In the Gili Islands, you can just go strolling, ride bicycles, sit on a horse drawn carriage called cimodos, go swimming or like us, go snorkeling. At Turtle Point, we saw many fishes and corals and were lucky to spot a lone turtle. Once, long before this, I had seen in Facebook pictures of Buddha statues under the sea, thinking that they were from lost civilisations. After viewing the circle of 48 life-size figures, standing together and curled up on the sea bed, I figured the Buddha statues, like the statues at Gili Meno were modern creations. The latter were created by a well-known underwater sculptor, Jason deCaires Taylor whose works were found elsewhere, in the Caribbean and the Canary Islands for example. Our guide had taken us to a quaint beach after that, promising to take us to view the Japanese ship wreck after we had our tea. Tea wasn't very nice; felt rather sandy on the tongue and since the guide didn't come for us just yet, we wandered off to explore the place. We met a pair of honeymooners from Chile in a quaint stall and decided to have what they had, fried rice and satay; and for me, guava juice. When we met up with the guide later, he said it was already late and we had to go back to Gili Terawangan and back to Lombok. No more snorkeling for us even though we had been promised three spots to explore and had been charged higher than usual. Sob!
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