Gili Island

out of all the islands we visited, Gili was our favorite! its so tiny and there are no cars or motorbikes anywhere on the island. people travel by walking (which we did and took us an hour and a half to get around the entire thing!) and also by bicycle and horse and carriage! (pictured below) there are no roads, just dirt paths everywhere. they live a very simple life which of course matt and I were attracted to right away. then we realized how small the island really was and decided that after about a month or so, we would probably have a sever case of island fever. so rest assured, we are still planning on coming home! :)
the second picture is us and some local kids who we gave bibles too. third pic is of one of our boat man named Putu. we begged him to climb the coconut tree so he did. i'm still amazed how fast he got up and down that thing... and how high he was. i don't think american bodies can even move like that. :) there was one attempt made by crazy carl who got his name for obvious reasons, and he made it like 10 feet but then couldn't get down and ended up jumping! we learned two things: first, the trick is to keep your body away from the tree and second, it's a lot harder than Putu makes it look! the last picture is of us walking around the island.