Saturday, August 23, 2008

15th Aug:: Day 7 ~ Gili Islands

2nd day @ Lombok. To Gili Islands... much has been raved about Gili Islands in the publications... let's see if they're really THAT good...

Hercules: This is our boat to Gili Islands


Me checking out other boats... very narrow woh






It's a long 1hr to the islands by boat ...Sleeping jacQ: very wrapped up under the sun, like a tortilla ^^

1st stop: the biggest of the 3 islands, Gili T. Personally, I don't find the place so 'paradise', as mentioned in the books. Many dead corals that poked the feet. Water clarity comparable to other islands in M'sia/ Thailand. I prefer Perhentian ^^ And it's really HOT!!

On the islands, no motor vehicles are allowed, and transport are by foot, bicycle or horse-drawn carriage; this's the only novel idea about the islands =.=" food are not cheap, nor were they fantastic. But their architectures are quite chic though.

2nd Stop: Gili M... the 2nd biggest of the 3 islands... we had lunch & just lazed around. The gals discovered baby starfish near the shore (could hear their high-pitched squeak from where we sat -.-'')


We did nothing at Gili M... time to return to Lombok... on the way, we caught a glimpse of the sunset at sea (:



Emo vik??

Hey!! Here's how our fav Mie Sedaap looks like... SeDAAP!!! ^^

Plan after dinner: chill out by the beach @ Alberto Cafe (:

We had a hard time finding it... Alberto's was hidden by a mean-looking slope. Then the whole group was waylaid by this burger store.

After burgers, our manpower reduced by 50% as the people got sleepy & decided to head back to hotel. But for the few of us who persevered - liJEN, vik, marco, tara_tang, Yuen Simin, jacQ & me - we found paradise @ Alberto's.

Lucky us, we managed to get the cafe's free pick-up service which drove us over the slope and right to the cafe - in style ^^

It's set by the beach & we could have sands in our toes as we sat to dine ((:

Red wine selected by vik

The happy group who discovered paradise @ Alberto's

12am: time to drag our tired feet to ferry terminal (now my face turns really-really green when I hear "car ferry"). Another hellish 4hrs back to Bali island for the rest of our R&R *faintz*

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