Gili Meno 4

So our last day on Gili Meno was truly delightful. After the emotional night of before with the whole angie episode (did that make it in the previous blog? -- someone tell me because if it doesnt, i can add it as "the angie episode").

At any rate, the last day on Gili Meno ... Angie got a really nice black pearl necklace and matching earrings set in silver for something stupid like $15 US and then we (Angie, Bar and I) went to the far side of the Island to a resort called Sunset Gecko, which is our favorite resort on this small island. If anyone else ever comes here, this is the place to stay. There is excellent snorkeling right off the beach and the resort has FRESH water showers even if it is a shared bathroom situation. To be green, and prudent, they re-use the shower water to water the garden, so you have to use their biodegradable soap. It is a great sunset spot and the food is tasty and not too expensive.

In fact it is amazing how far an american dollar goes in indonesia. We had just a few for our last day on Gili Meno and for the travel back to the airport the next day. We arranged our transportation before we left the main island, Lombok, so that was ok. We had a great meal .... and this may be in the previous post, so I will return to the last day.

We walked back through the interior of the island (taking many pictures of the island's village, mosque, etc.) to get back to our resort in time for packing and then dinner. I had a truly glorious massage from the lady at the beach cafe next door to the resort. Everyone here seems to be a massage thearapist. Anyway, it was a $10 one hour massage, although it could have been about $6 (which was the original offer, but we didn't have the rupiah in the budget for it, and she would take my $10 bill.) She did quite a number on my neck and upper back, which definitely helped the long hard day of travel the next day.

We then had a delighful dinner, packed and the next day we were off on the trek to the airport on Denpassar.

To sum up Gili Meno, we arrived on wednesday, Bob and Liz visited on Thursday, we went to visit them on Gili Trabahar on friday, changed Angie's return so that we could stay here on Meno all day on sunday. Lazed about on Saturday at Sunset Gecko, watching the sunset there. Had a delightful, truly inexpensive meal at the "cheap" restaurant on the beach on our way back, and then the last glorious day on Gili Meno as described above. I hope I covered all those items in the blog, again let me know if I didnt and I will fill in some more detail later. I have been stranded on the low-tech island of Hapa'ai in Tonga for the past weekish, so there is a lot of blog material to get in, and i am trying to get it before i get to NZ and do some more traveling....

anyway until next time, newo out.