Mount Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia (18 - 22 Sept 2014)

Flight details


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)