Gili Trawangan

Gili T - pass me the Bounty

Gili Trawangan - pool at Marta's

We had our own bungalow built in traditional style, a porch outside with a day bed where our breakfast was subsequently served to us every morning. The pool was fantastic and the garden was very pretty. Originally we planned on staying for 3 nights but we ended up staying 5.
The snorkelling from the beach was truly incredible, it was like swimming in an aquarium. You only had to swim out for a few metres before you saw fish. Saw so many fish, I only wish I knew all their names – there were tiny vivid powder blues ones only a few centimetres long to big silver fish almost two feet long. A lot of work has taken place (and still is) to maintain the reef and regenerate the coral, from what we saw they are doing an excellent job.
Really need to mention the food here as it was fantastic. A couple of places had barbeques where you choose the fish you want to eat (giant prawns, snapper, tuna, mahi mahi, etc) and they then barbeque it for you. Without doubt, we ate the best Tuna we have ever tasted here.
We hired bikes for the day and cycled round the island, well we cycled some of it, in a lot of places it was too sandy to cycle so we ended up pushing.

Gili T- Boats at dawn

To give you an idea of the size of the island, you could walk around it in 2 hours. There is a lot of development taking place on the North of the island, hopefully this will not spoil it. Currently, most of the places to eat, sleep and drink are on the South part which contrary to Lonely Planet is the best beach.

Gili T - Boats at dusk

Ferry From Gili T