Wednesday's Anchovies

Selamat Pagi. After a good sleep we are ready to conquer Mount Rinjani. We repacked our luggage and those not necessary items were packed and passed to our tour agent. They would bring our extra luggage and meet us again after 3days. All of us have to pack light for the coming 3days hike. After simple breakfast at the hotel, we departed around 8am. Don't be surprise that our starting point is our hotel! Target today is to hike from Sembalun Agro Villa and Restaurant until our camp site of first night - Crater Sembalun. From our villa, we walked through farms, towards our destination :) One step closer :) We spent around 3hrs to reach pos 2. It is time for lunch and our porters set up a temporary tent to cook for us. Chill time while waiting lunch to be served :) There are 3 types of hiking package. Food is different of course and the next significant point is the tent! Type 1 is luxury where you get to dine in a tent with chairs and t...

Selamat pagi. Finally it is time for us to write about our Mount Rinjani hiking trip plus Gili Air island trip :P it happened on November last year, not too late to share our hiking story LOL! Generally this is quite an easy trip since what we need to do is book air ticket, find a reliable tour agent at Lombok, choose a package, do payment and fly there :P The most difficult part is training beforehand to get ready for the 3days 2nights hike!!! Generally package offered by tour agents here are quite similar. For our case, the package included all transportation, accommodation and hiking expenses. Since we are going to stay 3d2n at Mount Rinjani, there are 6 porters and 2 guides (one trainee) followed us all the way. Porters are responsible to carry all food, water, cooking utensils and tents, while hikes carried their own necessities throughout the three days. Salute them! Our tour agent is Rinjani Trekking Club, Senggigi. Highly recommended them, professional, sincere, h...