so our plan today is to show you some beautiful
landscapes and some images that you might not imagine are only a two-hour boat ride
from jakarta now i will confess that last night i was up all night projectile vomiting so
when i learned that the boat was overcrowded and we had to sit on life jackets on the
way here sitting on a pile of life jackets let me just tell you i'm empty and stomach guys
we are pushing it to the limit today that being said hopefully we can get some good
drone shots and find a way to make this vlog because it's going to be hard for
me to vlog from inside of a toilet so i'll do the best i can to show you guys the island we
are only two hours from jakarta in fact the jetty which we took off is in jakarta yes
so this is jakarta yes this island is technically jakarta did you know this was jakarta okay that's
the name of the vlog today that's the idea of the vlog is showing you a place you might
not imagine as jakarta while simultaneously trying not to crap my pants okay let's explore
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are these real
it looks real because it's got like uh and the pores
oh my gosh this is amazing this is a clam shell this is the world's biggest clam no
i can't even move it oh my god it's so big is it real or the concrete
let me know guys if you know this is real or not do you know clams could be this big
is this even a clam seashell look it looks real oh i think it's real i think it's real
i think there's probably as big as big as a a a basin to wash a baby in yeah you could
wash a baby in that clam shell oh yeah you're right and the pearl as big as a soccer ball
look at this guys wow blue water in jakarta there's your thumbnail right there this is jakarta
wow and i think there's a resort around the corner so let's go
explore the resort and see if we can get some uh stomach friendly food whoa
this is nice this doesn't even feel like a beach anymore it feels like a cabin in the
in the woods this is very sort of canadian if you change all the plants but just the feeling
of it with the wood sort of cabin in the trees now technically there are residents on this
island like people who live here full time yeah but i think the resorts are starting to go up
we've seen a lot of construction we've even seen a gigantic uh what do you call this front end loader
excavator that was scooping out white sand from the water and my guess is they're gonna bring
the white sand to the resort somewhere and make it more beautiful and i say more power to them
because the feeling here is it's not yet world famous and there's not people all around yeah
it's like empty and quiet that's right but it has some serious potential you guys saw the watercolor
so let's go around the horn here and check out the resort because
uh so far so good been a pleasant surprise here to be in uh tropical paradise in jakarta good
so naturally part of this vlog will be to show you guys the incredible beauty
because i guess most people from jakarta know this is jakarta but i think our youtube audience
you guys who are not from jakarta i think you don't realize like me that
there is this really beautiful blue water in jakarta but another part of this vlog will be
some sort of investigative journalism because we don't know what to expect in terms of the
accommodations so it says guess only here but you can see it's sort of like glamping uh maybe
a little bit nicer than glamping and there is a villa over here that looks really really nice so
we are sort of learning about what the resorts are like here because i think this is a relatively new
idea to most people who are not from jakarta and i guess right out front of the nicer than glamping
but not an entire villa type accommodation uh you've got the private beach for yourself
so the watercolor is amazing uh the beach has got that white sand although there is a lot of
seashells but it looks amazing and i think there's more than a few spots you can find
with no seashells and you can go swim and so we figured you guys might like this vlog because
sort of unexpected in jakarta so i'm not sure how big this island is i think we'll
just keep exploring keep walking around on the shoreline and see how far we can
go because uh so far it's been interesting let's explore let's explore jakarta baby
wow here we are guys the tiny but seemingly quite vibrant community and don't blink or you'll miss
it because it's about 200 people in this community which really speaks to the size of the island
so the entire island is like 20 hectares and it's literally just the resort we showed you
this little village and then one more building which i think is a restaurant maybe we'll go there
soon for lunch but one thing i love about this island is there's a sort of natural pool created
by a little sand bar with trees on it and it's the line where the ocean blue stops and the beach blue
starts so in the pool it's just absolutely beautiful and it's surprising that it's so
empty here because this island is really beautiful sort of reminds me of lombok when ivan and i were
in lombok five years ago not to be clear lombok is much bigger that's right but lombok was empty
and very beautiful and we were predicting lombok would become more and more popular and i think
today lombok is quite popular so my prediction is in five years or ten years this little tiny island
will be way more happening and that pool out front will be full of paddleboards and kayaks and canoes
because there's no waves in there and it's kind of ideal for gentle water sports and
