Manta Dive Gili Trawangan

... scheduled an afternoon dive with the same dive master, Herman. We grabbed lunch, discovered the joy of the hammocks at the dive shop (Manta Dive- GREAT!!) and rested up. The afternoon dive was Manta Point. There was better coral and colors. We saw 2 ...

... bar were tasty, but almost booze free. We bought Corrado (he is one of the extremely helpful and friendly dive masters at Manta Dive) a drink. Alison finally called it after yet another bad drink at Rudy's. Travelers note: Avoid the local spirits, ...

... tourist operator Kate and I were in and understandably poor mood, and were quite short with each other whilst sailing across to Gili Trawangan.  Even more so because we had originally intended to go to Gili Air, but had accepted passage to Trawangan ...

... skinny dipping in some random guys hotel swimming pool). She was off to Oz and I was heading to the Gili Islands for more diving. I signed up to Manta Dive. Not having ever dived in strong currents before drift diving was going to be a new thing for me. ...

... on Gili Trawangan. Lisa was sick and I was nurse (and dive master). On to Bali! Sean heading out to the dive site. Gili Trawangan, Lombok Is that Nemo? Clown fish hide out in a sea anenome. Gili Trawangan, Lombok Tips for travelers - ...

We had been due to arrive at Gili Trawangan at approximately 5pm. It was now after 7, which is about par for the course with any transport in Indonesia. We wandered up the main street, looking for places to stay. First of all, we checked out Warna ...

... take them home. Or maybe they were just jealous that it was only Tim that was getting kisses from them :-) We moved in Manta Dive bungalows for our last few days, the bungalows are very  luxurious, but perhaps were not appreciated as much ...

... the place. It was deliciously cold when we went inside and offered a much-welcomed respite from the unrelenting heat and humidity of Gili Trawangan. The downside of the places, Lumbung Cottages, was that they were set WAY off the main road. In order to ...

... I sat out (in another bar with less scary waiters) and had a drink and just enjoyed being there). The other thing to tell about Gili Trawangan was the people we met there. Apart from out cockney waiter who's name we didn't get we met Edi and Gandhi. ...

... 6am to go the Gili islands. We got taken to Padang bay first by bus (1.5hrs) and then got the fast boat across to Gili Trawangan (1.5hrs). The fast boat is expensive but the slow boat can take anything from 4-8 hours depending on a number of things! One ...