{"id":2575,"date":"2011-10-11T02:50:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T02:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:32:15","slug":"bellitong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2575","title":{"rendered":"Belitong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">We have been in Belitong for nearly a week now &#8211; our last stop in Indonesia. We have never encountered a more welcoming place. They have made all the cruisers feel so welcome &#8211; with huge &#8220;Welcome Sail Indonesia&#8221; &#8221; Sail Wakatobe Belitong&#8221; banners all the way down the beach and down the road for 20 miles or more &#8211; traditional dancing everyday on the beach &#8211; events and tours and meals for us every day. The people here are so friendly and everyone wants to take our picture. I think we must have posed for 40 different families already. The water is lovely and the beach is clean and we have been able to kayak everyday &#8211; early in the morning when it is calm. The weather is starting to change as we get nearer and nearer to the equator and later in the season &#8211; and we are starting to see thunderstorms almost daily.<br \/>\nLast night was the final event of this year&#8217;s &#8220;Sail Indonesia Rally&#8221;. We had a fun evening on shore with some speeches by local dignitaries (a bit boring), followed by lots of traditional dancing, and then very funny performances by various groups of sailors.<br \/>\nWe are sad to leave, but it is time to get to Singapore with Hannah. We leave this afternoon and it will take us about 4 days to get there &#8211; with a few stops on the way.<br \/>\nL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/sabbatical3blog.posterous.com\/bellitong\">sabbatical3blog&#8217;s posterous<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been in Belitong for nearly a week now &#8211; our last stop in Indonesia. We have never encountered a more welcoming place. They have made all the cruisers feel so welcome &#8211; with huge &#8220;Welcome Sail Indonesia&#8221; &#8221; Sail Wakatobe Belitong&#8221; banners all the way down the beach and down the road for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belitong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indonesia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}