Trip to Lomboc
7th 8th June Lomboc
So I dropped off the moped in Ubud and spent a day walking allong the river vallies and paddy fields.
Then it was time to get moving again.
Detination Lomboc, the next island over.
So time at last to give public transport a go.
I got a bemo, (little bus) to Gianar, then changed to get a bus to Padangbai.
The game on public transport is to try to figure out the price of the journey before you get there. This involves asking your other passengers in the indonesian that I have managed to learn so far, (things like "thanks", "how much", "good" and the numbers etc.)
Then they have to tell you kind of on the quiet because they are spoiling the chance of the bus conducter to overcharge you.
They also would ofter prefer to hire the whole vehicle to you for a big price so you have to watch out for that.
Then a third bemo (bus) to get the last two km to the port
At this point when you approach the port two guys get on to direct the driver to take you to their ticket office where you are informed that the ferry costs 50,000 rupia and is leaving in 5 minuites, which are both lies.
So you walk up to the ferry terminal and are decended on by touts who want to sell you the ticket for 25,000 then 22,000 then 20,000.
I refuse them all because I hate pushy touts.
In the end it costs 22,000 from the official office when it finally opened.
I think then only give tourists the 1st class even though they are the only ones foolish enough to sit out on deck for the journey.
I met some nice other travelers with the same destination.
They were going to stop in a seaside resort Sengigi before heading to the gilly islands.
When we arrive I tried to negociate my way onto their tourist transport but the touts were playing hardball about the price and the driver drove off.
So I got onto a bus to Matram again playing "what is the price" asking the other passeners etc.
One of the passengers said that their brother was going by moped to Sengiggi for work tonight and would take me so I got off the bus with them.
I was shown great hospitality with all sorts of fruits and buns while we waited for the brother.
The mother had very few teeth and would casually kick or whip one of their 13 dogs.
The father was wirey, I'd say they both looked about ten years older then they were.
The brother turned out to be working untill 4am so they offered me his bed for the night.
Wonderfull hospitality with dinner and all, the house was very basic with one bedroom.
I slept in the single bed, the father daughter and grand daughter in the double, (no real matresses). The mother and son slept outside.
The next morning the son gave me a lift to where I could get a bemo to Senggigi.
I met up with the other guys and managed to negciate my way onto their transport for the rest of the journey.
So
So I dropped off the moped in Ubud and spent a day walking allong the river vallies and paddy fields.
Then it was time to get moving again.
Detination Lomboc, the next island over.
So time at last to give public transport a go.
I got a bemo, (little bus) to Gianar, then changed to get a bus to Padangbai.
The game on public transport is to try to figure out the price of the journey before you get there. This involves asking your other passengers in the indonesian that I have managed to learn so far, (things like "thanks", "how much", "good" and the numbers etc.)
Then they have to tell you kind of on the quiet because they are spoiling the chance of the bus conducter to overcharge you.
They also would ofter prefer to hire the whole vehicle to you for a big price so you have to watch out for that.
Then a third bemo (bus) to get the last two km to the port
At this point when you approach the port two guys get on to direct the driver to take you to their ticket office where you are informed that the ferry costs 50,000 rupia and is leaving in 5 minuites, which are both lies.
So you walk up to the ferry terminal and are decended on by touts who want to sell you the ticket for 25,000 then 22,000 then 20,000.
I refuse them all because I hate pushy touts.
In the end it costs 22,000 from the official office when it finally opened.
I think then only give tourists the 1st class even though they are the only ones foolish enough to sit out on deck for the journey.
I met some nice other travelers with the same destination.
They were going to stop in a seaside resort Sengigi before heading to the gilly islands.
When we arrive I tried to negociate my way onto their tourist transport but the touts were playing hardball about the price and the driver drove off.
So I got onto a bus to Matram again playing "what is the price" asking the other passeners etc.
One of the passengers said that their brother was going by moped to Sengiggi for work tonight and would take me so I got off the bus with them.
I was shown great hospitality with all sorts of fruits and buns while we waited for the brother.
The mother had very few teeth and would casually kick or whip one of their 13 dogs.
The father was wirey, I'd say they both looked about ten years older then they were.
The brother turned out to be working untill 4am so they offered me his bed for the night.
Wonderfull hospitality with dinner and all, the house was very basic with one bedroom.
I slept in the single bed, the father daughter and grand daughter in the double, (no real matresses). The mother and son slept outside.
The next morning the son gave me a lift to where I could get a bemo to Senggigi.
I met up with the other guys and managed to negciate my way onto their transport for the rest of the journey.
So
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