Colors of Gili

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Gili Trawangan    |   Lombok   |   Indonesia

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Great days in the small paradise islands. 

With my friend visiting from Finland, we escaped the Ubud life to the Gili islands. All those tropical ocean blues were nice change to the deep greens of Ubud. Can't wait to visit the islands again!

Here are also some phone photos of the trip. So much sand, sunlotion and swimming!

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Great days

Wow it's already December! Nowdays my every post starts by apologizing how rarely I manage to actually sit down, put photos to my computer and post them here. Sorry about that.

This last month I had my brother and two friends from Finland visiting Bali and Ubud. Since the three weeks were so full of adventures and small highlights I can't share it all, but here are some moments on the way. 

The monkey forest. You could spend hours just looking these little fellows playing around!

If you stand still they might even include you to their play.

And make a fool of you.

We also climbed the mount Batur, the other still active volcano in Bali. The sunrise on top was so beautiful!

Antti, Tinja, Yasha, me, our guide Putu and Leo (taking the photo) walked around the crater.

Me and Leo  just down from the very top.

Down after the long hike.

Tinja's and Antti's last dinner in Ubud before they headed down South to the beach.

Ayu's birthday at Locavore

Leos dream was to drive around the whole island with motorbikes, but since that was a bit too long way, we just went to Lovina and back. The 8 hours ride was tiring but totally worth it. The scenery up in the mountais was so beautiful and getting lost in small villages were one of the higlights of our journey.

Lake up in the mountains.

Crazy roads, and the one in the photo was still easy.

At Lovina we went to snorkeling with small boats.

With Leo we also visited some nice restaurants and bars with cool interiors.

From Ubud we also took a car and went to Finn's beach club in Uluwatu 

Hello blue waters!

We also took our new friend Kim with us to enjoy the ocean.

On Leo's second last day we visited Tirta Empul, a temple with holy water.

Since I like the kois a lot, I could have spend a whole day just watching them going around.

Room for dessert? Yes! Great place for Yasha's, Mora's and Leo's last night in Bali.

And sometimes good things comes to an end, and these lovely people had to return to Australia and Finland. Thank you for great time and good good memories!

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If you wish to see whats happening here in Bali on a bit faster tempo, have a look of my instagram.
instagram.com/esakapila

And about the renovation? I'll post about that soon! During the stay of Leo and my friends, I was still working every day in order to get the new rooms done. We had to extend the renovation to two other rooms aswell because of some leaking pipes - so now we are working on 4 rooms.

But more text and photos later on! Have a nice day!

Kuta beach

Last thursday we went to Kuta to celebrate my birthday. We took the shuttle bus from Ubud and arrived there around eight o'clock in the evening. After checking in to our hotel and having dinner we headed to check the clubs like Sky Garden, Ekon, Engine Room and Bounty. With Ayu, Jassu and Kata we danced a lot and over all it was a perfect birthday! On friday morning we went to the beach. We spent the day swimming, sunbathing, shopping and eating. In the evening there were the Sweet seventeen party in our hotel I wrote about before. On saturday we went to the beach again and then took the shuttle bus back to Ubud. Kuta was nice change for Ubud and it felt really good to visit some place new.

The waves brings coral pieces and shells to the shore. I have never actually seen coral like this before and even if it has lost all the colours and everthing I still find them interesting :) Even took few good looking ones and brought them back to Ubud.

I really enjoy just looking the different people passing by.

And of course in Kuta there are many surfer beginners. Everywhere you look you see someone carrying his or her surfing board around and when you enter the beach there are many locals offering surfing classes. It was nice to watch how they first teach on ground and then slowly going to water to try the waves.

With Ayu we have tried to get some good looking tan like these dudes.

For her it is going pretty well but me, after 3 weeks im still white like a snowman. After hours and hours of lying there I only managed to burn my feet. I'm sure I miss the tan gene :)