Pangkalan Bun “ Orangutan-bornean” by Julielangford – Own work. Borneo is in the middle of rain season as well though so there might be more chance of cloudy skies.ĥ. Coming from Bali, you will have to pay 1.568.158 IDR with Lion Air. You can fly here for 1.069.604 IDR with Lion Air, making it a cheap destination. Palangkaraya is the capital of the Central Kalimantan province in Borneo, and it is in the middle of the eclipse track. Palangkaraya “Jembatan Kahayan” by Paul Wiryantho – Weather prospects are good because it is a small island, but they are also slightly better than Pulau Bangka.Ĥ. The cheapest flight from Bali is 2.559.525 IDR with Garuda Indonesia. The cheapest flight from Jakarta is 981.675 IDR with Garuda Indonesia.
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The island just east of Pulau Bangka is also a cheap option to fly to. The airport of Pulau Belitung is already in the eclipse track, so you won’t need to do much travelling to see full totality. Pulau Belitung “Tanjung Tinggi Beach #3” by Rachmad Kurniadi –
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Weather prospects are better on the smaller islands, so this could be an option to get away from the clouds.ģ.
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The airport itself is not located on the eclipse track though, so you will have to find some transport in the southern direction, but bemo’s, busses and ojek’s are not expensive and could take you a long way. Coming from Bali, it will cost you 2.383.591 IDR to fly into here with Lion Air. You can fly into the airport called Pangkai Pinang for only 834.163 IDR with Lion Air. We recommend visiting this city sometime in the dry season instead and choosing another location to see the solar eclipse.īy Ferry Alayn (Flickr: Tanjung Pesona Bangka), via Wikimedia CommonsA better cheap option to watch the total solar eclipse could be Pulau Bangka. Rain season is in full peak and it has some of the highest cloud coverage predicted for the entire eclipse track. It might be very easy to reach this city, but weather prospects are very bad for this place for this time of year. Coming from Bali, you can fly in here for 2.082.734 IDR with Citylink. For only 743.900 IDR you can fly straight into Sumatra’s second largest city with Lion Air, in the middle of the eclipse track. If you are coming from Bali, you will often have to fly to Jakarta first before getting to other destinations, which will make it more expensive.īy fitri agung from Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia, Indonesia (grand mousque), via Wikimedia CommonsOne of the cheapest places to fly to is Palembang in Sumatra.
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The prices listed below are including the return trip. We assume that you will be flying into either Bali or Jakarta, so we will mainly look at these two airports for further reference.
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These prices can be different when you decide to book for yourself. We have made our list going from cheap to more expensive, but keep in mind that these prices are mere estimations based on the prices of today. We already made a list of the eclipse locations based on a combination of weather and touristic values, you can read that in Planning eclipse 2016: Choose your location. We decided to help her out and make a list of some places and their price tag. Sadly for her, and other eclipse chasers, the places that are the cheapest to get to are often the places with the worst weather prospects. A friend of ours asked us what the cheapest locations are to see the total solar eclipse in 2016.