Singapore Cycling - Lingga
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Lingga is an island more distant to Singapore and it is situated just south of the equator. You have to make a few ferry transfers to reach it from Singapore. The scenery of the island is dominated by the Lingga Mountain, which has an altitude of 1163 m above sea level. Rick Ross explored the island and all info below comes from him. |
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Access to linggaA boat takes goods and passengers from Dabo (Singkep) to Daik at 11:00 am on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, and from Daik to Dabo at 11:00 am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (no ferry Saturday). The trip takes about two hours, with the boat plying up the river in Lingga all the way to Daik.Surviving on LinggaThe Town, Inns, and Food: Daik is a small one street village that harks of the Wild West, with wooden buildings lined up along the main street, betrayed only by the pavement, cement walks, and corrugated iron roofs. There's one place to stay, above the wartel (telephone office). Food is also quite basic here.Touring on LinggaPlease note that the distances on the map are rough estimates.a) The main road in town runs along the river. There's a bridge in town that crosses the river and meets up with a road I will mention momentarily, but cycling out of town along the main road, which will bear left and then right, you will hit a "T" intersection beside the District Office with its two small cannons decorating the front lawn (about 1 km). b) Turning right, you will cross the river and curve back towards town, meeting the aforementioned bridge, then continue along the east side of the river, and then turn left away from the river for about 3 km. c) Back at the District Office, the left turn and then an immediate right turn will lead into the island. About 2 km down this road, you will hit an intersection where you can go straight or turn right (let me call this intersection "A"). Follow the main road right (I'll describe the straight course later). About 5 km later, the hills begin, where you will hit a three way intersection with a monument in the center. Bearing left and up the hill, you can continue about 5 more km to the village of Resun. The road ends just beyond the village at a river. d) Arriving at the monument from Daik again, you can continue east towards Limbung. Unfortunately, I was only able to take this road about 20 km. It got progressively hillier, to the point where I had to turn around, as it had rained earlier and my rear tire was slipping going up the hills (and was even too steep and slippery to cycle back down, so I walked my bicycle down!). e) Back at the District Office, you can turn left as before, but then not make the immediate right turn. Continuing straight, you go through a residential area for about 1 km. At the "T" intersection, turn right (the left turn curves back around on a poorly paved road to near the District Office). This road will curve to the right for about 3 km, passing a school and eventually joining up with the Daik-Limbung road mentioned earlier (at intersection "A"). 
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