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Another early morning, we woke up at 5.30am, got picked up at 6.30 and headed out toward the harbour. We hitched the fast boat to Gili Trawangan. The boat was pretty rocky but only lasted for an hour so wasn't too bad.
When we got onto the island the boat pushed off as Isaac jumped off onto the wooden step and so it just obliterated the steps in to bits, so we had to jump off the side onto the beach. We grabbed a horse and carriage (which is the only method of taxi service on Gili) to our private villa. After a rocky ride on half-finished road, we reached Villa Kokita, a private villa with a private pool and practically private beach. The manager is really friendly, an Australian guy called Josh, who says he's living an easy life and just pops in every now and then to check we are good. Probably the nicest place on the whole island. Best accommodation views I've ever had for sure. The view was just endless sea and horizon.
Literally living like kings, we swam around all day, ordered fish and chips for dinner and then had drinks (I had bought a beautiful big bottle of lemon absolute vod from the airport in S'pore) and then me, Isaac, Ben and Rick headed out for some nightlife. Josh recommended somewhere called Rudy's so we went to find that.
Drinks were 12000 rupies, but these were local spirits so we knew a bad hangover was bound to be. No one was on the centre stage at first too shy to go. But some cool Indonesians just went wild and starting breakdancing. We shortly went on and just went for it and then everybody else joined. The music was pretty club standard but I had a good time :). Rick reckoned he could pull by using the ole 'I have a private villa' act but come morning we found out he had no such luck. After a couple drinks and a substantial amount of time dancing, me and Isaac left the boys to it.
As we were walking back along we saw a half moon but half cut horizontally which was pretty crazy and something I've never seen or even heard about before! It looked really yellow and was totally mesmerising, I couldn't take my eyes off it. We also rocked up past a turtle conservation place randomly. They help baby turtles grow up safely and then release them back to the sea as hatched turtles often struggle to make it to the sea alone. There were three tanks with turtles in age groups. The first one had babba turtles, second had larger ones but still young and the third had more adolescent turtles in. I had a little play with them and a stroke of one from each age group and then continued our way home. The next day I realised there was I sign saying something like "Do you like being picked up by strangers? No? Then please don't handle the turtles" Woops, my bad.
When we got home Isaac had gotten drunker and wanted to eat food and fall asleep to a film, so we fell asleep to Tin Tin.
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