[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~!