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Just chillin...

 Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gili Islands By Nessy and Pete
May 27th 2007

The Gili Islands

'Gili' just means islands in Indonesian- but these three Gilis deserve their name. They are literally three small islands off the coast of Lombok where you can go to pretend you're stranded. We spent two weeks here- diving, snorkelling everyday, reading in our hammocks (we found places to string them over the water in the mangroves!) and drinking lots of arak and rice wine- bottles at 1 pound a go! Dogs are banned onn the island so cats run the place and there is no motorised transport- horse and cart only!! We saw were determined to see more small stuff in the sea so we managed to find Gobi shrimp and their Gobis (fish and shrimp that live together in their burrows!), mantis shrimp, squid, orang-utans crabs, pygmy seahorses, halequin shrimp, garden eels and loads of nudibranch (little colourful sea slug things!)

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