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Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan December 1st 2007

More mushrooms, more parties.... I have spent the last 4 days chilling on the beach nursing my hangovers. So much for coming to Gilly Trawangan for some R & R. Every night there is a party! I have met some great locals, Addy and Joe who are insererable, Lang who is as cool as..Ali, aka The Magicman - the funniest guy here, Elan - cute as!, Mona, Dan.... Ash turned up yesterday, I met him in Phi Phi at breakfast, we were both nursing hangovers...He had had a long journey from Java, hadn't slept for 48 hours. he reckoned he was going to bed....yeah whatever....I think he got to bed at 8 am this morning!! he was still sucking on mushroom shales at 6am! haha!! It was V's last night though so we had to give ... read more
the beach...
V on the beach
Mus

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan November 26th 2007

Full Moon Mushrooms... The Full Moon Party was brilliant! Had a couple of mushroom shakes before we went out, felt like I was getting motion sickness as we got the horse and carriage down to the party. Well maybe it was more like a donkey and cart...the only way to travel bar push bike in Gilly T as there are no cars and motorbikes. The mushroom shakes here are nowhere near as yummy as in Laos. They mix it with coke and it kind of curdles and tastes fowl! Holod your nose and down the hatch! We met up with this Italian guy called Itscio, 54 yrs, married 15 days who danced ALL night until the sun came up over Mount Rinjini in Lombok. His wife wasn't in the Gilly's with him, she was meeting him ... read more
Haddy and Jo
Rudy's Bar

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan November 25th 2007

Gilly T...for some R & R...or so that was the plan! I arrived at Gilly Trawangan this evening! The bus journey turned out ok, got 2 seats to myself, popped 2 valium stretched out and slept the whole way. Didn't even wake up when the bus boarded a ferry bound for Lombok. Gilly Trawangan looks just the same as it did last May. The boat on the way over broke down for half an hour...I don't have much luck with boats. The boat guy recommended his friends bungalows, turns out they are the cheapest on the island. Its not too bad, vast improvement on 'Horse Shit' in Bajawa. I headed out for a walk and stumbled across a bar called Ocean, met a girl called V from South Africa, tonight we are off to the Full ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan November 19th 2007

So, today was my last day here on Trawangan. I've had a great time and hope that one day I'll make it back. I'm a little quieter than usual tonight. Tired, hungry and ready to go meet up with Scotty and Tristen. Crys and Keira do their own thing and I do mine, so some contact from like-minded people will be good for me. My dives were all fantastic, and I'm now an Advanced Open Water Diver. Its great, I can dive anywhere in the world! In the course their are about 15 different topics and you pick and dive 5 of them. We started with Deep Diving and went on to do Navigation, Night Diving, Underwater Naturalist and Digital Photography. I managed to get some great shots on the last day with Bruno's camera and ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan November 16th 2007

Not long after my blog yesteray I was taken down by a mystery illness that involved alot of vomiting and very little eating. luckily i was well by morning, just in time to make it to my dive refresher course. The morning involved a quick session in the pool and then a break for lunch before going out for our first ive back in the ocean. We went to a dive site just on the other side of Trawangan, called Halik Reef and Wall. We were down for about an hour and saw all sorts of sea life including turtles, reef sharks, and even an angry mother trigger fish who attacked us. I start my Advanced Open Water Course tomorrow. A deep water dive at 9am, a navigational dive at 1pm and then a night dive ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan November 15th 2007

I won't lie...I'm actually in paradise. When you think of a beach paradise you picture an island with white sand beaches, hammocks, thatched platforms with pillows overlooking the crystal blue water and parties until the early hours of the morning. This place exists. I know this, because I'm there! Off to coast of Lombok lies a chain of islands known as the Gili Islands. Each with its own distinct character and personality. Gili Meno, a ghost town with so few people you can go for days without seeing anyone. Gili Air, a fun little island with a carefree attitude. And Gili Trawangan, the upbeat of the three full of travelers from all over the world, here to dive, to surf, to eat, to drink and most of all to have fun all day everyday until the ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan October 10th 2007

We got up early to catch our taxi which we had arranged a few days ago to take us to the port in Padangbai. We had managed to get a cheap price for the journey as we were initially going to get the bus and the taxi driver gave us a good deal. As the taxi was about 10 minutes late, Mark went for a wonder and later signaled me that he had found our taxi driver. After having a nice chat with the taxi driver and being well into our journey we realised that it was not our taxi driver and that the one we had had told a little fib and the metre was running! We made it to the port where we were intercepted by an agency and were completely ripped off for ... read more
Lombok in the distance
Stressful or what?
Local Taxi

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan August 24th 2007

Aamulla herättiin aikaisin herätyskellon pärinään, koska minibussi tulisi hakemaan meitä hotellilta. Suuntimana olisi tällä kertaa Gili Air. Gili tarkoittaa Indonesiaksi saarta, mutta saaret tunnetaan kuitenkin nimellä Gili-islands. Saaria on kolme kipaletta ja ne sijaitsevat Balin vieressä olevan hitusen pienemmän saaren, Lombokin, luoteisnurkassa. Tomi jätti taas pakkaamiseen viime tinkaan ja hyvästä nyrkkipakkaus-yrityksestä huolimatta lähdettiin hitusen myöhässä. Auto heitti meidät Padangbai-nimiseen kylään, josta lähti autolautta kohti Lombokia. Aamuisesta sähläyksestä huolimatta oltiin reilusti etuajassa. Varhaisen lähdön takia emme ehtineet syödä ilmaista aamupalaa hotellissa, vaan meidät jätettiin odottelemaan laivan lähtöä Pandangbain sataman hintavaan ravintolaan. Paikka oli tietysti ”kätevästi” matkanjärjestäjän toimiston vieressä, joten väkisinkin siinä rupesi miettimään k... read more
Gili Trawangan
Gili Trawangan
Lautalla matkalla Lombokiin

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan August 1st 2007

Aaaaaaaaaaah, how annoying - the computers here are so slow that I was just saving a blog and it took so long it timed out and wiped what I'd written - second time lucky! So we woke up at ridiculous o'clock (5.30am) and we were picked up by a bus that took us to a boat (to Lombok) where we got on another bus that took us to another boat that took us to Gili Trawangan (GT). All in all a 13 hour journey - start to finish. However, I think this could have been almost halfed if we hadn't been ushered into friends' restaurants for breakfast and generally waiting around unnecessarily. We were lucky enough to watch an absolutely stunning sunset though on the final lap of the trip. There are three Gili islands altogether ... read more
Sunrise over Lombok
The main street

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok » Gilli Trawangan August 1st 2007

"You gotta go to Gilli" is what everyone said when they heard Bali was on our agenda. So we went to Gilli Trawangan for the full moon party. First things first: its not like the full moon on Ko Pha Ngan. This one is a lot smaller, about 200 people, and its a lot more chilled out. No idiots, no ravers, just a few people dancing on the beach with some chunes on in the background. Its how I imagine Thailand was 10 years ago. The Gilli islands are 3 islands off the North of Lombok: G Air, G Meno and Gilli Trawangan. There are no motorised vehicles so all transport is horsedrawn. Apart from the main strip there is also no electricity and all the showers use seawater (nice). But all that adds to the ... read more
Sunrise on Gilli T
More Sunrise




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