Gili Air, Lombok, Indonesia 15th December 2022

After four nights on the quiet island of Gili Meno, we crossed to neighbouring Gili Air by slow motorboat about twenty minutes away.  By contrast Gili Air is much more developed and has a greater variety of restaurants, hotels, shops etc but still there are no cars and the only forms of transport are horse and cart, bicycles and electric motor scooters.  We stayed on the east side of the island where the corals are more plentiful and hence more fish which Paul found more diverse and interesting than Gili Meno.  However we did walk round to the west coast to catch the sunset whilst sipping cocktails and both the sunset and the cocktails were stunning.  Today we returned to Bali by one of the ferries that do a circuit from Bali, then round the three Gili Islands, across to Lombok and then back to Bali.  Were staying in Bali for a couple of nights before we fly to the Maldives on the 17th.  We've loved our time on the Gili islands and were lucky with the weather as it's supposed to be the rainy season but we've had blue skies almost continually.