Blogs from Gilli Trawangan, Lombok, Indonesia, Asia - page 16

Selamat jalang (davs) folkens! Saa er vi kommet "hjem" til Gili T efter en 10 dage paa Bali. OG HVILKE 10 DAGE! Vi har dykket med 9 manta rays (kaempe rokker paa 5 meter) paa Nusa Penida samt en Mola Mola (Oceanic sunfish/klumpfisk) paa en tre meters penge!! Vi saa 6 mantaer paa samme dyk ved Manta Point (obviously). sitet er et sted de ofte kommer for at feede (aede) saa de blir omkring og svoemmer rundt om en under hele dykket hvilket er ret sjaelent da de ellers plejer bare at glide forbi, hvis man altsaa sku vaere saa heldig at se en (som i jo nok maa ha forstaaet ikke sker for saerligt mange ik!) Mola Molaen saa vi ved Crystal Bay ogsaa ved Nusa Penida. Og det er saa endnu mere sjaelent!:-) de ... read more

We are currently at the Gili Islands on the North West tip of Lombok which is an island just east of Bali. We are super happy to be here as the diving is INSANE! (we'll post pics in our next blog) and the island is very mellow and has a great vibe. There are no cars, only bicycles and horse drawn buggies! The locals are all really nice and it's absolutely gorgeous! We met up with Barbara and John last Sunday at the airport and spent time bouncing around from Uluwatu to Seminyak and then back to Uluwatu looking for good surf, which was found at both places. On their third night here, when we were in Seminyak, they got engaged! We are happy for them and they are very excited. Friday we took a 5 ... read more

i fear this may be the crappest blog ever but ill do it anyways cos im sure you're all having withdrawls. im on gili trawangan! off lombok. most amazing place ever! but first i shall recap::: yogya was awesome, as i knew it'd be. even though it became apparent that esther HAD after all contracted dengue fever. and we DID spend like 3 days in the hosptial with her. and she DID faint AGAIN but this time it was slightly more humerous. we had lovely man friends who hung out with us in the hosptial, and at one stage we even got to pray. yeahh those hospital days were funny.. i did a lot more drinking and dancing, poor pol couldnt though. we found orgasmic chocolate melts and made lots of australian friends, got involved with ... read more

Deciding to take a vacation within our honeymoon, we have now gone on two day-trips to the Gilis, three small islands sitting just off Lombok's northwest coast. Our route took us north from Senggigi along the breathtaking coastal road, which follows the shoreline through a series of scallop-shaped bays of white beaches, turquoise water, and thick palm forests. Our first visit took us to the closest island to the mainland: Gili Air, which somewhat oxymoronically translates to "Water Island." We spent the morning snorkeling (with, in Linz's expert opinion, good quality equipment) off the beach. The water was ankle-deep for the first several yards out, and the seabed was made of vengeful dead coral. But after a few painful minutes, we reached water deep enough to swim in without grating ourselves raw. Giving in to the ... read more

Matt and I were moan, moan moaning about the stupid bus ride from hell as we drove through the streets of Kuta in Bali, streets lined with bars and life and the beach just metres away, when Tom turned round and said - "Will you guys shut up; we're in BALI!" To bloody right to be fair, we were on our way to the tropical delights of the Indonesian Islands and all we could do was moan about the journey getting there! We had another all nighter because it was the final of the Euro and our transport across to the Gili's came very early in the morning. The pub was absolutely full to bursting, mainly with Germans - I mean it was ridiculous I had to go back to our room to go to the ... read more