Why GILI AIR is my FAVOURITE Island in Indonesia 🇮🇩 Lombok Travel Guide
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- The Gili Islands in Indonesia are famous but most people only know Gili T the party island. But I loved the chill vibes of Gili Air and the best beaches on Gili Meno.
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This hotel was across the road from the beach and such a bargain
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If you've never heard of The Gilis they are coral islands off the coast of Lombok Indonesia. It's an easy ferry ride from Bali or a 5 minute local ferry costing on 18000 IDR from Lombok. As soon as I arrived in Gili Air I knew it would be amazing and immediately booked extra days. They are known for the best places are for diving and snorkeling but really you can also just laze around and take it easy. After a few days relaxing I went on a snorkeling tour that included stops in Gili Trawangan and Gili Meno.
While everyone wants to see the beaches in Bali, I must say they have nothing on the Gili Islands, I thought I was in the Caribbean or Maldives, they were that gorgeous.
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00:00 Arriving at Gili Islands
01:05 AliBaba Bungalows
02:23 Gili Air Beaches
04:22 Gili Islands Snorkeling
08:14 Gili T
08:25 Gili Meno
12:02 Best Restaurant in Gili Air
15:05 Traditional Lombok Food
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Great food in Gili Air! Gorgeous video swimming with turtles! Terima kasih.
In another video someone said the food in the Gilis wasn’t great but that was not my experience at all on Gili Air
Watching your drone footage makes me wanna spend $ I can't afford! Watching you eat makes me wanna eat things I can't find in Cincinnati. You're one great inspiration. Yes.
Well I’ve heard Cincinnati is a great food city 😊
I want to go there too, love it ❤
I want to go back, it’s so fantastic
Wow Gili meno beach 😍👌 Great video!
Without a doubt one of the most beautiful beaches I’ve been on
I have not been there except when the boat stopped to pick up some people on our way back to Lombok from Gili Trawangan. But I am going to make it a point to go to Gili Air next time.
As an American, I don't much like their food. I did at first, then it got old fast. Didn't like having rice 2 or 3 times a day. Nasi Campur got boring fast for me. But the Mangosteens, Dragonfruit and Rambutan were amazing. I really miss them. Thanks for posting the video. Brought back some good memories.
Oh you’re so welcome. And there are lots of western spots there too, but Alan is Indonesian and I write about traditional food so we mostly eat local food 😊
Thank you for really showing the true places. So many videos are just to look at the people who make them , without infos like you do. Great!
Thank you so much this is what I strive for, useful videos!
We will be there next week ! Was there last July just after reopening from Covid. Hoping the weather won’t be too rainy. 🤞🤞🤞Think u did a great job representing the island.
Oh thank you! I really loved it, I'm surprised more people don't go here instead of Gili T
vibes After Vibes ! 🙌 Thank you so much for this vlog !! 😎🙏🙌
You’re so kind, thank you 🙏
Have fun in Indonesia , I always follow your adventures , great video contents , keep us updated
Thank you! What would you like to see in Indonesia?
@@ayngelina visit bali. try local food and meet new people
I’m not so interested in Bali as it’s overcrowded with tourists. Is there a part of the island you like?
Enjoying the moment your in
Thank you 🙏
Amazing trip
I’d heard the island was nice and I could just go for a day trip but I think I could easily stay a month.
Thanks for your video 😊ᓚᘏᗢ
My pleasure 😊
Meeting with bang Malik is good mis🙏
While I loved Gili T and Gili Meno, but I agree that Gili Air is the best one IMO
Where did you stay in Gili Meno? I'd like to go back and explore moe.
@@ayngelina I just did the day trip to the Gili Islands - didn't stay there
Ahh if you have an opportunity to go back I loved Gili Air and it was so cheap
Ayngelina. I honestly wish to thank you for your Indonesia series. Prior to viewing it, I had no desire to see Indonesia. Now thanks to you, I will make it part of my next Asian trip.
I would still love to get your overall opinion on Asia, at the end of your journey!
Michael that makes me so happy to hear as I never wanted to visit Indonesia either but it has so much to offer. Wait until you see next week’s video as the views in Nusa Penida are like nothing I’ve ever seen.
@@ayngelina CAnt wait
I was just in Indonesia and I went to almost every island and gili air was by far my favorite!
What other islands did you visit?
Indonesia has 17k islands in total and 6k inhabited islands. Do you mean you visited all 17K islands 🥴 or you visited the biggest islands?
I enjoy watching your video
Thanks so much, I hope you subscribe and stick around for others.
I've subscribed
Thank you so much!
Got chills just to see pictures ! went there because I won 1 week in the ocean 5 hotel with free padi certification and 3 day in a private villa in the center of the island (yeah not kidding, luckiest night of my life) that i won at a bingo in Ubud 😅 and... I fell in love, the ocean 5's team almost got me to stay with them to become a diving instructor, this place is something special, the community is awesome, everybody know each other, local and tourist are open, lovely... I've been to many places in many countries, this one is THE one, if one day I feel depress, I definitely move there. I didn't try Travagan but I went to Meno as well (yeah I won a divin session with Mantas in Meno that same night too, like I said "luckiest" 😅) but definitely difficult to be better than Gili Air
I was there a couple months back and I will definitely return
Very, very beautiful Ayngelina - thanks so much for sharing and, keep enjoying 🤗
Thank you so much
Belitung islands, komodo islands, karimunjawa
Oh that is definitely on my wish list.
6:08 just wow. that view!
It’s so beautiful there
Thanks for coming ❤❤
I can’t wait to return!
Let's enjoy more places
what do you recommen?
