[Lombok] - Gili Pasir

 Gili Pasir.

 It's our last stop before heading to airport to catch our flight.

 It's a plot of sand island similar to Gili Kapal.

 But this one is much smaller than the other Gili Pasir.

 But, I prefer this Gili as it's cute with Indonesian flag flying at the middle of it.

It's super windy here...

  You can see busy waves playing,chasing and hitting other waves~~~!

 Wow! my hubby also being blown by the wind towards my direction.

 Sea urchin?!

 First time seeing Sand Dollar. It's like five-petaled flower crafted on the shell.

 Sand dollars are also symbols of peace. Legend has it that there are five doves

 inside the shells that are free to bring goodwill to the world when the sand dollar is broken.

A lot of  WIERD things found!

New species of Black Pufferfish?

  Mermaid?!!!

 Corals and shells...

Recommended Tour agency - Green Chili.

Hope to come back again!

[Lombok] - Tanjung Ringgit and Cannon Cave

Tanjung Ringgit.


You can get to this hill by motorbike from Pink Beach.

A short bumpy ride, but it's totally worth to reach this unique and beautiful spot.

 The charm of natural scenery is so eyes' feasting from this height.




Be captivated by the vast high sea overlooking the sea of Australia.




No!!! You're not supposed to jump from here!

 No barrier so do take care of your own safety!

Beware of strong wind too...

 Do you know that this site was used by the Japanese as their army quarter during WWII?

 

 

Tanjung Ringgit is strategically located, so it's an advantage to monitor
any strike coming from allies, especially Australia.

Therefore, you can find some remains of buildings, underwater cave at Gili Mangkok and equipment of Japan such as heavy artillery cannon to defend from enemy attacks...

Gua Meriam (Cannon Cave).

This heavy cannon is one of the deadly weapons to attack enemies that come near 

to the coast as it's facing north to south directly facing the beach.

The storage of ammunition located on the rear right side of the cannon that  

make the process of reloading much easier and faster. 

 Let's spread the love and stop the war!

[Lombok] - Gili Petelu & Gili Mangkok

It's our last day in Lombok, but we still planned to visit few attractions before going back to Singapore.

Gili Petelu.

Nice place for snorkeling to see colorful fish like in giant aquarium. But, don't catch them even if you find nemo or dory, because saltwater fish quite difficult to breed as they require very tiny live hood that must be cultured. The boatman found starfish and showed to us and released it back.

Btw, the water temperature was lower than other Gili islands. According to the boatman it's because of the salinity was higher than other places.

Boatman and our guide dived in and harvested quite amount of shells 

and seaweed.

Gili Mangkok.

 

 Big tunnel / cave.

Underwater cave?! Yes, you heard it correctly, the cave was connected to Tanjung Ringgit where the cannon located. 

 It said that Japanese built this cave to store the missiles, so inside

the tunnel might still have some remaining missiles inside... wow!

 

 We didn't see a lot of fish here, but housing to different types of corals. 

 You can find weird shapes coral that looks like human's brain. 

Some corals have fluorescent pigments and their colour 

depends on the light they're exposed to. 

These cabbage or rose (Foliose coral) and staghorn corals dominated there.

Swam back to the boat as we still have 3 places to go~!

[Lombok] - Tanjung Luar

 

 Last day in Lombok...

 Need to check-out after having our breakfast.

 

4D/3N nice view for breakfast and dinner...

 

accompanied by 2 dogs, but I had to be very cautious as

there were many kittens around too... As you know I scared of cats!

 

Photo snapping time!

   

 Hubby just impatient waiting for me at swimming pool.

(we didn't touch the swimming pool as back to hotel late,

and super tired after whole day snorkeling).

Ask hubby to take some photos since he got nothing to do ;P

  Enjoy the morning sea breeze...

 Ok, let's go~!

 

About 45 minutes drive from hotel... we reached Mataram,

provincial capital of West Lombok. 

 It's about 6:30 am, and traffic jam along the market...

 Lines of Cidomos parking and waiting for customers

 in front of the market.

 

Stopped by to packet the same authentic Ayam Taliwang Nada
that we had yesterday for our lunch.

Fish mongers selling fresh caught fish and seafood near the 

entrance of Tanjung Luar Port. According to our guide,
this fish market is known for selling Sharks!

 

2 hours comfortable ride with private MPV car.

Yes, we spent lots of time traveling for 4 days using this car. 

 Tanjung Luar Harbour to go to southeastern of the peninsula.

This harbour is more like old fishing village with

most locals are fishermen  as you can see rows of boats along the beach.

Too bad it's quite dirty with lots of debris everywhere.

 

Here comes our boat...

Let's go to Gili Petelu

 with our experience and nice boatman!