Showing posts with label lombok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lombok. Show all posts
Day 85 of the 365 grateful days project:

"I'm grateful to have an amazing breezy clean air in Gili Air all alone with hubby."

It just feels different.

When you live in Bali, you don't even dare to think of it as a holiday place. Every morning I anticipate the traffic jam, the people shouting at each other on the street, the road blocks, etc. Of course if I were a tourist, I wouldn't see Bali that way. Compared to many cities in and out of Indonesia, Bali is still a cool destination to go to with a lot of interesting places to discover. However, when you feel that you have discovered everything... it's time to see other islands.

And Gili Air was such a perfect place to cool off. No motor-anything, just dirt roads, bicycles, (almost) virgin beaches, and the smell of the sea mixed with fresh grass mixed with horsepoo (whaaat...). :)
But it's nature. And nature is a lot better than carbondioxided air.

I've been dozing off on a bale of Warung Santay while hubby is busy with his book (HE IS REALLY READING A BOOK! How vacation makes you do abnormal things).

The holiday starts out great. And it will be better tomorrow.

Day 84 of 365 grateful days:

"I am grateful to be going to Gili Air tomorrow for our first wedding anniversary weekend."

We need holiday, period. Both of us worked hard and I spent most of my time working and belly dancing, which lately felt like keeping us apart in a way.

After such an amazing 1920's wedding last year, this cannot happen! We need to bond even stronger than before! So I'm glad we decided to go for this short weekend getaway.

We are so looking forward to Saturday morning!


These people live in a village with hay roofs close by the central tourism area -- which is not like the other over crowded hype tourist places you imagine -- in Kuta, Lombok.

Ana, the woman, has 3 children. Her first two are twin girls who were very shy in the beginning, but became very excited when shown their pictures on my LCD screen.

Most East Lomboknese live their live from fishery and soy bean farming. Every now and then you'll notice some neat row of soy bean in branches being dried in the sun in front of traditional Lombok houses.