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Pulau Weh - Iboih Beach


First off there were the spiders that were all over, they were massive and always decided to build their webs on the only path along the coast.


So I decided to take a vacation from travelling and settle down somewhere for a bit. And I dont think I could have picked a nicer place!

Pulau Weh is and island on the very north west tip of Indonesia
I found a nice bungalow for 60000 ID (about $6) a night and just hung out for 2 weeks.


There were lots of monkeys on the island but unlike some other places in asia they didnt try to steal things so they werent a problem.


One day I rented a motorbike and drove around the island for a bit.
I though I was heading to a waterfall in this picture but I never made it :/


I did make it to Kilometre 0 however, which is the very most western point you can get to.


This is the view from the restaurant at my bungalows where you can see the island Pulau Rubiah just across the island . Just on the other side of the island is a great snorkelling place that they call the Sea Garden. Most days I would swim across to the island ( About 10 min) and then walk the path over it and go snorkelling for a few hours on the other side before swimming back.


Right infont of my bunglaow there was amazing snorkelling as well.


Sadly I didnt have an underwater camera so I couldnt get any pictures to show you :(
So ill kinda just have to describe them as best i can.



Here are some cats chillin on the rocks.



After snorkelling for days by my self I decided I needed to make it more exciting because after a while coral does tend to look all the same. So I made up a game where I flip upside down and spin around, then when I open my eyes I look for a fish. The first fish I see I have to find some coral that matches the same colours of the fish. It can provide endless hours of fun.

Once while over at the sea garden I came across a giant black eel like thing that was about the same size as me! spent a little while just looking at it but it wasnt really moving at all so I got bored and moved on.

On the other side of the island as well there was always this massive school of medium size blue fish, they were literally everywhere once they swam by you. I though it was pretty cool until one day i noticed these really big dark grey fish that would dart around in and out of the school of fish hunting them. I decided from then on I would separate myself from the school in fear of accidentally getting bit.

Another fish a really liked was what I called a Japanese fish. They were pretty big and vertically flat and their scales were all gold,blue,black and green so they looked kind of like those Japanese paintings.

A lot of fish I made up names for just because I didnt know their actual ones.




On the morning of my last day I had to get up at 5 to get a taxi to the ferry port on the other side of the island, walked all the way along the path to the little village where I got the car and thats when i started a long day of travelling.




I decided not to go to Jakarta and had friends that I met in Cambodia that I decided i was going to meet in Bali. I had a ticket booked to fly to KL where I figured it would be easiest to get a flight to Bali so I was hoping I would be able to get one that day.



For more photos check the album on the left! Remember to comment and pass on!

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