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Friday, January 04, 2008 Lombok day 2 • Today we are going on a drive around Lombok, the day before we booked a car with an experienced driver for 8 hours costing us 680000 IDR inclusive of everything, of course we tipped the driver a token amount like 20000 IDR and give him lunch so we set off at around 9 in the morning to visit some of the most famous attraction in Lombok. before that,we woke up pretty early after an early night the day before, woke up at 7 for a walk around the beach and then for breakfast, they have quite a good breakfast spread and very nice juices. The beach in the morning anyway first stop is the traditional sasak house. the house they build is simple with leaves as cover and buffalo dung as flooring. they use buffalo dung to strengthen their house. their house is usually consist of 7 steps and inside there is usually no electricity. and next to it is the weaving area or the rice storage place. they also keep chickens or cows some pictures inside the house Preparing to weave The shop my sister bought songket (traditional cloth) from, the songket and the table cloth both together cost 130000 IDR around 20 SGD The parking area in front of the traditional houses, with flowers on the floor after being blown away by the strong wind makes a wonderful view and this is the place where they store rice after being harvested. after that we proceeded to the real weaving centre where real songket handwoven by hand is sold, but they cost almost 7-8x as much so we didnt buy any, anyway the one we bought is equally nice and bought only for keepsake and souvenir for people not for us to wear anyway on the way there we saw groups of buffaloes again, engulfed in mud, they look menacing yet cute at the same time Mount rinjani is somewhere in the distance we reached there and saw girls weaving me and my sister tried weaving but after 5 mins we give up, the back hurts like hell for being strapped with the weaving wood and need patience to be able to sit down like that everyday because real songket took a month or more to finish. Can u tell the difference? this pic and the earlier one? well I cant the cloth that is handwoven is indeed thicker and the thread can be easily seen but the machine made one is shinier and thinner and give u that whish whish sound when u walk gracefully in it the traditional sasak costume, u can wear it and take a pic in this place for a token donation but we didnt do it some paintings and the kind of 4 poster bed that I would like to have. Other wooded stuffs that they sell, they sell almost everything from hat to bag to shoes to cabinets and furniture. Sis bought a woven bag from here made of sugar cane fibres. too bad no pic of our hauls as usual. Mom will think I am made to take pic of everything though it is in the name of journalism. Anyway it is just a simple bag but cost 50000 IDR which is around 8SGD Next up is pottery, the famous stuff from Lombok is weaving, pottery and of course food. well we didnt buy anything from the pottery store, cause nothing interesting and where to put and mom already had a huge collection of breakables. and up we go to the town itself and to the most famous beach in LOMBOK the sengigi beach, a very long stretch of beach and short ferry ride away is the Gili islands, frequented very often by celebrities due to its secludedness, privacy and of course the crystal clear water very suitable for snorkelling and diving. but sad to say, we didnt cross. Mom n dad is not very adventorous to do so such thing. they just take alook and they be contented. so here is some pictures from afar, or shld i say from the car. but trust me the real thing is thousand times more beautiful after that is time for lunch lunch is at Taliwang Irama, meaning the melody of Taliwang. Ayam Taliwang is the most famous dish here. it is chicken grilled with honey and lots of chilli, btw Lombok means chilli in Javanese language. the restaurant is quite huge. there is tables and lesehan (floor seating, very cosy and comfortable) but we sit at tables here is the view and the simple menu that says everything, but they do sell mangoes too as well as crystal honey which my dad had a taste of and vowed to buy Besides the chicken we also had Bebalung soup, which is a special soup consist of bones of cow, very tasty also we have plecing kangkung which is very large kangkong, only grown in Lombok topped with special chilli combination, super tasty. the keropoks assortment, it is common to place plates of keropoks or even side dishes like fried tofu and tempe on the table and they will come and ask how many we consumed later before the final bill is made. we also have chicken feet keropok, some mangoes, my drink is coconut with crystal honey. crystal honey is white in colour. My dad bought 5 litres of it to give away and drink some. it is a little sour in taste but still very delicous after lunch we stopped at the souvenir shop, the shop sells the stuff that lombok is most famous for namely cyrstal honey, pearls (never buy any though looks super beautiful) and seaweed sweets (dodol) and other stuff like soursop sweet and tomatoes sweet the sweets i mean here is like jelly and is actually made of preserved fruits. quite nice but rather ex. My sister bought some for her friends but she said in Cirebon (ard 5 hrs drive from Jakarta ) she can get real soursop jelly for 1/3 price. this one might have preservatives inside, not sure. No pics but we bought the ones produced by Phoenix Food lombok. and then my dad dont find the honey good enough so asked our driver to bring us to another honey shop. After that we drive around mataram town before reaching the hotel at around 4, 6.5 hrs later but not before taking away some chicken for our dinner. well we paid extra hours for nothing but its ok. sis n mom went for cycling. Dad went for volleyball and I just laze on the chair for the afternoon sunset. mom came back hurt but she said it was fun. On the third day we decided to stay inside the hotel. more tomorrow P.s: the guide told us that lombok also sell bebalung kuda meaning the bone soup that we had for lunch instead of beef they cook horse instead. there is also susu kuda liar which means wild horse milk but we didnt buy because it has preservatives inside. the real fresh one had to be bought from sumbawa, 3 days drive away. Labels: Lombok Bali Trip 3:46 pm