Saturday, January 10, 2009

Happy New Year!


To celebrate New Year's Eve and to take advantage of a few holidays back to back, we went to a tiny island called Gili Trawangan that's an hour by speed boat from Bali. It was the perfect place to go to get away from Jakarta: the only vehicles allowed on the island are bicycles and horse carts called cidomos. Just to describe how tiny the island is, we were able to bike around the whole thing in about an hour.
We spent five nights there and really had a chance to relax. We lounged on the beach, ate great food and did a couple of scuba dives. The water was the clearest we've seen in Indonesia and the white sand beaches were the perfect place to spend the whole day. We had an amazing trip, but this is Indonesia: there's always adventure in even the simplest of things. More to come later. Enjoy the pictures for now.

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