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Indonesia - Gili Islands

Posted by tomcoralie | 22nd August 2009

In the morning we rose early and walked off to the little harbour to catch the speedboat for the 1.5hr journey to the Gili Islands which are just off Lombok. We had bargained hard for our ticket the previous day and had got it down to about $45US each. There was a cheap public ferry and bus for about $5US but the journey would have taken 9 hours (no thanks!). Anyway, our speedboat had 5 outboard motors on the back and we zipped across the glassy sea under bright sunshine passing the stunning volcano and highest mountain on Bali called Mount Agung.

Once we landed on Gili Trawangan (the largest and most outgoing of the three Gili Islands) we wandered down the main street looking for some bungalow huts to stay in. The great thing about the Gili Islands is that no motorised vehicles are aloud. Luckily the islands are small enough that you can walk all the way around the outside in an hour or two or you can hire a horse

Continued | Tom & Coralie's 2008 / 2009 travel diary

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