I'll Bali you good!

To Bali we go to meet Pad & Ian for our last leg of Indonesia. Bali is, well Bali! Commercial, Costa del Oz but all part of the Indonesian experience. We organised to meet up with a Kiwi Experience friend in Marc from The Netherlands, and also a friend of his Martijn in Bali too. Alles goed!

After a couple of days catching up and partying, we all headed to the Gili Islands. A full days ferry ride and travel by road brought us to Gili Trawangan. The biggest of three islands, Gili T is a lovely spot of tropical heaven for diving, snorkeling, and all round relaxing. Eleven nights here involved lots of chilling out, watching movies on the beach front cinema, playing Nintendo Wii in the Irish bar and snorkeling away to our heart's content. Ironically the last part of our journey was the only one to exclude meeting any other Irish people. Two weeks of blissful chilling with Pad, Ian, Joe, the two Dutchies & Claudio, a German DJ from Frankfurt, was top! Party and relax/recover in equal amounts. Island life suited this band of humbled travelers indeed.

I shall keep this post short while the pendulum of anticipation of my return home swings between excitement and sorrow. Cheers to Claudio, Marc & Martijn for making an incredible finish to Indonesia. There is little I can say about a farewell to two of the best lads and friends I know. One is an oldie, the other a newbie but Pad & Ian have made a travel across SE Asia & Oz infinitely more enjoyable. They will be missed but good luck with travels and safe home boys. Selamat Jalan!

Next? Sri Lanka of course... My birthday has become an international event. Last year we celebrated on a chilly night in Melbourne, which seems a decade not a year ago, and this year with just Joe & I on the west coast of Sri Lanka. Sun, sea, sand & surf will be the candles on my cake... Home is not too far away now, not too far at all.

Jonny & Ian in Bali

Marc & Joe on the boat to Gili T

One of the locals cooks a traditional Indo dish of nasi goreng.. Pedas sekali!

Jonny gets soaked as usual at the Irish Bar

Fluich!

The cookie throwing baby!

The Dutchies get a tan... I get red

Arak-Arak night! 4 bottles of the local whiskey left us, well drunk...

On the boat for some snorkeling

Some lovely views of the islands

Ian under the boat... Cheeky!

Martijn, Joe & Nikki

Pad is Captain Caveman

Blowing bubbles

Pad pretends to be a shark... It did scare the crap out of me

Claudio mucking about

Wet willy! All the the lads on our "last" night

Two Swedish guys we met

Marc breaks a table...

Dansen bij Jansen on the bar

Land of the Youth

An Irish club sandwich... Irish brown bread and Swedish filler... YUM!

The price list... 45,000 rupee is 3 euro. Go figure!

Selemat Jalan... On the road again

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