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March 2, 2010

Gili Trawangan The Party Island

Category: adventure – Tags: – advear – 1:17 am

The Beauty Of Phuket

You have to try to walk down from Phuket to Khai Island while you are on vacation in Phuket. Clean sea with a variety of fish and exotic rocks will really fascinating you.

Phuket means hill in Malayan language, located about 862 kilometers south of Bangkok, lies in Andaman Sea with other 39 small islands. The beauty of Phuket is really starting when you navigate to Khai Island.

Ocean with blue green shades apparent when the ship approached Khai Island. From a distance you will gleam white sand gem. So it’s no wonder if Khai Island also known as “Pearl of the Andaman”.

Clean beaches and shallow will welcome you there and soon the crowd of fish will approach and surely will fascinate everyone who went into the water.

Not far from Khai Island, you can sail to the giant rock. This location is Maya Bay which had been the location of The Beach movie, starring Leonardo Di Caprio. The beauty that lies in front of your eye will amaze you all the time by the color of green blue sea and clear like crystal.

In Maya Bay you can enjoy unforgettable diving moment. In Maya Bay It was like being in a world of peace fenced with a giant coral lined the bay. We are in the middle, swimming, snorkeling, or just resting in the soft sand.

From Maya Bay you can sail to Phi Phi Don Island. The atmosphere of Phi Phi Don Island is like the crowds in Kuta Bali. Lined restaurant, souvenir shop, home stay, and hotel are available there.

Gili Trawangan The Party Island

Gili Trawangan is the largest island from other three Gili islands. Gili Trawangan is located in northwest of Lombok. Gili Trawangan is also the only island that has significant height above the sea level.

With a length of 3 km and 2 km wide, Gili Trawangan has 800 populations. Among from the three gili, Gili Trawangan is the only Island that has various tourist facilities. Gili Trawangan is also known as the smallest island in the world is that has Irish bar.

Gili Trawangan has “party” atmosphere more than Gili Meno and Gili Air, many parties all night in every night which is held using rotated system by some party organizer. Popular activities in Trawangan are scuba diving (with PADI certified), snorkeling (in the northeast coast), and surfing. There are also several places where tourists can learn to ride horse around the island.

On Gili Trawangan (as well as in two other Gili island), there are no motor vehicles. A common transportation is bicycles (rented by locals to tourists) and Cidomo (simple horse wagon). Majority of the resort (accommodation) located on east side of Gili Trawangan, with prices start from € 5 to € 78.

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