Silk Air $423.80
Flight was about 2hr 45min. credits Google maps
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18 Sep
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Take off!
Meal onboard
Sunset
Touched down
Bandar Udara Internasional Lombok (Lombok International Airport)
Mini van ride
Buy buy buy!
Dinner
Room at Pondok Senaru cottage
Good night
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19 Sep
Good morning Lombok!
Sunrise over Mount Rinjani
Pondok Senaru cottage
Tea
Pancake and coffee for breakfast. Similar to Bali, there's significant amount of residual coffee powder that's still in the coffee. Pancake is served with condensed milk
Loading up the lorry
Each basket weigh up to 40kg - the load the porters have to carry
Let's go
Besides carrying the load the porters also cook
Lunch was good, but I had a strained muscle on my right thigh after lunch time.
It gets foggy as we go higher up
Finally reached the tents
Dinner in the tent to hide from the cold
Night sky
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20 Sep
With the strained muscle, I decided not to go for the summit climb. The rest set off at about 2am.
Sunrise
Breakfast: Toast, pancake & pineapple
Lake
We decided to cut the trekking trip short by one day due to fatigue, muscle cramps and blisters. It was a right decision.
As the saying goes, 上山容易，下山难。
Checked-in to Holiday Resort, Lombok. Finally, a hot shower and a nice bed.
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21 Sep
Dive #1
Location: Deep Turbo
Max depth: 28m
Bottom time: 43min (1015H - 1058H)
Dive #2
Location: Meno Slope
Max depth: 20m
Bottom time: 41min (1332H - 1413H)
Breakfast
Blue Marlin Dive, where we dive at Gili Trawangan
Octopus
Turtle
Garden eel
Moray eel
Visibility was good
Lunch
Pizza that we can't finish, we ordered just to make up the total sum to be above 300,000RP so that we can bill by card.
Eagle ray
Cuttlefish
Turtle
Pufferfish
*other sightings include: Porcupine fish, peacock mantis shrimp, nudibranch, Spiny lobster, blue spotted stingray, lionfish
baby turtles
Dinner at Yessy Cafe. Expensive and not fantastic
Random walkabout
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22 Sep
Kayaking
Snorkeling
Strong waves
On the way back to Airport
Waiting for the plane at Coffee Bean
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More pictures: Mount Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia (18 - 22 Sept 2014)
