Senggigi
February 18, 2009
With Plan A officially out, we were caught off guard a little and not quite as prepared as we needed to be to figure out other options. We knew that Lombok was in the plans so we just figured to get over there and see what new inspiration it would give us; one thing we knew is that we had to get away from Kuta! So, we grabbed our gear and hopped on a local ferry to island of Lombok - the fast boat was 650 000 rupiah/person, slow boat was 40 000 rupiah/person ($1 CDN = 9400 rupiah). The total distance between Bali and Lombok is 25 km and the ferry ride took us close to 5 hours. The never-ending question of “are we there yet” became a hundred times more infuriating in the equatorial heat and Magnus had no idea how close he came to being thrown overboard! But once we approached Lombok you could just get a sense that things were different there; less touristy and way more laid back - I fell in love with it from the very first second! So we stopped off for three days in Senggigi, found a nice hotel with a pool for the kids and just relaxed and took our time to figure out what exactly we were going to do next. Here, Magnus strapped on his snorkeling gear and learned how to use the equipment in the pool, while Svea was content to just sit on the steps of the pool and watch her big brother. The town of Senggigi was nothing much of note but it served our needs perfectly and got us all back on track and ready to go on with Plan B.
