![]() Typically, a two night stay is the minimum required at either Telunas Beach Resort or Telunas Private Island (I’ll explain more about the differences in my next post.) However, if you’re staying at both properties like we were, there’s only a three night minimum total. I haven’t jumped off anything so high since I went deep water soloing in Krabi years ago - don’t forget to cross your arms across your chest and cross you ankles! I forgot to cross my arms and my shoulder wasn’t happy about it, but the adrenaline shot I got both times I jumped made it well worth it. I almost crawled back down in shame multiple times before Ian finally cheered me into making a shrieking leap. And it’s trips like this where you have the space and time to tell them, and to listen.Īnd of course, the adventurer in me couldn’t resist jumping off not just any dock, but the absolute highest dock, the one you need to check with staff before tackling. I regaled Ian with the memory and loved noting that years into dating, we still have stories that the other hasn’t heard. We couldn’t resist peeking in the little ceramics studio, which warmed my heart as it reminded me of an evening ceramics class my dad and I took together at a local arts center when I was in high school - I took it for college credit, and my dad audited it in order to spend some extra time with me. Our favorite feature, however, was a balcony with two chairs and a hammock facing the sunset, and well designed for total privacy - from where we stood, our bungalow might have been the only one at the resort. Our room had lovely, Indonesian-inspired furnishings like a hand-carved bureau and side-tables, hand-stitched pillowcases and local carvings in the main bedroom, plus a small nook with bunk beds for families traveling with little ones. Our room was a chalet with a balcony, the highest room category at Telunas Beach Resort, though they all share a natural style of construction based on local Riau architecture. We knew then, we were going to love this place. Don’t worry about locking your door, they assured us. There’s no formal reception or check-in, instead, the staff gave us a sweet and smiling introduction to the property before showing us to our room to get settled. We could see the thatch roofs of Telunas Beach Resort in the distance as our boat approached, and as we got closer, the waving figures of two staff members who had come to meet us, fresh fruit welcome drinks in hand. And that’s what made this trip so dreamy. Forgetting that fact, it was easy to imagine we were days away from civilization. I emphasize this because throughout our three days on Sugi Island, we had to continually pinch ourselves and remind each other we were just a few hours by boat from one of the most modern, cosmopolitan and developed cities in Southeast Asia. If you can get to Singapore easily - you can get to Telunas, too. It might sound like a lot of steps, but it was one of my most efficient days in transit, ever. We watched the sunrise from a ferry that morning, and were watching the sunset from our balcony with welcome drinks in hand that evening. At least, from our years of traversing Southeast Asia, we did!īut with the organized hub of Singapore as a transit point, it was actually fairly seamless - we woke up in Koh Tao, took the first ferry of the morning to Koh Samui, hopped a direct flight to Singapore, efficiently transferred to the harbor where we took a one-hour ferry to Sekupang, Indonesia, and were picked up by Telunas Beach Resort representatives, who took us by local boat the remaining ninety minutes to Sugi Island. Now, you’d think that traveling from a tiny, airport-free island in Thailand to a remote, airport-free island in Indonesia would take at least one night in transit. Which made it seem like kismet when Telunas Beach Resort, a unique eco-lodge just a few hours by boat from Singapore, reached out to me about coming out to create some content. My Thai visa was up, so I had to leave the country, but we didn’t have long so we didn’t want to go too far.
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