So following our brief stop in Ubud it was time to travel today (Wednesday) to the Gili Islands for stage 3 of our trip. We were up early, actually very early as the palatial surroundings of our villa actually didn't help Amanda and I sleeping, and following the normal lovely breakfast, we were picked up once again by the local carriage company and headed to Pedang Bai (Bay) an hours drive away where we were to pick up the fast boat ferry service to Gili.
Once there we had a wee wait for the boat but boarded on time at 11am aboard Blue Water Express III for the hour and a half trip to Gili Trawangen. The fast boat was great fun, very fast and powerful and with a sun deck so we could sit outside and enjoy the scenery. This was immense with the volcanic shores of Bali as the backdrop, and the mood was enhanced even more when we saw Dolphins briefly and some flying fish. The journey dropped us on the beach of Gili T and we then took the horse drawn cart for the 15 trip to the other side of the island, known as Sunset to our hotel Hotel Ombuk Sunset. The hotel was very nice with great welcome juice and we spent the afternoon at the pool where we had lunch.
We then headed to the beach for a beautiful sunset with free cocktails and following showers took a walk in near the total darkness to the main drag on the main beach/harbour side of the island. Here we walked the main drag, took dinner at Blue Marlin and then walked on the coastal route home back for some sleep!
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