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GILI AIR ISLAND LOMBOK WEST COAST

Find various type of hotels on Gili Air. Gili Air has the size almost the same as Gili Meno island and this islet is the closest to the west shore of Lombok. By motorized boat it takes only 15 minutes from small port of Bangsal located further north of Senggigi Beach Resort. The island is the most populous land off the coast which population reached alredy more then 1000 people this year. The local people are the same as the people on the Gili island who was decended by mixed seafaring people of Bugis, Sasak and an indication also Balinese. In the past they mainly lived as fishermen, and with the changes happened to the island which was a destination of travel, the profession of the people also changed into some types of services such as restaurant, hotel, sea recreation, small vendors, tour guide, suppliers, boating and many others.

Gili Air is a beautiful island, despite the situation that the island is the most crowded one, the whole direction of Gili Air is encircled by sand beach. The concentration of hotels on Gili Air is located at the south east where one can find some good bungalows or hotels. While on the west part of the island is a bit dry and barren, so it is not interesting unless it is chagned into new landscape.

Underwater Indonesia mentioned that 2 sites on the north of Gili Air were the best for scuba diving on Gilis that are Takat Malang and Takat Sirah sites. The type of fish found were whitetip sharks, huge trevally, schools of fusiliers, stingrays, anthias, hardes, damsels, and titan trigger fish. Surface current was 2 knots, at the depth of 20 meters found irregular sandy bottomed oval surrounded by coarl encrusted ridges, which was an amphitheater of sea life. ( Underwater Indonesia, 1992 : 146-147 )

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Gili Air Hotel
Gili Air island is the closest Gili to Lombok mainland, and the most populous islet with around 1000 inhabitants, as one of Lombok hotel for Lombok diving tour has been very popular among

Sunrise Bungalow
Gili Air, the nearest of the three tiny islands from Lombok mainland. Hotel Sunrise Bungalow is a perfect base for Lombok diving tour. Price US$ 40.00/rm/nt

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SHORT NOTE ON GILI AIR ISLAND

Gili Air Island
The word Gili is used both on the east coast of Bali and Lombok Island to refer a small island. On the east coast of Bali is known a small island with the name of Gili Tepekong. This Gili is close to the ferry port of Padangbai, and is considered one site for good scuba diving place. It is not clearly known if the word is taken from Bali or originally Lombok. In the past Lombok was controled by one of Balinese kingdom of Karangasem which controlled up to the island of Sumbawa. There are so many small island around the island of Lombok and other then the 3 Gilis known on the west coast of Lombok there are Gili Nanggu, Gili Panjang, Gili Gede, and others. All those Gilis are small island and based with lime stone basin with good coral surrounding. How to reach Gili Air is a unique travel activity for everyone who plan their holiday on the island, a place where hotels on Gili Air are available. There are many accesses from out side the island of Lombok, yet the most easiest way is from Bali both by flight or by ferry boat. By air from Bali using small aircraft of CN 25 with the capacity of 25 passengers or Fokker 28 with the capacity of 50 passengers. Flying time from Ngurah Rai International airport to Mataram airport is only 25 minutes. From Mataram airport one has to ride a car to a small port called Bangsal, just one km north of Senggigi beach area. From Bangsal port one has to take a motorized boat with only 15 minutes to reach Gili Air. While if accessed by sea, there are many choices to reach the island espcially pre-crossing the strait of Lombok. If one staying in Nusa Dua, Sanur of Kuta, it must be transported first to the ferry port of Padangbai Bali which takes around two hours. Or one can take to stay at closest hotel to Padangbai port before crossing Lombok strait. There are plenty of hotels can be chosen in Candidasa Beach which distance is around 2 kms away from the port. Or just take 2 choices of hotel located just on the bay of Padangbai Port such as Mustika Sari Hotel or Puri Rai Hotel. From Padangbai port it needs 4 to 5 hours to cross the strait to arrive at Lembar Harbour, the biggest harbour of Lombok island located on the south west of the island. From Lembar one need to take land transport to Bangsal port which takes around 1 hour. Then the same boat as above. To reach the hotels on Gili Air one can just walk from the pier of the boat.

How to reach Gili Air
The small island of Gili Air on the west cost of Lombok is located nearest ot the beach of west Lombok. There are 3 small islands on a stright line. Gili Air and Gili Meno are two small islands which sizes are only half of the other Gili, yet has the biggest number of population. Gili Air, although it's size almost half of Gili Trawangan it has 1.000 population. The difficulty on the island is water supply. The people bring fresh water from Lombok mainland for cooking and bathing, it is also the hotels on Gili Air and bungalows have to transport water from the mainland for cooking and bathing. Gili Air has best dive sites and also has more sharks on a narrow bottom channels which each as the resident of reef white tip sharks.