Gili Air, Nusa Penida & Nusa Lemborgan

Gili Air was amazing!! It's an small island amd there are no cars or scooters. They have the horse and bikes and of course walking to go around the island. When i arrived in the hostel my friend Miriam, who i meet in Bangkok, was already in the hostal and we celebrated with cocktails that we saw each other again!! Everyday happy hour 4 till 9 by the hostal, two cocktails for 70.000 😀. The hostal was very nice and has a really good atmosfeer. We had some cocktails and went to an other bar with life music with other people of the hostal. When the music finished we went to the crazy monkey to dance. The music was not great for dancing, mostly the people out of there face on the drugs where enjoying the music!! On the way back to the hostal we went skinny dipping, the seaweed was so high that we could feel it all the time!! The next day i went snorkeling in front of the hostal, not many fish but clear water and followed some seasnakes for a while. I told the dive school that i liked to go diving on the divespot shark point. I did not had seen the White tipreefshark yet so that i wanten to see!! On the friday they would go to sharkpoint and i extended my stay at the hostal. By the hostal where some menu's of restaurants where we ordered food by WhatsApp and they delivered for free the food by the hostal!!! Miriam and i went to Yoga classes first by H20 Yoga school and later on there was a girl at the hostal giving a class every morning and brekkie. I loved it, looking back i should had stayed longer on gili air when i had such an amazing time. We where always eating together with others of the hostal, going out together and we went for a snorkeling trip all together. The diving was also amazing, the white tip reefshark can also lay on the sand but the blacktip has to swim to be able to breathe. I could really good observe the sharks while they where laying on the sand, swimming around them. The second dive i saw more than twenty turtles, they where everywhere!!! 

The boat to Nusa Penida was only two hours, i had booked an hostel with swimmingpool for three nights and it was close by the harbour where i arrived from gili air. Walking to the hostel i saw the street dogs again, in Gili air there where no street does only cats!! I checked in by the hostal and went for a walk looking for a dive school. The two dive schools that i found where already fully booked and the third did not had divers booked and was not going the next day. I had a meal while i  watched the sunset by a restaurant on the way back and the boy from the restaurant booked a snorkeling trip for me by a friend of him for the next day. He would pick me up the next day and bring to the snorkeling trip. I came to Nusa Penida to see manta ray's and that is what i did!! Snorkeling with the manta's was amazing. They are so beautyfull!! Such a shame of all the plastic in the water there!!! After the snorkeling trip i went to see more of the island on the back of the scooter of a friend boy of the restaurant. He makes his profit on the snorkeling and sightseeing trip and i had a good time!! We first went to kelingking beach where the driver waited on the top of the cliff. It was a real walk and clim to come to the beach and i was happy that i had my walking shoes on. Down by the beach i had a swim and the view was amazing. Than it was time for the clim back up, it was a real work out. I should had taking water with me and the sweat was poring out me!! Back on the top i directly got a big bottle of water what tasted so so good!!! After we went to angel billabong and broken beach. It was beautyfull but the more than twenty manta rays tgat we saw swimming on the surface was for me even better!! The last stop of the trip was by crystal bay. It was a nice beach to see and watch the sunset. Than it was time to go back to the hostal. There where no people to socialise with by the hostal, what was a big diferrence after the time i had in gili air. I send a message to the guy from the restaurant if he know a a diveschool that was diving manta point the next day as the other diveschool that i contacted where fully booked. And because of the no people to socialise with by the hostal i did not feel like staying longer in Nusa Penida, than the booked nights. He found a diveschool and the next day i went diving on manta point first and second dive was by crystal bay. It was amazing, the manta's where so big and some where swimming straight at me!! In the evening i had dinner with someone i meet on the diveschool on the beach close by the diveschool. That was a very nice last evening before going to Nusa Lemborgan. 

The next day i was taking the 15 minutes ferry to Nusa Lemborgan, but the timetable for the boat changed. So the 15 minutes ferry drive became still a 5 hour traveling day waithing on taxi and waithing at ferry. I had a bad taxi experience getting to the ferry, totally getting ripper off so on Nusa Lemborgan i rented a scooter myself. With the big backpack on my back on the scooter en the little one between my foot i was driving to the hostal. I had booked a hostal for 2 nights with pool again. Also here where no other solo travellers, what put me down a bit. But there was a yoga school close by so i did that same evening a yin yoga class! After that i treated myself on a nice glass of wine and a pokebowl with local fish. The food and wine was amazing!!! By the hostal was that evening live music, what was really nice!! As soon as the music finished i went to bed. The next day i did not feel like doing anything, a down day, i got myself to the yoga class from ten o'clock to make me feel better. Yoga always does good to me. After the yoga i had a drive with the scooter around the island and had lunch by mushroom beach. On the way back to the hostal i booked myself the boat back to bali for the next day. I had a nice swimm by the hostal and that evening i had the same pokebowl again and treated myself on the buy one get one free cocktail by the hostal. The next morning i packed my bag before the yoga class and after i have been swimming and reading a book till it was time to go to the ferry. I took the ferry to Sanur and from there a taxi motoriek to Canggu where i booked for 7 nights. I like to stay longer on one place! Had a bit enough of all the travel days.