Sengigi Beach, Lombok

We arrived in Sengigi around 9 am after about a 30 min ferry from the Gili islands and an hour bus ride from the harbor. Jenn wasn't feeling very well so she decided to take the day to rest up for the three day trek. I decide to hit the beach.


Sengigi is a very interestig place because it really looked like an abandon tourist town. Apparently before the Bali bombs in 2001 and 2002 it used to be a hot spot to visit, but since then the tourisum has significantly decreased to the point where a lot of the locals have had to find new means for income. With that said the beach (and the market) was pretty quiet, but it was still absolutely beautiful. The beach was more of a local hang out than tourist spot with lots of musilums and Indonesians so wearing a bikini was a bit weird. I did managed to find a spot with other westerns in bikinis so I didn't stick out too much.


Overall, the city was great and I think it will be a lot more of an authentic experience than the Bali beahes, but the one thing that really bothered us was the call to prayer at like 430 am. Since Indonesia is a primary Musilum country (expect Bali, they are the largest concentrated population of Hindus in th world) they have a call to prayer several times a day. Depending where you are it can be really loud, and our hotel happened to be in one of those spots where it was really loud. It sounded like someone was outside our door, or maybe even in our room chanting from about 430 am to almost 5 am. It happened several other time during the day, but at the beach it was only in the distance.


We start the trek tomorrow!

Xoxo,
Nichole and Jenny


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