It's a long holiday since it's Nyepi or Tahun Baru Saka(Caka) 1930 for Hindhu people, we went to Lombok from Bali by ferry. All 11 persons rode 6 motorcycles. First day to Pantai Kuta. Second day we directed to Gili Islands and stayed for 2 days. We snorkeled, rode bicycle around the island (no motor vehicle allowed there) and had fun. After a minor accident (one of us got hit and gave her a broken finger), we managed to went home safely at 00.00 on Sunday.
While snorkeling around the Gilis, we got stunk by many tiny jelly-fish. it was like hundreds of them floating around the surface. and it made me loosing my interest. i swam and snorkeled only for few minutes and went up to the boat almost all of the time. The rocks and fish are half from what i saw in Padang Bay. The view of surrounding mountains are similar to what i found in South Borneo. The food are the same with Seminyak. The hotels are the same with Legian. One thing i like is the horse transportation, called CIDOMO. In total, i will give score to Gili Islands = 7. But i enjoy the trip quite much. Won't mind to go there again.
While for Lombok, it's a small and quite island. Mataram itself is well-known as "City with Thousand Mosques". You can find a mosque every 1 kilometer. There's a lot of dogs too. Moslem is the dominant religion. In Nyepi Day, balinese people there do the same ritual. They blocked the entrance of "gang" and "kampung". And the did Ogoh-Ogoh ceremony as well.
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