GILI NANGGU – GILI SUDAK –
GILI KEDIS
After spending my 1st
2 days in Jerowaru during my trip exploring Lombok, I continued my trip to
Mataram, the capital city of Lombok, where I met another 2 Malaysian travelers
Rafi & Ana, who I already talked to for a while and planned to travel together to some
places in Lombok. We stayed for few nights in my brother’s rental room.
In the evening, we met up
with some other travelers and friends and ended up making plan to travel
together the next day to Sekotong – West Lombok to see some gilis around. They
were also willing to bring their car so we all could go together. Btw fyi, in
Lombok now they have Uber, Grab-Car and Gojek so it’s super easy to go from one
place to another, but it’s not that many yet so sometimes we had to wait longer
but that was a good progress. And when we had to use public transport, we would
share the cost so it would be so much cheaper.
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Otw to Sekotong
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On boat to Gilis
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It took less than 2 hours
driving from Mataram to Sekotong and our friends from Lombok Uken & Wira
were very helpul. The boat price is Rp. 100,000/gili and we went to 3 gilis, we
supposed to pay Rp. 300,000 but we got Rp. 50,000 discount. Since me, Rafi and
Ana wanted to go snorkeling but we couldn’t swim -,- so we rent snorkel gears
and life-jackets that costs Rp. 50,000/set (Mask & Life-jacket). We rent 3
and got 1 additional mask for free.
Our 1st stop
was Gili Nanggu, I think it’s the most famous one, I heard about it a lot. It
took only 20 minutes boat ride to get there. But there were already many other
visitors there, so we just got into 1 of the gazebos, left our stuff there and
went snorkeling. But before I got into water I took some pictures, I always think
about doing that before I get wet :D. Well to be honest, the underwater was not
as good as I expected. I just met some fish and didn’t really see any corals,
but I think I was just snorkeling in a wrong spot even tho I saw many other
people around me. But the boat guy said that in the other part of the island it
has better corals but we were to lazy too move -,-.
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Gili Nanggu
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| Gili Nanggu |
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Ana, Rafi and Me
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An hour later we moved to
Gili Sudak, it took about 15 minutes boat ride to Gili Nanggu, I’ve actually
been there once few years ago but I was happy to be back. It looked better than
before, I guess because it was more sunny that day than on my last visit. Many
other visitors too but not as many as in Gili Nanggu. There is a restaurant and
a hotel in Gili Sudak. We went to the restaurant and only ordered one grilled
fish with chilli sauce for 5 of us :D. Uken and Wira brought lunch for us tho
so the grilled fish was just unnecessary additional lunch but we needed to buy
something so we would be able to chill at the restaurant chairs. But the
grilled fish was nice. The size was
actually only for 2 persons and it costs Rp. 75,000.
We chilled and talked and
joked around then the girls went snorkeling for a bit. Not really snorkeling
actually but was just getting into water and took some pictures -,-. It was so
cold when we were out of water. Oh btw we didn’t pay any entrance fee here but
we paid Rp. 5,000/person in Gili Nanggu.
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| Gili Sudak |
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| Gili Sudak |
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| Gili Sudak |
After Gili Sudak, we
continued to our last stop, Gili Kedis which was 15 minutes boat ride. It was
my most favorite of all, it took only 10 minutes to walk around the whole
island, it was so tiny and if u see it from the air, the island shapes like a
heart, aww romantic, but nah we didn’t need romance. Surrounded by white sands
and the water was so clear. Even tho I hate that many other people around but I
didn’t really care and was so confident taking so many pictures in front of
those people. I guess no one cared about each other -,-.
No one of us went
snorkeling, we just walked around to take pictures and enjoyed the view. I felt
so good to be there. Wishing I could own it for myself that I could build my
private beach villa L. It felt so perfect, it was like I didn’t wanna go
home. There was a swing that I had no chance to get on -,- and sweet couples
around L. I took so many nice pictures there that I had a hard
time to choose which ones to post :D
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| Gili Kedis |
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| Gili Kedis |
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| Gili Kedis |
We finished the whole trip
around 3 pm, we were planning on going to nearby beach to see sunset. I was
pretty sleepy that I fell asleep in the car that I didn’t know that we were
climbing up till I felt something weird. Our car got stuck in the middle of the
uphill road. It was pretty bad that it took almost couple hours and that we
needed like 10 other guys to help us to move the car. It was pretty scary
especially when the car went down and almost hit the motorbike and people
behind. But it was an interesting experience, Uken and Wira were so nice that even
after the accident they took us to have dinner at the other beach near Mataram.
It was sunset time but no one cared about that anymore and just focus on eating
and being grateful that we were just fine :)
That day was still perfect
with all its good and bad memories and big thanks to Uken and Wira for their
kindness and sincere friends, I’ll definitely will meet them again.
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| Ana, Rafi, Me, Wira & Uken |
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