Mandalika Bus Terminal
This is a way of buying a bus ticket at the bus terminal in Sweta, Lombok, we bought our bus ticket from 8 bus ticket agents and they were crookers because they sold the bus ticket with high price to us.
It should be a fixed cost, which was supposed to be Rp. 120,000 (CAD$13.50)/person/oneway trip to Pancasila village in Sumbawa, but I understood that this was the way people make money back in Lombok, Indonesia.
We used Sinar Rejeki, a minibus from the Mandalika Bus Teriminal in Sweta, Lombok to Kadindi village in Sumbawa and then only two of us went to Pancasila village in Sumbawa.
We took a motorcycle ride from Kadindi to Pancasila about 15 minutes and the cost was Rp. 15,000 Indonesian Rupiah (Rp.) (CAD$1.50).
When you travelling to Lombok or somewhere in Indonesia, except in big cities, it costs you nothing to buy goods, especially when you use with these currencies, such as Canadian, American dollars, British Pound, and Euro.
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