[Lombok] - Tangsi Pink Beach

Tangsi Beach or better known as the Pink Beach.

It's located in the village Sekaroh, Jerowaru, East Lombok.

 

This beach is one of seven beaches in the world that has a pink sand beach,

which is one of two beaches in Indonesia that has pink sand.

Because of its uniqueness, it attracted beach lovers to visit this beach in Lombok.

Tranquil calm beach to spend half a day after spending hours of ride from Senggigi.

Mild waves inviting travelers to play, swim, snorkeling or just enjoy sunbath by the beach.

The color pink on the sand grains formed from white color sand 

mixed with crushed red coral.

The sand  more obvious under the sunlight and when it's exposed to sea water. 

 Red Coral and Pink sand (supposedly all pink

but it turned to black. I wonder how I wonder why...).

Do climb up the hill to get the perfect breathtaking scenery of Pink Beach. 

 What an exotic tropical beach with extensive grasslands on the other side.

Heaven on Earth.

The end of the cliff...

 

 Hello~ there!!!

 Wish you're here!

Hole on the cliff.

Tangsi Beach II.

 

But this beach don't have the pink sand...

 

Ayam Taliwang for lunch...

Let's go to Tanjung Ringgit now!

Yes, you need to rent motorbike as the the road is narrow, rocky 

and it's rough terrain for car to go up there.

[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!