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Day 18: LOMBOK: PURA LINGDAR - PURA SURADANI - BANYUMULEK - SADE - SENGGIGI

Monday, June 27, 2011

Today we get up early, but this time we do it with the sound of the waves. When we left the door of our room we found a spectacular landscape of Lombok, on the beach. For a moment we regret having planned for today tour Lombok by car, being able to stay to enjoy what we have right now in front of us.
We are going to have breakfast and we are surprised by the extensive letter they put us. They tell us that we can choose everything we want from the menu and it almost sounds like a joke… because it is much more than in any buffet.
We have breakfast at a table next to the sea and in the end we almost have to run because we have been that they come to pick us up at 8 in the morning, with the intention of not finishing too late and take advantage of the Alang Alang Boutique Beach Resort, our hotel from Lombok, which, as we have said, is one of these that must be taken advantage of.
A guy comes to find us who speaks a little English with a new car, with air conditioning. We tell you what we want to see from Lombok by car and the order in which we want to do it.


The first thing is to get on our way to Pura Lingsar, the most revered temple of Lombok.
The truth is that it disappoints us a little. Although it is "normal" after having seen many temples in Bali, which although we do not like to compare, they are more beautiful ...


Pure Lingsar. Lombok by car

We are not very long in the temple and we tell the boy to take us to Pura Suranadi, a temple that we have read that is located in a beautiful landscape.
As we move forward and delve into the island, we realize that the landscape is completely different from Bali and Java.
It is much more "poor." We had been told that Lombok is what Bali was like 20 years ago. We do not doubt it, but the truth is that we are not liking it so much.
We have already been told that Indonesians have a very bad habit, throwing garbage anywhere, but here in Lombok, it gets worse and the roads are "impossible".
There are fewer villages splashing the landscape and it becomes more monotonous to go by car.
Perhaps we also have the influence of the days we have been here, making long-distance car trips.
We arrive at Pura Suranadi and there comes a boy to guide us, we tell him that we do not need him and he leaves not very willingly.
We visited the temple for a while and as we said before, after seeing those in Bali, what can we say ...
Of course, we have to say that if we have to choose between the two we have seen, we are left with the latter.


Offering in Pura Suranadi

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Priest in Pura Suranadi

Landscapes surrounding Pura Suranadi.Lombok by car

From here we tell the Lombok driver We want to go to Banyumulek, this is where one of the most famous ceramics of Lombok.
Once we get there, we are amazed that they leave us at the door of a most touristy shop, so we say for the second time, that we do not want this type of visit and we will walk the town on foot.


BanyumulekLombok by car

Transportation in Banyumulek

Details in Banyumulek

This serves as a breath of fresh air this morning and we take some snapshots of the daily life of the island.


BanyumulekLombok by car

Here we are half an hour, in which we “mix” a little with the daily life of the people of the island.
When we get back in the car, he tells us that he will take us to another town. We believe that he has understood that we do not want to go anywhere else in stores and we do not discuss him ... but look where we end up in a town where he returns to stop at a loom store, we say again that please do not want to visit more stores and we chose to tell him to take us directly to Kuta.
But it is seen that it is not for the work and it stops us again in a typical Sasak town, the truth is that we do not dislike it much, but there is an impediment, we have next to our 3 tourist buses and force guides.
We tell him again that we don't want to stop here and that we want him to take us directly to Kuta.
Although before we take a couple of photos from outside, to have even the memory of the different structures of the houses ...


SasakLombok by car

SasakLombok by car

Strange nods and finally we see our way to where we want. But it couldn't be all so pretty ...
Without realizing it, we get into Kuta Yes, yes, it is where we want to go, but it has put us on the private beach of the Novotel hotel.
Since we are there and what we least want is to discuss, we planted on some sunbeds, hoping to change our mood ...


Novotel hotel beach in Lombok

Here we have decided that tomorrow we will take it for relaxation, we will cancel the excursion we have to see the waterfalls and take advantage of the hotel.
We have no more desire to discuss ... hahaha And the truth is that the things we want to see, have been a bit "filler additives."
We leave the beach and tell the driver exactly the restaurant where we want to go.
We go to the Ketapang Cafe recommended in the guide as the place where the best pizzas are eaten Lombok. And we attest to that ... we are delighted!


Pizza in Ketapang Café

The atmosphere is very good and there we take a rest for a while.
We decided that it is time to get a little harder and mark directly what we want to do in the afternoon, so we tell the driver the beaches we want to see.
Still, he says that in those there are many vendors and stops us in another! Although this time we are lucky and we can say that it is a spectacular beach.
There we are a good time walking and taking photos.


Beach in Lombok
Lombok by car

Beach.Lombok by car

When we return we tell him to go to another beach. He nods, but in the end we see that he is already taking us directly back to Alang Alang Boutique Beach Resort.
We have nothing to take the subject to laugh and let it go, we do not want to lose our nerves! Hahaha
We take advantage of the rest of the afternoon to enjoy the garden, the views of the hotel and the pool ...


Hotel pool in Lombok

Hotel pool

We cannot say that we are tired, but we are also welcome to rest.
We also take the opportunity to enjoy the porch of our room, with spectacular views.


Views from the porch of our room in Lombok

And today we have been fortunate to enjoy one of the best sunsets we have ever experienced, enjoying the view of one of the Balinese volcanoes just in front.
A picture is worth a thousand words…


Sunset in Lombok

Wonderful sunset in front of our room

After such experience in our trip to IndonesiaWe don't really want to move from the hotel to Lombok, Alang Alang Boutique Beach Resort, and we decided to have dinner at the hotel restaurant and after reading for a while ... we go to sleep ... again accompanied by the sound of the waves. Tomorrow a quiet day awaits us !!!

Day 19
LOMBOK: SENGGIGI

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