Filed under: Indonesia, Travel diary, Uncategorized | Tags: Gili Island, Gili Trawangan, Indonesia, Lombok
That’s the title of an Indonesian song. That will be the song of the holidays.
Just came back from Gili Trawangan, a little paradise for party people, lost in the north of Lombok. The coral barrier is one of the most beautiful in the world and divers from all over the world come to see the fishes and the submarine flowers. Internet is almost inexistant and all you can do is relax, dive, snorkle, chill on the beach and drink banana juices in little berudas. No. Really, look at this:
We were meant to stay 3 days and stayed 5! We went out every night, met some nice French, Canadian and Dutch guys, ate lovely food for nothing from a little warung owned by a beautiful old lady who was opening her pans proudly to show us what she had cook for the day, danced, smoked, read, went snorkeling and had to force ourselves to get out of bed at 7:00am yesterday to go back on the main island… I think I’m getting into this trip 
We are now back in Bali Kuta where we will take a bus tonight to go to Java. We want to climb the Bromo volcano to see the sunrise from the top. Then we will head to Yogyakarta where we want to hire a scooter and visit the surroundings. Java is the cultural nest of the Indonesian culture, sounds promising… Any advices and tips are welcome 
Today we have rented bikes and went to the market. It is a local market so we were the attraction! People were laughing at us and smiling and letting us take pictures of the fishes and fruits…. I think after having seen the meat rotting in the warmth I will become a vegetarian!
We then went for a ride in the mountains and ended up on the seaside in the north of Senggigi. We stopped for a sun cream stop on the road side and there were a few houses… Suddenly 25 kids arrived from all sides and surrounded us. There were also old women and young mums, all curious to see the white girls. They were so funny! I felt really emotional because so far we were tourists in a foreign country looking at THEM but for once the balanced changed and we were the ones being looked at. They wanted us to take pictures of them so we did and we offered them some biscuits and cigarettes which helped starting the conversations… Well… The conversations! They didn’t really speak English and we didn’t really speak Indonesian but we sat down with them and talked a little bit…
Lombok is like Bali but more preserved as the island is Muslim is less welcoming but it is far more authentic and there are some splendid beaches and amazing landscapes! I warmely recommend it to anyone who is seeking a real experience with amazing white sandy beaches.
And hey… the sun is out! Yeah! I heard it is in London as well and I almost got jealous
Oh by the way, I posted some pictures on Flickr, 5!!! But I think they are the ones from the airport in Hong Kong and the taxi at the arrival! … sorry… I’ll try again soon. Oh and I managed to post the pictures from some of the kids on my Facebook profile as well.
