Gili Islands
Travel Blogs from Gili Islands, Indonesia
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Well from lovina i endured a slow bus and ...
... appeared to have simmered down now. The first thing i saw when i stepped off the ferry was a shiny new mosque, followed shortly after by a large McDonald's and KFC signpost!! Gili Twanagan (one of 3 small islands) cont... ...
As Close as it Gets to Paradise
Monday morning I took a boat from Lombok to Gili Trawangan, the largest and most popular of the three Gili islands.After jumping off the front of the small boat, flip flops in hand as I made my way through the shallow water and up the beach, I made my way ...
Scuba diving, beach bars & a tropical paradise
... islands... we stayed in the Gili islands for 6 glorious days and loved every minute of it. Trawangan, the largest of the 3 Gili islands, is a beautiful island full of palm trees and surrounded by coral reefs and warm, crystal clear, turquoise water. it ...
Giddy about the Gilis
In true South East Asia style, our promised 7-hour journey to the Gili islands turned out to be a 12-hour trip, involving two ferries and three buses - one of which we had to give a push start to as it was so clapped out. But what's five hours between ...
Gili Islands
The tiny Gili Islands off the coast of Lombok were a great place to spend a few relaxing days. We stayed on Gili Trawangan, the busiest of the 3, although there were still no more than a couple of dozen tourists on the island. The snorkeling here is ...
Hammock & Weed
... some ducklings out to sea, I thought they were slitting their throats. Would have made for a better story. The Gili islands are 3 small islands all in close proximity to one another and Bali's neighbouring island of Lombok. Trawangan, Meno and Air. We ...
Gili Trawangan
... beneath and all around us. Hours and hours of this were endured until our prayers were answered the lights of the tiny Gili Islands became visible over the surf. Staggering up the beach in complete darkness and with strong wind whistling through the trees ...
My Desert Island
I'm in paradise. Staying in a beach bunglow on the beach on Gili Meno - the middle of 3 tiny islands off the north coast of Lombok (Bali's next door neighbour to the east). The whole of Lombok is under developed & v basis but this place is just ...
Indonesia 04
... showering in salt water - soap does not lather and there is not a lot of point in having expensive shampoos!! Life on the Gili islands is pretty chilled - there is no concept of time, every one knows everyone else and you move at your own pace. After ...
Anyone for a watery grave?
... boats aren't seaworthy. BUT they recommend the Perama tourist boat as a reliable way of getting from Bali to the Gili islands. It's little wonder the Lonely Planet travel guides get re-named 'Lonely Liar'. The Perama tourist boat was ...
Uge 8: 4 days in Paradise!
... vi ned til oeens festlige hoejdepunkt, nemlig 'Fullmoonparty', for som navnet antyder, var der nemlig i denne tid fuldmaane paa Gili - niiiiice! Vi havde en super sjov aften med baade svenskere og englaendere og noed at se paa mennesker med normal ...
Sengigi and Gili islands
... sink. Anyway all in all we made it to Gili Trawangan. Made a friend on the way over. Howie. Howie from the UK. Gili islands have fantastic beaches, Extremmly cheap accommodation and lots and lots of alcohol. What more could you want from a island that ...
A week on the coral fringed Gili Islands
... . Luckily i did not get sea sick, thanks to the scopaderm patches. We arrived on the most developed of the three Gili Islands, Gili Trawangan, where we stayed for 4 days. We then moved on to the smaller Gili Air for another few nights. Unfortunately ...
Lombok and the gili islands
Paradise indeed.....beautiful beaches, no vehicles, just donkey carts.......proper relaxation...... couple of weeks here then back to bali for a week then off to thailand ...
Life Underwater
... can see the volcano in Lombak on one side of the island and the volcano in Bali on the other. An true island oasis. Take a peek! http://www.gili-paradise.com/gili-island/index.php Anyway i'm off to eat...love and hugs - thinking of you ...
The Gili Islands
I went to the Gili Islands for about a week. They are in the North Coast of Lombok. It is absolutly beautilful here. I spent 4 nights on Gili Trawangan, 1 night on Gili Air, and one night on Gili Meno. I did my ...
This is fighting with the Andoman Islands #1 spot
We spent five nights on Gili Islands on the largest of the three - Gili Trawangan. Im begining to feel the benifits of small Island life. I think that in big places, big cities etc... its not as easy to chat to people as it is on a small island. Gili ...
Chilled out idyllic islands...
... Lombok, which during the dry season, is (apparently) a strenuous, but worthwhile climb. We met an interesting character on Gili Air. Jan, a German occupational therapist who was taking a break from work at an orphanage on Lombok. Jan, with the aid ...
Trawangan
... known to turn up and play unannounced sets. Parties are held three nights a week but are curtailed during the month of Ramadan. Read ...
April trip to Gili Islands
... keen to get as much business of you as possible, but heck that's how they live. We stayed on Gili air there are 2 other islands, Gili Mono, very quiet make a good place for monks and gili T, which is pretty much a party island. All of the islands ...
Paradise island
We stayed few days on one of the most beautifull island in the world, one thig to do: ...
Goodbye to the southern hemisphere!
... work. Apart from the two Swedish girls, who were getting an overnight bus instead and who I would later meet again in the Gili Islands, we then caught shuttle buses at 9:00am to Probolinggo. We had been told our direct bus to Denpasar in Bali left ...
Things I've learned
... are only 3) for hours playing stupid games. Hello!! Some people have things to do! I want to punch their parents. 2. Indonesia is Mexico but with better beaches. There are vendors EVERYWHERE that stalk you to buy crap. Using my ...
The Germans and the Canadian!
... Elena and Yendis, a lovely crew of Germans, invited me along to Indonesia. Elena and I flew first to Lombok and proceeded to the Gili Islands to scuba dive and relax and then ferried over to Bali to meet Sarah and Yendis for a few days of typical Bali ...
Love this place!
Unfortunately I can't upload any pictures from Gili yet, but it is by far the most beautiful. My suitcase with all of my connector cables is still in Bali. I'm trying to talk the fast boat driver into picking it up and bringing it back here ...
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!!!
My luggage arrived fom Bali on the boat this morning!! Dude, I seriously feel like the smartest person on earth for making that happen! It took like three days of negotiations. I prayed to tom cruise, oprah winfrey and the jewish god, but ...
The Gilis
... to do "next time," something to come back for. We decided that our time would be better spent checking out the much-hyped Gili Islands: a set of 3 small sandy, vehicle-free, coral-ringed islands just off the Lombok coast. We took a speed boat to the ...
Gili Islands
The Gili Islands are located just off the northwest tip of Lombok, Indonesia. The Gili Islands are a traveller’s haven located in the northwest tip of Lombok in Indonesia. The three islands boast pristine white-sand beaches and clear turquoise ...
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