Backpacker borju

disclaimer: this post is similar to what Ayu has posted before in her blog. Well, this is my side of story. Enjoy!

I have been willing to write this trip down since last month, but I guess I'm a pro procrastinator :p

I was in Bali last month, for a(n almost) mission impossible event held by Roro Jonggrang. I was there as one of his genies, trying to fix things up before he came at dawn :p. Enough with Roro Jonggrang, as he will not be reading my blog, and that's not the point of my entry.

Dewi asked me whether I would like to join her to go to Lombok for a day, before we head back to our homes. I said yes, without knowing who is going to be in the trip. I wanted to go back to Lombok. The last time I went there was in 2006, if I'm not mistaken. Along with my architecture friends. So, yeah, definitely, I would love to see Lombok again.

Dewi offered snorkeling and visiting sasak village as our activity there. I said no to sasak village trip, because the village was artificial *well, it's cool though... you should check it someday* and I declined snorkeling for the sake of my skin color :p nah, I always loved the sea... I'm afraid if I swam, I would never got out of that giant bathtub... and besides, I'm trying to keep this trip from my mum, and it won't work if I got sunburn!

Dewi is a supermom! she arranged things and go down to the details! Well, if she leave the things to me, we will never have the trip :p. And at that time, I found out that Ayu and Pilas were going as well. *OK, I need a pause here... and then, I pressed rewind...* Ayu and Pilas were going as well... Mehh, all the sudden I felt that this trip is going to be mad, in a good way.

By the time we head to the airport, we became fugitives... We planned this as a runaway trip, but the timing wasn't right. Seems that little tiny weeny Ngurah Rai airport was full of persons from our office. We have to watch our backs in case we ran into somebody *which we did, thanks to the 'coast clear' moment and the 'corner seats in a coffeeshop' moment :p*

Pilas talked me down about my 'kecipakkecipuk' wish when we were in the airplane. Whoa, that 20 mins of flight sure is the most hilarious flight I ever had. Pilas' good at giving 'the look'. Soon enough, at the same time when I was laughing, I agreed to do snorkeling.

We spent our night at a hotel, in Senggigi beach. The hotel was fine, but 4 person sleeping in 2 single beds? trust me, you better sleep on the floor or push the other three out from the bed! :p Hey, look at the bright part... travelling with these girls, we're far from the word 'rempong'. I mean, seriously, we didn't complain at all about the hotel's condition, the breakfast, the cidomo, the people staring at us... We even bring our own stuffs! But well, we were picky about transportation though. We chose pak Zakirin (081933155282) as our taxi driver and our tour guide. He's totally recommended! And he drives bluebird! another recommended thing in Lombok!

We went off to the three Gilis in a rented boat. We got Edi as our underwater tour guide. The first Gili was Gili Trawangan. The island was not as loud as Kuta, but it's not a place of sanctuary either... =) There are too many people though. And I don't like to be starred at, so let's just skip Gili Trawangan. Ow, there were a turtle conservation in the island. An old guy was the caretaker and it was an independent thingy. Drop by, and donate, for the sake of turtles! =)

Uhm, we only stop by to take some narcissistic shots on Gili Meno. But you could also go snorkeling there. And Edi told us that there's a bird park in the island. The tickets for the bird park is 40K IDR, so we skipped it =D

It was in Gili Air we had our lunch. Fresh fish and rubbertaste squid. It was great though. The texture of fresh captured fish was sooooo deliciosoooo!!!! *drooling* And off we went to go snorkeling again. The underwater view was great, and there I go, being a fish! I didn't want to get out of the sea! =D.

Too bad, the corals in the Gilis were broken by human footsteps. Just make sure you put on your life vest if you can't swim well. That was the moral of this snorkeling trip. And yeah, age does matter so much in swimming, trust me... :p Ow, thanks Pilas to talk me down and the swimsuit I borrowed! =p

I'll be back someday... =)

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TiQi Bo

Uhm, because of the sunburn, I became darker than I use to be. My mum found out about this escape, and I told her everything. I'm guilty as charged! =p

Mummy suggested me to change my hobby, but well. let's see about that...