Gili Islands Sightseeing Tours Lombok Indonesia

Gili Island tour
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GILI ISLAND TOUR

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Depart for Gili Air with stop at Lendang Bajur, a typical countryside market, and then drive through lush mountainous interior of the island to Pusuk Pass the beautiful panoramic view of Northern coast. Pemenang a small village on the island where you board the outrigger and highlight the island of its fascinating snorkeling and swimming beach. Gili island on the west coast of Lombok consist of 3 small islands those are Gili Air, Gili Meno, and Gili Trawangan. Gili Air is densly populated by local people with around 1000 residents, while Gili Meno has around 700 residents. Gili Trawangan is the fartherst among the three and has the smallest number of residents. Yet Gili Trawangan is the most popular resort compared to others.
Duration 8 hours
Good time 08.00 - 16.00 hours.

2 Persons	3-5 Persons	Lunch
US$ 55.00	US$ 45.00	included

Gili islands has beautiful beaches clear water sea, so it is a perfect place to swim, snorkeling and scuba diving. Around the Gilis there are many diving sites which is categorized as fare sites, but with it's beautiful water has attracted most divers come and enjoy the water of the Gilis. One important information is that the water for bath in Gilis is still have sea tastes, while drinking water must be transported from Lombok mainland. Today the three Gilis (Gili Air, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan) have developed various facilities for travel from simple bungalows, boats, speed boats, and paddled boat or traditional jukung or outrigger boats. Enjoy the beuaty of the island with view to Mount Agung in Bali and Mt. Rinjani in Lombok. The Area of blue coral can be found and seen between gili meno and gili air. It can be said that the blue coral are only found in two the places in the world. In the Caribbean sea and in the gili air, and gili meno Lombok Indonesia. Selected hotel in Gilis for your option

Licence No. 256/pariwisata/2001
Jl. Trenggana no 81 A Denpasar 80238 Bali Indonesia
Phone +62-361-463448, 463447, 464054 Fax +62-361-463447

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LOMBOK ISLAND. Nothing was known about Lombok before 17th century. The Sasak the original population of Lombok seemed not to active in developing their country. The record about Lombok was started in 1677 AD when kingdom of Goa, Makassar, South Sulawesi tried to overrun Lombok. In that struggle of Sasak Chiefs, Bali strengthened his control in Lombok and in 1750 the whole island was under control of Karangasem kingdom, one of the small kingdom in East coast of Bali. By the end of 18th century one of Sasak chief invited Dutch to rule their land in return to the service that the Dutch must spell out Karangasem kingdom from Lombok. The Dutch was interested, and the first army was drop in Lombok, but was defeated by the prince with their army, The second army of Dutch drawn from Java was able to subdue the kingdom after bombarded Ampenan the center of kingdom in Lombok, and after the marched of prince and all the army and families to face the guns of Dutch army until the last drop of blood. This war was known as Puputan Lombok. Now Lombok was under the Dutch administration, and the Dutch was welcome like god as their liberator from Karangasem kingdom, and as promised by the Sasak Chiefs, the Dutch now control the island. The control of Dutch become a nightmares for the Sasaks since the heavy taxes was imposed without exception. The rice was all collected and brought to the the Dutch headquarters. This was continuing for years until what was everyone deadly did not want, it was happened -- the great famine of 1938 on. With the rule of Balinese in Lombok some cultural aspects of Bali were applied such as water irrigation system, social organization, and religion. The co-operation between the Sasak and Bali was going well inter-marriage was common. The Sasak who make-up 90% of the total population of Lombok are all Moslem, while Balinese who mostly live on West Lombok and in the city of Mataram, Ampenan, and Cakaranegara were remain Hindu. There are many interesting place belong to the Hindu kingdom in Mataran and surrounding area of the city.