Gili Trawangan Escape Day 1

Dear all, thanks again for stay tune with my Lombok aka Gili Trawangan post. Most of you may heard Gili Island before and there consist of 3 islands namely Gili Trawangan (tourist spot), Gili Meno and Gili Air (if you prefer less crowd for chilling). You can go to Gili Trawangan from Bali or Lombok. Either way through speed boat (IDR350K per way) or public boat (free according to schedule and they only move when the boat is full). 

This is my first time going to Lombok and I booked the flight earlier 2015 for 2016. Pretty insane. I am very lucky to have Jane with me, if you follow my blog, I met her in UMF Korea 2015. We are still good friend till now and amazingly we like to travel. First stop in Lombok we stayed overnight in IDOOP Hotel, which is pretty budget and OK. 

Advise for you is to buy SIMPATI near the city. Cause we bought it in rural area, they owner do not know how to activate the simcard and tell us, here no line you need to go city to get it connected. I am not sure if you buy the idea, if here no line, why you sell simcard. Luckily our driver get us sorted after settle down in our hotel. What's wrong is the owner register his own shop number instead he is suppose to register the official number. Mannnnnn. Well getting 4G data is pretty important for me, because I want to go around the island by foot.  

If you use speed boat it takes 20 minutes to go from Lombok to Gili Tranwangan. If public boat it takes 45 minutes to 1 hour. Reaching there, you can actually walk or rent a bicycle at IDR 75K which is pretty reasonable. Never ever expect any car exist in this place. They use cidomo (you can also called it horse cart) as the main transportation. Pssp* beware of horse poo, it's available on the road. Cidomo can cost you IDR 50K, if it cost more than that, please don't ride on it. You are CHEATED. 

Here we stayed in M'dison Gili (Fiona Room) personally do not really recommended this place because of the creaky sound when you walk or sleep on the bed. The bathroom is open air, it's wonderful to poo at night and look at the million star. The other hand, when the sunrise, you gonna get sunburn for poo-ing too long. That's the big bang. You are going to dance on the hot stony floor if you wanna shower. Something wrong with the shower too, getting too hot that is gonna burn you. What's nice, probably the breakfast, I ordered pancake. Big portion and well done. Others, NAYYY.  

My day 1 itinerary is joining the Jiggy Boat Party. It's a must try and do in Gili Trawangan. My first boat party, most importantly go with your lovely friend. Gili, someone call it a party island as well. My advice is to arrange a Jiggy Boat Party with full moon party. It's awesome to party here.

Hopping into a random restaurant, trying out the western food while waiting for the party to start. Hell yeah. We are getting excited because this is our first time in unknown island trying out something new. NO REGRET. Joining the party, you are entitled with a drink. It cause about RM95 per head (girls' price). Guy is double, don't ask me why. Hehe. 

(This is a sweet couple I met on the boat, NOT me. Hehe)

Here I met people from Amsterdam, Australia, France, Germany, Spain and etc. They are easy going person. We dance and we party hard. My experience in the boat is splendid. In the middle of the dance I empty my cup and start collecting melted ice water from the big container and pouring at random people. Similar like ice bucket challenge semi songkran. WHYY NOTT right, two experience in one. Enjoy the sunset together, raise our hand and singing at the edge of the boat. This always put my smile on again and again whenever I think about it. Oh I did boat jumping as well. 

Given a chance I would definitely coming back again with different buddy and meeting new people here.