Indonesia - Step 7.4: Gili Air; Tattoos, turtles and trips 🕉️ 🐢

still day 2 - gili air

The other days on gili air went spontaneous, flowy and calm.

day 3

On day 3 we woke up early because I wanted to teach a yoga class to the other girls in one of the 2 shalas of the hostel we stayed. Unfortunately we ended up all doing our own practice silently, because the owner told us it is a silent-shala. In addition our mood was a little bit influenced by the fact that one of us suffered from allergic reactions due to either cat hair or dust in the bungalows. In the end 2 of our girl group left to another hostel.

After two of us went to Gili coffee roasters and had a nice breakfast and really good deeptalk. I really appreciate this group of girls which I got blessed with through the yoga teacher training. Even though we just know each other since a short period of time, our connection is very special and sacred. We can all have deep conversation, open ourselves without fear of judgement, communicate freely and be at ease together. The dynamics we had while traveling together was just amazing.

This day we all rented bikes so we could ride along on the island, which I really loved. It got a bit rainy again so some of us went to the spa, baba to also get the om tattoo and more coffee places. For sunset we just took our bicycle to the beachside and stopped at a place with a good view. The sunset was indescribable. Sitting there in the sand on a little island in indonesia, drinking beer and enjoying the serene colours of the sky and ocean, with these girls that we just share so much love for each other.

As this all is not enough we just sat down in a bar next to the dinner place because they had live-music. This guy made ur hearts melt with his amazing performance and even gave us the chance to sing a song which one of us took and surprised us with her enchanting performance.

Earlier this day one of our girls met with some american friends and went on her own trip with them 🍄. It was just some hundreds meter further from where the rest of us enjoyed the evening. So at some point we wanted to check on her and see if all is good. So the four of us jumped on our bikes to set off the adventure of finding her. We got some hints from locals and found her shortly after that. We took her home which means she was running while we were biking because she left her bike in a café.

day 4

Getting up early on travels is somethings that happens more than sleeping in. In the ytt we woke up every day at 5:30. Then on travels you have early flights, sunrise hikes and activities that require to get up early.

So this day we did one of those activities and got up at 5 to meet for a sunrise-snorkel-trip. In the end these things are usually worth it - which I can say about this trip as well. We swam with turtles and saw amazing reefs with a lot of colourful fishes. I felt like in the middle of one of these ocean-life-documentarys. Underneath the water surface when you cannot even listen to your own breath but silence the crackleing sounds of the ocean it feels like the time stops and nothing matters. I always found snorkelling really meditative.

As always we had a nice breakfast after this and sat together in another café later to again enjoy wholesome conversation and iced latte. Later we explored a bit with the bicycle with the intention to lay at the beach which didn’t went so well as it started to rain. So instead of laying at the beach in the rain we moved to sit in beanbags, drinking a coconut in the rain.

In our group its always me and the dutchie-girl that are a bit more fast or have the urge to do things more efficient, which is good because we could always already go somewhere before the others together. This evening we were already super hungry so we looked for a good sunset place. Unfortunately the one we wanted to go was full so we caught a quick moment with the sunset and a rainbow and then quickly head to a vegan place to order food. Which was delicious.

It was the last evening before we went to a boat trip for the next 3 days. Which meant again getting up early the next morning so we went to sleep on time.