Rinjani mountain
I've been there 6 month ago with my gf from Poland in Gili Air very beautiful place💞. And anyway i'm from Indonesia,East Kalimantan
That's so nice, I would love to visit Kalimantan
@@ayngelina Good news. If you go to Kalimantan you can see native animals that come from Kalimantan. such as OrangUtans, Bekantan(Gold monkey) Pesut (freshwater dolphins) and many other species. There are also tours that can spoil the eye
any special foods you recommend I try?
@@ayngelina special from My place East Kalimantan? Yes a lot of food,cake, bread
Sister you can go to Ternate Island history of spanyol and Portugal banyak disana dengan pemandangan Indah😊
Where is this?
Lombok is beatiful
I can’t wait to go back.
Many episodic cases of DENGUE in LOMBOK . My girlfriend caught dengue sickness in GILIS . We went in emergency to hospital , and after 3 days , and confirmation of Dengue ,
we came back to Europe .
We enjoyed totally 8 days in Lombok . 3 days in Sengigi , 5 days in Gili , the fifth day she had fever , and 3 days in hospital .and finish .
Our plan was 1 full month .
She caught dengue in sengigi , just before Gili .
Oh wow I’m so sorry to hear that, dengue is very serious.
@@ayngelina the good things une gili Islande IS quietness . The sound of silence.
Yes I’ve never been to Gili T but I prefer quieter islands
Next exploring to, skywalk Senayan park of Jakarta city, skywalk Centeral park Neo Soho, mount Rinjani Lombok, mount Bromo East Java,raja Ampat Papua, Toraja Sulawesi,lake Toba Samosir north Sumatra,bukit Lawang see orang utan north Sumatra and labuan bajo komodo dragon island in Flores INDONESIAN.thanks for coming here,I hope you're happy here👍🇮🇩🙏
I was just talking about September travels in Indonesia wondering where is best to go for good weather
How long does it takes to do the 3 island tour ?
It was a half day trip they are very close to each other
Hello~ May I know how to book the gilis tour like you? thank you
Or maybe how much was the trip to 3 islands?
So we stayed on Gili Air, it’s a ten minute boat ride from Lombok on a public boat. Once you get to the island there are lots of tour agencies and different tours you can take. Oddly enough the one close to the port was the best deal in terms of how many people were on the boat, which I think is important to ask. But the prices are pretty standard with a bit of room to negotiate but not much.
This is my first trip to bali, after 6 days in ubud, we are thinking of going to Gili air, its me and my daughter, and she is 11. do you reccomend this bungalow with children? or should I up the price a little? how do we get to that place when we arrive from boat? and how many days? we are not in a hurry :)
Everything on the island is max 20 minutes walk and the horse carriages can take you. This is like a motel type area with a pool but they do have bigger rooms so it depends on what your daughter wants to do. We spent a lot of time exploring the island and didn’t really hang out at the hotel a lot but if you think she needs a big pool there are other spots too.
@@ayngelina okay super. 20 min walk around, then it is a little island :) think we start with booking 3 days after ubud
When I was there long time ago...there is still nothing in Gili Air. People mostly stay at Gili T
Wow how long ago was that
@@ayngelina more than a couple of decades ago
It must have been beautiful.
@@ayngelina absolutely.. beyond words. Even Bali when I visit it in early 90ish is really different than what it is now
When people say Lombok is what Bali was 25 years ago do you think that’s true? Because when I was in Kuta I thought there’s no way this was all just farmland 25 years ago and is now a mess of tattoo shops, convenience stores and traffic jams.
Predator island... Watch out for the island boys ladies
I think you could say that on any tourist island 🏝️
@@ayngelina yea especially the fake dreadlock guys
Hi from Cuenca. All is well.
Joe! How’s the weather in Cuenca right now
@@ayngelina mostly cloudy and rain with some peekaboo sun.
Yeah it’s that time of year. How are you liking it?
@@ayngelina I love Cuenca. Pouring rain.
Do you love the rain 🌧️
I hear it’s eat go get food poisoning, how did you avoid any food related problems?
I only eat local food in places that are busy.
Spent last Dec/Jan in Indonesia including a week on Gili Air - ate in all kinds of places from slick resto in glitzy malls to street food to places with packed earth floors thatched roof and waiters who were barefoot - Never got sick once. The thing to be conscious of is the water. Avoid drinking tap water - always drink bottled water - in remote areas don’t get ice in your beverages.
Go to Karimunjawa
Oh where is that?
@@ayngelina . Java islands
Oh by what city?
@@ayngelina . Semarang
Oh awesome, that is absolutely possible.
gili air is wonderful for rest and relaxation but the beaches of gili are not blue and clear. they are murkey - i stayed for 2 months and so it’s not a matter of the way or wind or rain
it’s not hawaii for sure but its so low cost so it’s good for that type of trip on a rugged infrastructure place - budget vacation to just relax - the nicest people
All coastal living depends on the wind, air and currents but when I was there the colour was lovely.
3 or 4 dollars isn't alot😅
You're right it's not at all!
Have you taken out the trash?
I was there 2 days ago and everything was littered.
Oh really? Where did you see it?
hi ayengelina you like Indonesian food
I love it!
are you still in indonesia
I will be back in a few weeks!
Just back from all the Gillis and Lombok. Those islands are highly overrated.
What are your favourite islands ?
I totally agree. I am also a bit disappointed. The natural beauty of the island is there, but something just does not add up. :/.
My biggest dissapointment were the islands around bali. I thought it would be thailand vibes but i was wrong.
It’s a nice place Asia, but those roosters …… they can ruin vacation !!!!!
I’ve spent so much time in Latin America I never even hear the roosters anymore 🤣
Nothing wrong with the roosters, we can share a place with them.
@@libradarlington that’s mean you never lived in quiet paradise!!!!!! :)))))
@@updatename6637 there's no paradise on earth, only in heaven after you die 🙄