Travelogues West Nusa Tenggara

Expectation for the day: Lots of sitting, lots of waiting, arriving late at the accommodation. After breakfast, we leave the Ibludan Hotel by taxi towards Bangsal. Upon arriving...

The islands (= Gilis in Indonesian) Trawangan, Air, and Meno in the northwest of Lombok are well known to many people. However, it has been relatively unknown that there are...

The first morning on Gili Air is eventful. You have to get used to being woken up here not by the sun, but around 5 o'clock by the calls of the muezzin, as the inhabitants of...

I traveled to Mataram primarily because I wanted to extend my visa by 30 days at a branch of the immigration office there. I had already done my research and found out that it...

7 full days on Gili T! A small island without cars and scooters. Almost everyone is cycling or running and the atmosphere is immediately quieter and more pleasant. I hit the...

The port of Gili T

Dinner

Lombok hat einiges zu bieten. Vor allem eine wunderschöne Natur

After a delicious breakfast on Gili Air, we set off to the harbor with our backpacks. We buy two tickets for the 'public boat' that is supposed to take us to Lombok. Unlike the...

March 19, 2024 Lombok In the morning I saw the film “Justice League” in the cinema. Not particularly remarkable. At lunch our "100 days at sea" was celebrated with a...

Do you remember the beginning of the year? When I said after my volcano hike in Panama that I would never hike up a volcano at night again? Now I already have 2 more on my list...

After our tour of Bali, we started from Padangbai with a speedboat to the Gilis (Gili = small island). Gili Trawangan, Meno, and Air are the three largest and most famous "small...

27.07.19 After a quite restless night, we sit somewhat groggy on our terrace and have breakfast; Jonna gets some fruit from the stand next door. Check-out here is already at...

In August, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 shook Lombok. Even on the nearby Gili Islands, which we visited for a few days, you can still see some debris, but most of the...

Yesterday we booked the crossing to the small island of Gili Air via the internet. Since Ubud is not anywhere near the water, we also booked the 1 ½ hour drive to the port. We...

Island life over the last few days has been quite frugal and staying here has slowed things down noticeably. I'm not sure if I've ever moved as slowly as I have here in my...

3 nights with little sleep behind us, we were looking forward to a few relaxing days in Lombok. We took the public boat from Gili T to Lombok, specifically to Bangsal, and from...

Gili Trawangan turned out to be a real surprise. Branded a bit as a party island, we wanted to decide against it, but it really was fantastic. The boat trip from Sanur to Gili...

Angekommen in der Stadt Kuta mussten wir leider schnell feststellen, dass unsere Unterkunft alles andere als sauber war. Im Bett waren viele Haare, das Laken und die Handtücher...

Yesterday we arrived on Gili Trawangan. The speedboat ride was torture - crowded boat, cramped seats, no air conditioning, and the windows had to remain closed because of the...

Hey guys, Our day started today at 7:30 am once again with the gentle ringing of the alarm clock. Since we had a night out in the clubs and bars last night, we didn't get much...

From Ubud, I traveled to Gili Air with Laura and Julian. The Gilis are a small group of islands in the north of Lombok. Gili Trawangan is the party island, Gili Meno is the...

After spending 2 eventful weeks on beautiful Bali, it was time to go to the Gili Islands, a group of islands nearby Lombok. The 3 islands are known as paradisiacal places with...

30.07.19 Halfway. We have reached the halfway point of our approximately 180-day journey. From now on, we have more behind us than ahead - a strange feeling. On one hand, time...

Then we continued by speedboat to the Gili Islands, which belong to Lombok, east of Bali. We had chosen Gili Air, as Gili Trawangan is known as the party island and there isn't...

22.12.2018 After a few relaxing days on the beaches of Kuta, we rented a motorbike and headed north to Tetebatu with small luggage... About 40 km away from Kuta. The village is...

Zwischen Sonnenaufgang und Sonnenuntergang tauchen und faul am Strand herum liegen

Our plans in Padangbai (a day trip to Tirta Ganga Temple) were canceled because Philipp woke up with a fever in the morning and couldn't go on the tour. So we had everything...

Today we traveled east into the interior of the island with our scooter to see several waterfalls and rice terraces at the foot of the volcano. The scooter tour has once again...

Breakfast