Percutian ke Lombok

Lombok is a group of islands located next to the popular destination, Bali. Let’s see the summary for this trip.

Date: 21^st – 23^rd August 2014

Duration: 3D2N

Type: Leisure/ Department Trip/ Package tour

Airlines: Air Asia

My company has organized an annual department trip and this year, one of the destination is Lombok (after weeks of voting process). We were given allowance of RM600 each for this department trip. The key person for this trip was our colleague who took care for everything. We just relax pretty much the whole duration of this trip.

There were 3 groups for this trip based on their excursion for the trip – Dive Group, Snorkeling Group and Waterfall Group. Since I have not acquired my diving license yet, I go for the Snorkel Group. I heard Lombok has these pristine beautiful beaches. More beautiful than Bali.

The race we have to endure is the flight ticket race. Because I was in Europe during the discussion, I bought my tickets pretty last minute. My ticket cost around RM456 return – this is the basic ticket, no luggage and no meals.

Our hotel for the entire stay is Santosa Village in Senggigi. Senggigi is a coastal area which is popular for tourist. Most of the hotels are located in Senggigi and the price are not bad either. One room for one night costs us RM 235 including breakfast.

The snorkeling package which we visit 2 islands costs us RM 52. For waterfall tour it costs around RM 55. Cheap right?

On the departure day, our flight was at 3.35p.m from KLIA2. This was my 3^rd time boarding at the newly open KLIA2. Kak Mar and I took half day off and went to KLIA2 via ERL at KL Sentral. From our office, its quite near thanks to LRT. Arrived at the airport, we meet Kak Tasha and other collegues who were on the same flight as I did. We have lunch and board the plane.

Here’s a story. Our flight was delayed for 30-40 minutes and some of my collegues went to buy some drinks. However, they did not manage to return on time. We waited at the gate with their bags, praying that they reached here soon. We did not exchange number *lesson there*. Luckily, they finally made it! The journey took us 3 hours where we arrived Lombok almost 7 p.m.

Menggigil kitorang ni ha. Mana taknya, bag semua tinggal kat boarding hall, orangnya tak sampai sampai. Masa tu kitorang mampu berdoa jelah sebab plane memang tunggu diorang je ni.

We arrived in Lombok, go through immigration and was picked up by our driver. We first went to dinner of course. Lapar kot aku tak makan. The driver took us to a place for Ayam Bakar. Apparently this is very popular throughout Indonesia. The food was okay, we bonded a lot during dinner before finally proceeding to the hotel. It was dark outside so don’t bother to even look for anything.

We checked in and we got lost trying to find our room. We found out that our room was actually at the end of the terrace.  Our room is a triple room, when we got there there was no extra bed. Have to wait around 12.30 a.m for the extra bed to finally come. Didn’t do anything much that night. We just shower, unpack and sleep.