"Ulee Lheue Ferry Port"

avika (50)in #travel • 8 years ago

If you choose Aceh as your holiday destination, one of the places you must visit is Sabang Island. Sabang Island is an island located in Aceh region, to go there you have to use ship crossing through Ulee lheue Ferry Port located in Banda Aceh.

Ulee Lheue Ferry Port is the only port in Banda Aceh which is the port of the ferry that goes to Sabang. Here I will review about the situation on Ulee Lheue Ferry Port that you can make a picture of about that if one day you will go to spend holidays to sabang.

The Ferry Port is located about 2 km from the city center, and about 20.7 km from Sultan Iskandar Muda Airport Banda Aceh.

This is the front view of Ulee Lheue Ferry Port. You can take a taxi or public transportation to get here.

Ulee Lheue Ferry Port serves the crossing back and goes to Sabang using two kinds of crossing vessels, namely slow boats and fast boats.

If you using a slow boat, the travel time from Ulee lheue Ferry Port to Balohan Sabang Ferry Port about 2 hours 30 minutes, where as if using a fast boat only takes approximately 45 minutes.

At the front entrance of the harbor, there is a counter for buying tickets. The ticket price for the slow ferry is 30,000 rupiah while the speed ferry ticket price is 80.000 rupiah (The price until now).

After getting a ticket, you can go to the waiting room and wait until the departure time of the ferry. While you wait you can buy snacks that are in the small stores there. You can also buy original gifts or souvenirs of aceh that are also available there.

Before the ferry departs, the ferry's crew first takes care of your things to be loaded into the trunk of goods, and checks the state of the ferry.

You will be notified if the ferry is about to depart, from the waiting room you can go directly to the ferry, after undergoing inspection and checking the ticket made by the port officer, then you can board the ferry and depart.