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Awakening in Paradise
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Awakening in Paradise
I awoke the morning after our arrival to Gili Air on a majestically comfortable bed in a beautiful bungalow with hardwood floors and a high ceiling of wooden beams wondering how we had gotten so lucky. I opened the front door to a courtyard of lush, green and flowering trees, small fish and turtle ponds and immaculately-kept lawns. Since we had arrived in the dark, I had no idea we had landed in paradise. Our wooden balcony sported two bamboo chairs and a small table as well as an oversized hammock. When we walked down the perfectly manicured path of stones to the restaurant bungalow, we were greeted with a "Selamat pagi" (Good morning) by our gracious host, Yanis and three other girls who also worked at Sejuk. We were then handed a menu and prepared a breakfast of omelettes, large fruit smoothies and colorful fruit plates so delicious they could have been featured in a cooking magazine.
After praising the girls' amazing cooking, we wandered down the road towards one of the two dive centers on Gili Air. The people at Blue Marlin were helpful and kind and we signed ourselves up for two dives that same day. Dedy, our Indonesian divemaster took us out on the first dive to Hans Reef where we got to see some impressive coral and many little fishies. Our second dive of the day was at Gili Air Wall where we spotted a really cool turtle!
A few more dives under our belts, we headed out for dinner. Along the one and only road that wraps around the island, there were many choices of warungs (restaurants), many boasting plates of fish that had been caught that very day at their entrances. Not one warung had walls (only four posts holding up a roof) and almost all had open air huts on the sand, just a few feet from the ocean. We had yet another delicious meal, this time at Sasak, sitting on large cushy pillows, sipping pina coladas...sure beats the cold winter back home!
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