Day 8 - Lombok

Early in the morning we took a taxi to padang bai, from where we took a ferry to Lombok island. For a change we took a taxi with meter, and at the end the price for 50km was 240,000 rupia versus initial ask of 400,000 from a private driver.

The ferry terminal was full of locals - only one American girl except us four. The way to Lombok takes 5 hours and waters were generally calm.

In just an hour from departure skinny man in swiss hat sit next to me on the side of the ferry. We started talking about traveling, and he told me couple of interesting stories about himself.

Angrid was 35 years old from Batam island near Singapore, heading to Lombok for a 5-day climb at Rinjani. For last 20 years he was climbing one major indonesian mountain per year and two or three secondary ones. Also recently he has crossed Kalimantan island on military jeep on the 45-day trip.

Angrid eagerly shared his knowledge on Rinjani routes, and explained that to see volcano lake we need minimum 2 days / 1 night, and for the top - 3/2. That's something we didn't research properly before, so our climbing ambitions disappeared.

Also Angrid adviced us on crossing the ecuator on Sumatra and gave a lift on his mini van to Mataram, listening to U2 all the way ;)

In Mataram we had a quick dinner - suffered from spices again :) and then took a taxi to Senggigi, where stayed for night in a nice cottage.