Gili Trawangan - a must see

Gili Trawangan is a great little island off the northern coast of Lombok. It's part of a series of three islands, collectively called the Gili Islands - Trawangan is the largest, Meno and Air are much smaller. And largest is a relative term. Gili T was about 4 km the whole way around. You can bike it in one hour. It's so small they don't even have police, just local village people who take care of any "problems".











We stayed at a cute little place called Buddha Dive in the central area and spent the first day just walking around checking out the tiny island. There's basically one main dirt alley with restaurants, bars and small guesthouses on either side. We spent six days total here, but could have spent a minimum of ten. It's a great place to just relax and unwind. We basically just sat at the beach, or walked around town the whole time.

We all did a yoga class at Gili Yoga - Andrea, you would have loved this place. At night we would go to one of the local bars for a few drinks.

After three days at Buddha Dive, we decided to treat ourselves to a really nice place. We got a two bedroom villa with a private pool at The Trawangan and it was heaven. We spent the next three days mainly at the villa, living the life.















This is a really abbreviated post about what we did in Gili, but it was mostly lounging around or riding bikes around the island. There are no cars or motos allowed, just bikes and cidomos, small horse-drawn carriages. After six days of hanging out, we decided to head back to the real world and see southern Bali. We had heard Kuta sucks because it is super crowded but wanted to check it out for ourselves. Off for our last long travel day! 7 hours in vans, ferries, and cars.