Indonesia Sayang - Beloved Indonesia
Fishermen at work |
Gili Meno |
Before Easter, still in low season, very few people go to the Gili Islands, no tourists around. We flew into Mataram on Lombok and took a direct bus to Senggigi. There we already had a reservation at Bumi Aditya, a small hotel with rooms for 120'000 IDR (9 EUR) per night. It is perfect for a night and they offer transfer from the hotel to the Gili Islands for 70'000 IDR (5 EUR) per person, which is not cheap but worth it as they organize it quite well considering the conditions there.
Familiar views |
With that settled, we fully enjoyed our holiday. We found the perfect place to stay (for us) and we knew where to get the best food on the island already. Travelling for such a long time made us miss things like looking forward to something, or knowing what you'd get or developing a routine. As we knew the place pretty well already thanks to our spectacular time with our dear friend Angela nine months before, we had a perfect time. We also went on a snorkeling tour and scuba diving. On the Gilis this feels like being in a huge aquarium, because the visibility is extraordinary and you see sharks and mantas on a regular basis. We definitely had a blast.
After this wonderful time we flew to Central Java, where I lived for a year and Fabs for eight months. Meeting our friends and family there was wonderful. We had only little time left and it was by far not enough to see everybody, but we saw many familiar faces and saw the babies that were born in the mean time and heard the stories our friends had to tell and we saw how incredibly fast things in SEA can change. Also politically, now with the new president in Indonesia, and how infrastructure improved and so on. It was definitely the right decision to go back once more, knowing that we will go back again and again. The time there and the people were too impressive to just forget about it. Thank you Indonesia for being wonderful to us!
More pictures from our last visit (so far) to Indonesia
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