Not far away from the northwest corner of Lombok are three idyllic islands, Gili Trawangan, Gili Air, and Gili Meno. They are the beautiful and well known islands near Bali.
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| Gili Harbour |
My friends and I decided to visit those islands on our trip to Bali last March 2011. I just love the idea that I could also experienced the diving as I just got my Open Water License Early Jan 2011. For me Gili Islands are wonderful, exotic and paradise where the sand are still powdery white, the water is such a crystal clear – sparkling in turquoise and the sunsets over Bali’s volcano Mt. Agung was spectacularly stunning.
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| Gili Harbour |
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| Gili Meno |
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| Gili Air |
For food there’s no doubt that you can find various type of restaurants from Irish, Italian, Asian to Japanese, anything you just name it. My recommendation is that you should have dinner or try Scallywags Lobster or reef prawns, hhmmm mamamia.
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| Scallywags Restaurant in Gili Air |
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| waiting for Sunset Paradise Bar (taken by: Tania M) |
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| amazing sunset moment at Paradise Bar |
Great food, great parties, great life and freedom; are soul recuperation that absolutely you can taste for living in these islands.
We’re very lucky that we're also experienced the Full Moon Party, they usually organized the party once a month. The crowds was enthusiastic and been issued for the whole week before it’s began.
Getting there is so easy and whichever you choose, you will surely get to see a lot beautiful scenery of Bali and Lombok. Very stunning!
You can fly to Lombok, then from Airport Mataram - Teluk Nara (40 min driving) – Speedboat to Gili (15 min), or if you are from Bali you can go by speedboat or ferri. We were taking speed boat from Bali, just around 1 hour and 30 min. The price was IDR 600.000 returned ticket.
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Activities are same old same, like we used to do in the beach: snorkeling, diving, sea kayak, trekking to Mount. Rinjani and cycling around the islands, Islands Hopping (Inc. snorkeling) IDR 75.000 and for people like my friends who long to get tanned skin, you’re in the right place.
Rent a bicycle for 1 day (24 hours) around IDR 50.000
Private trip to Gili Air (only for if you stay in Scallywags Resort) + including the lunch is IDR 100.000/person.
Diving in Gili, you can contact:
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Several choices for hotels, from budget hotels to one luxuries place to stay. We were selected several hotels like The Beach House, Buddha Dives, Villa Ombak, Scallywags and Villa Unggul but then our choice felt for the great Scallywags! It was very very nice staying there.
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| faces of happiness of four lucky girls |
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| outdoor toilet |
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| outdoor shower |
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| Scallywags swimming pool |
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| Scallywags Restaurant |
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| dinner view heading to the magnificent Mount Rinjani |
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Meal = -/+ IDR 350.000 (Inc. lunch in Gili Air organized by Scallywags)
Speedboat Bali - Gili - Bali = IDR 600.000
Island Hopping = IDR 75.000
Rent a Bicycle = IDR 50.000 (1 Day)
Diving (2 spot diving) = IDR 700.000
Others = IDR 200.000
TOTAL = -/+ IDR 2.575.000 / -/+ USD 280
Calculate My Budget (3D/2N)
Accommodation = -/+ IDR 600.000Meal = -/+ IDR 350.000 (Inc. lunch in Gili Air organized by Scallywags)
Speedboat Bali - Gili - Bali = IDR 600.000
Island Hopping = IDR 75.000
Rent a Bicycle = IDR 50.000 (1 Day)
Diving (2 spot diving) = IDR 700.000
Others = IDR 200.000
TOTAL = -/+ IDR 2.575.000 / -/+ USD 280
