Gili Trawangan
Travel Blogs from Gili Trawangan, Indonesia
The Gili Islands
... , unfortunately much of the coral is dead and it wasn't a patch on the Perhentian Islands. After two nights we moved on to Gili Trawangan, the "party island". It was quite sad to see this beautiful island trying to be Ko Phi Phi, at times it towed the ...
Time for the buddy check
... along the beach dead in their tracks. The whole night we talked about how lucky all of us are to be in the Gilis in Indonesia for this experience. Not sure what time we finally made it to bed. Travelers note: When picking a room on Gili be aware ...
Time to stuff the sausage please
Slept in until the afternoon dive time, the gods were with us as the electricity stayed on so we had air con and the roosters were relatively quiet. We dove Meno Bounty, which is a sunken former floating restaurant. We called it tire point due to all the ...
Cycling the Island
... for a few years and now considering relocating to Gili T. to be with the boyfriend. I admire her adaptability although I don't think Gili T. is the place I would choose to raise kids for any length of time. Unable to locate a flight within Malaysia, I ...
Island fever
After another morning of banana pancakes we decide to spend another day in Gili doing a walking tour of the tiny island. We book our transport to our next destination, Ubud back in Bali. We than head north along the beach stopping to swim, snorkel, ...
Damn chickens! and dive pictures
The entire trip we had been plagued by the sound of chickens. I thought those F'ing things started at sunrise but noooo, they like to get going around 3 a.m. We've had a bunch of them living near our bungalow and they've been keeping me up every night. ...
Bloody Mary? Bloody hell!
... Air compared to Trawangan but had it’s own quiet charm. We decided that we were quite glad that we had just stayed on Gili Trawangan and not spent a couple of nights on each island (this was what we intended at first) as it was nice to have a ...
The best cinema in the world
... we didn’t have to leave until 10.30am. We had decided over dinner that we couldn’t leave without climbing Trawangan Hill in the morning before breakfast so wanted to give ourselves plenty of time in case it took longer than ...
Let’s get silly on the Gili’s
... on our hit list as well. We then had about another 15 minutes past the other two Gili Islands before landing on Gili Trawangan. The island on arriving was another beautiful paradise island but after a few conversations we thought it may actually hit our ...
No better way to wake up a cock down your ear hole
... of Lombok just across the water from us. We went for a late lunch at a warung across from our huts called Warung Indonesia and had a fried chicken and rice and a Nasi Goreng. The chicken was tiny, I think it was a chick and Andrew even thought he ...
The quest for a cheap beer
We made an early start this morning after our relatively long sleep. Andrew had lost a few pairs of ear plugs in the night, god knows where, so hadn't had the greatest sleep added to by the ribs still hurting but I on the other hand (with my amazing ...
Diving Diva
... and Burcu and Umut from Turkey. A few are experienced divers while Carolyn and Cullum only just completed their open water with Gili Divers and Lauren earlier in the week. We were introduced to Jeremy our dive captain, a California native from Whittier. ...
We Jump together, We swim together
... up. Thank goodness Jason hooked us up with Dramamine or we would have been feeding the fish as well. We did make it to Gili Trawangan safely and were amazed with the little islands blue water. We were greeted by a couple touts with little pony and ...
Gili T.
... for the fast boat with time to spare. The Gili Islands are located on the northwestern tip of Lombok and are made up of Gili Trawangan aka the party island; Gili Meno, the high end resort, honeymoon island and Gili Air, which falls somewhere in between. ...
Paradise Island
I caught the speedboat to the Island of Gili Trawangan for 2 days to escape the hassles of Kuta. This took 2 hours at high speed and I got completely soaked on route as the boat smashed through the waves! The boat broke down about halfway along and I ...
The Wonders of Soil and Water
... it. Ingo was stressed trying to deal with the fish's minuscule bones. Before getting on board and along the way back to Trawangan, we took some photographs together. On Trawangan we departed our ways. Germans, Italians, Indonesian ...
Gili Trawangan - Day 166-172
... was pouring over the sides. After a few minutes of tension, the sea calmed down and the boat finally stuck sand Gili Trawangan! I was warned about the lack of affordable accommodation on the island, the warning turned out to be completely true. Walked ...
Gili Trawangan - Day 176-179
... to book something, wouldn't have left the island otherwise. Could have easily stayed here until my visa ran out. The Gili's and Indonesia in general have been invaded by the French. So many French travellers and holiday makers in the country at the ...
Did you see the monkey fish?
A full day's journey brought us to be boating to little Gili Trawangan at sunset. Off in the distance, Bali's volcano was looming out of the clouds, dark gray against a technicolor sky. It was beautiful. Thus began yet another island ...
Not doing much at the moment
... he wears clothes i.e. you can see the outline of the body, but not actually see any of the person underneath. Between Lombok and Gili Trawangan we had to venture onto a small boat that perhaps only carried 12 people at a time. The boat was small and the ...
Sandals and strap marks
... a limp just to try to stop the toe post from coming out all of the time. We booked ourselves on to the 3 Islands snorkelling trip around Gili Trawangan, Gili Air and Gili Meno the next day and bargained the guy down by 15,000 Rupiah each to 120,000 Rupiah ...
Diving into the Night
... on Trawagnan. And we wanted that license. Then we hauled ourselves after our gear onto a tiny boat and shot over to Gili Meno and its sunken pier. Thus, our first night dive would also be our first wreck dive, but the wreck wasn't quite ...
My First Encounter with an Earthly Paradise
... houses (Rumah Panggung). In less than an hour, with occasional stops to enjoy the view, I was back to where I had started. Gili Trawangan, the biggest among the three Gilis, and also the most crowded, is truly the ideal place to where you can retreat ...
Welcome to My Paradise - Quotes from Trawangan
... format, I've lost most of the best quotes to my horrible short term memory. Here are a few of my favorites that I wrote down from Gili Trawangan. Sandy: Now this is what I expected Bali to be like. (looking out over the beach) Ray: Too bad we're on an ...
Scary boat ride to a kinda paradise
Day 256 ; The boat ride over to gili trawangan was pretty bad - thought we were done for more than once, we were on a wooden boat that was carrying far too much weight in a less than calm sea, and every time the bust rolled we were watching the timber ...
Project 330, Week 12
... ! As you can see on the table, Abi was adding volumes to her scrapbook as well. 4/2/12 – Now on Gili Trawangan, one of a trio of tiny islands just off the North West of Lombok, we were subjected to an unyielding downpour, which turned ...
Beach bums
... the staff were nuts - probably due to the properties of certain mushrooms that they sold! A few pics from our time on Gili Trawangan: After 7 days we headed back to Bali where we spent 2 more nights in Ubud before catching a flight ...
Beach BBQ
OUR BLOG After breakfast we got all our gear together to walk through the island and into town. In truth it is not a town but a length of the islands coast that has cafes, restaurants, little shops and travel agents. We wanted to find a free Wifi place, ...
Last Day on the Gillis
OUR BLOG Our last day in Gili Trawangan and the Gili Islands. At breakfast we asked to borrow some snorkel gear and as soon as we finished eating we headed for the blue waters. It was so easy to get into the sea at high tide, something we learnt a bit ...