so there you have it that's the whole community it's cool this is the school at the end of the
street maybe a little shop here and that's the whole community school of 200 people island it's
an amazing thing i i think about all the time is would i rather live in a place like this or live
in the city is totally different lifestyle of upbringing there's pros and cons to both
but imagine being born and raised in a tiny community of 200 people where there's chickens
in the street you know it's in my head it's quite romantic and i think i would like it although it
presents its own challenges naturally but like i said i would guess that uh this island will
be very popular for tourism naturally you have to land in jakarta and deal with jakarta traffic
and come here that might be a deterrent because in lombok you can just land in valley and it's pretty
tourist friendly all around but uh the place here is really beautiful the water out front is amazing
and uh i can't wait for that pool to be full of paddle boards and even a little
island in the pool we'll have like a a pop-up shop for cold drinks oh they're gonna be so
paddle board up and buy a cold drinking time in jakarta how you doing keep it moving island time
in jakarta could be something special so with that maybe we'll go for some lunch what's here
actually the best peace and going in the world is indonesia wow
it's true fact they get the best fried bananas here and they have all kinds of
drinks cool drinks he'll mix it up for you and put some ice very nice maybe we'll go uh maybe
the best okay maybe we'll go uh have some lunch now i love these small island life days
i didn't live in jakarta who would have guessed it there is actually
a home stay here guys look at the sign right there
if you guys don't want to stay in a resource you can also stay in this homestay
inside the residential kampung area it's an island kampung so there's a school at
the end of the street and there's a clinic right here wow and a little water on there
and a mosque right here it's like a complete island i love it i love this kampung island life
oh yeah oh very good sugar-free alcohol-free lemon lemonade wow and by the way what the
heck do you want to drink in it's a lemon yogurt if you pick this up right now the
drink will overflow this is full of liquid still yeah it would overflow okay i gotta drink it first
hey time to relax time to relax
because there's a turtle
turtle gotta say this must be the best place in jakarta for sure wow i grew up here until
i was 14 and i didn't know even about this place why it's like so hidden it's like a
hidden gem and now everyone is starting to discover close reboot and it's starting to
get busier and more resource are developing so hopefully they will still take care of this
pulau right here look at this look how blue the water is i can't believe my eyes i'm in japan
we are off-roading out here walking along the ocean and pool divider as ivana stand-up
paddleboards in her clothes displaying supreme confidence that she will not fall and get all her
clothes away good job ivana so i guess the reason i built this wall is because there's actually
a nice restaurant here and i think without the wall the waves would be pretty intense
so this makes it very swimmable now the reason i came out here
is because we just saw a huge turtle yeah ivana was screaming from the paddleboard
so it was just swimming along over here uh we don't have anything to show you the scale of the
turtle but take my word for it it was a very big turtle yeah now unfortunately i'm not going to go
in the water today because of my stomach issues and so i will not give you a full beach review
you guys know how we do beach reviews five points for the vibe five points for the physical beauty
i can't do a beach review if i didn't go in the water i feel like it's a bit much that's right
but i will say this we learned that this island is one of many islands known as thousand islands
in fact there are only a few hundred but thousand is a hyperbole for effect so if you don't think
this one is built up enough for your liking i'm sure there are many more and i have many different
vibes completely wild to completely develop yes this one is on its way to becoming more developed
but it's still in the construction process yeah although i had a good time today me too i actually
enjoy this i love bottle boarding i like i like sup shout out to sarah food oh shout out i like
this how much i'm pretty good at it no you're killing my baby when i saw you go on your clothes
i said wow that is a step up because usually when you started you were in the water more than on the
board in my head i'm not gonna fall today good work i'm not gonna go ahead although if i did
i would be okay or if i'm going to fall later on i'm going to be okay no problem the water looks
very inviting the color just jumps off the screen and we've showed you guys the whole island it's
one restaurant one resort that's kind of glamping and the town and we got a little pool here so
there you have it guys thanks for watching our video i will say this to end the video
if you look at the island from the sky it sort of looks like an ice cream cone it really does
so it's about time somebody made an ice cream shop on this island i would say ice cream shop
with cones maybe me maybe we can do canadian ice cream cold stone creamery okay i'm about to get
splashed by these gigantic swells but thanks for watching our video hopefully in the next video
i will not be uh bubbling ivana says love you guys and we'll see you later bye bye everybody