Paradise Part One: Getting to Gili Meno

All for one and one for all, Joel, Chardaie and I began our adventures in Singapore.  

My favorite sight in the city of Clean and Green was a Christian Lacroix exhibit at the museum.  The funky displays of opera and ballet costumes were accompanied by lots of fabulous sketches and drawings.

After extensive transportation through three countries in 48 hours, a night on an airport floor and a lot of hassle and ridiculous red tape to get tickets to three different, uncomfortable budget airlines, we arrived safely in the land of R&R and fabulous food.

Exhibit one: lunch at a roadside Warung.  There's one thing on the menu each day.  And it's good.

First dinner.  Looking a little wearied from all the travel and pink from the four-hour ferry ride.  Incidentally, the ferry ride took us to Sengiggi, where we planned to then take a bus and catch a boat to Gili Meno.  Alas, we'd been duped into overpriced tickets and the next little boat to the quiet Gili island did not leave until morning.  Luckily this nasi goreng saved the night.

Welcome to Gili Meno. 

(the boat to the left was our promised, belated, mode of transportation to our first stop in Paradise)

And our final mode of transportation to the bungalow, where we intentionally lost track of time and threw our worries to the ocean breeze.

A fun fact: "Gili" means island.  So the "Gili Islands" is a rather redundant name.  But hey, when the island's this nice, why not say it twice?

We stayed at the Good Heart.  How could you not fall in love with this place?

Beautiful.  Chaotic transportation and hectic spontaneity totally worth this view.

Dinner view.