Singapore, Bawah Island offers untouched beauty on a scale that needs to be seen to be believed.
Bawah Private Island, consists of 35 tented safari and over water villas, and is connected to Singapore by its own seaplane.
It only takes four hours to travel back 10,000 years. Your time machine travel experience involves a short ferry ride from Singapore to Batam Island, Indonesia. From Batam Airport, you will take a 70-minute flight aboard a private Bawah seaplane that will land in a beautiful lagoon right in front of your suite.
The five uninhabited islands making up Bawah are located at the southern end of Indonesia's Anambas Archipelago, half way between the Malay Peninsula and Borneo in the South China Sea.
Bawah offers a total playground of 300 hectares, covered in lush jungle canopy and surrounded by three sheltered lagoons and 13 powder-white beaches are dotted around the islands.
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Bawah Reserve is an intimate, sustainable resort with only 35 suites and a maximum of 70 guests.
The short journey begins with a chauffeur pickup from Singapore and ends in a spectacular landing on the turquoise lagoon just in time for lunch.
Whilst the timings vary daily please see here for details on the journey to Bawah.
• Now flying 7 days per week
• Up to 3 flights per day
• Journey starts in Singapore, guests are collected from their hotel/home or airport
• Return transport package cost* $700 USD per guest.
*Additional to room rate.
http://www.bawahreserve.com
I don’t need to talk about the beauty of Bawah; the comfort of the villas be they beach or water; the creativity and quality of food particularly bearing in mind the isolation of the island; or the luxury of being able to remove yourself from the real world for just a while, because the many photographs of Bawah do that for themselves.
A stay at Bawah is undoubtedly a luxury holiday but without realising, it almost from the moment you get your first glimpse of the islands from the seaplane, it embraces you in what I now realise is an experience in mindfulness. And I definitely don’t mean you need to sit and meditate, far from it there is too much to see and do for that! However the whole ethos of sustainability, impact on the environment, and leave only footprints, take only memories thinking is what sets Bawah apart from other destinations.
I feel those who had the vision and those who are striving to achieve it should also be mentioned, it feels like a family welcoming you to their home who just want to make sure you have the best time whilst stopping with them, and you go away wanting to come back soon.
If this appeals to you then don’t hesitate get there fast you won’t be disappointed!
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