Must visit destination for those who want to visit Belitong, especially for the first timer (since it took so much time to travel to East belitong).
If you want to have more 'emotional' feeling when you visit this place I would suggest to watch the First movie from the "Laskar Pelangi" otherwise what you will see just some wooden old school stranded in the middle of nowhere.
All the details are still there, eventhough it's just the replica. You can take picture outside and inside - if you meet local kids in kaolin powder covered, take picture and interact with them and don't forget to give...
Ā Ā Ā Read moreGantong village in Belitung Timur (East Belitung Regency) be a famous village after making "Laskar Pelangi" film based on Andrea Hirata's novel. Lucky me ....., when I visit to this village for several times in 2007, I watched the making of "Laskar Pelangi". We can reach this village by car about an hour from Hananjoeddin airport, Tanjung Pandan (TJQ), West Belitung. Still standing the replica of historical elementary school "SD Muhammadiyah". Not far from here you can continue your trip to Manggar the Capital of East Belitung Regency..., and you'll see many coffee stores..., and taste it...
Ā Ā Ā Read moreIt was sunny and hot when We visited the place On Friday 7 June 2024. There were not many visitors or local tourists. Our students are enthusiastically sit on the chairs in the classroom too feel the circumstances. Too feel the DREAM. It takes us about one and half hour to reach the location. The road is ok and it can be passed even by a bus. The parking space is quite big and some people sell food and souvenirs at the side of the entrance gate. The ticket is affordable. It's only Rp. 5.000. I believe that you don't want to stay there more than one hour. It does not have convenient place to...
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