Day 15 - Journey to Gili Air

Today was a relatively early start of 0730 to get down to the harbour for our transfer to Gili Air.

The two hour drive took us back down the mountain and through the small little villages and towns. Towards the harbour I noticed some Hindu temples that we just hadn’t seen any of whilst over in Lombok. According to Sookiyo, the Hindus stay within their own community and so it was a little like being back in Bali with about a 2 minute drive through colourful temples and statues.

We also experienced more marching than we had seen on any other day. It was getting closer to the 17th so all of the schools were out marching and singing and saluting to the official markers who were scoring them on their marching abilities. Other than marching in time, we couldn’t really work out what else they were being scored on.

We arrived at the “harbour”, a tiny little cove with small wooden boats where we waited for our private transfer which turned out to be relatively modern and motorised! We piled in with our bags, climbed on board and off we went. The journey only took 20 minutes if that and we were lucky enough to arrive at high tide so our captain could just ground the boat straight onto the beach by our hotel.

We arrived about 10:30 and spent the day on the beach, drinking cocktails, having lunch and just generally enjoying an afternoon of downtime, something that had been relatively rare for the last 3 weeks.