2020.03.01 \u2013 Gili Air \u2013 Tulamben (Indonesia) \u2013 It rained heavily throughout the night. Upon our wake up, we started to question ourselves as to whether our 11am scheduled speed boat to Amed would actually be running. After our 8am breakfast, we sent a WhatApps message to the boat operator. As we did not hear back from them, I borrowed a bicycle from our accommodation and cycled to the ticket office. As I arrived, the staff were just walking in. They promptly responded that the fast boat to Amend would be running as scheduled. We left our accommodation at 10am for the busy harbor area. To our surprise, we met Mark at the dock\u2019s waiting area, our backpacker from Kamloops whom we had shared a car ride from the Lombok airport a few days ago. We shared our respective experiences from our stay at the Gili islands. We bid farewell to Mark again as we boarded our speed boat at 10:45am. The one hour boat ride to Amed was made more enjoyable by the conversation we struck with Sun – an avid divemaster. She came from Switzerland, but was very familiar with the SouthEastAsia dive sites. Upon our speed boat beach docking in Amend, our luggage was carried over to land by the locals. A driver was quick to offer us his services. Sun joined us in the car for a short ride to the dive center she had booked. We continued our route to Tulamben some 15 kms further. We struggled with driver to find our accommodation as its location under Maps.me was not accurate. After driving a few times through the small hamlet of Tulamben and with the help of Google maps, we finally found the hotel slightly off the main road. Shortly after check-in, it started pouring rain. We had our evening meal at the hotel\u2019s very popular restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n
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