Scooter Jolan Jolan |

Stuffed breaks on boats…alot. So when we noticed we broke the gooseneck of our staysail boom, we had to source out a welder. Turns out the only guy who could do it was on the other side of the island…and he doesn’t pick up. So we intrepid and cheapo cruisers went to find the cheapest way to get it to him. Hiring a car and driver was expensive, renting a car was boring…mopeds I said!!!!

So two mopeds and 20$ later we had bikes for 2 days and time to explore.

After a few minutes of scooter operator error mixed with driving on the wrong side of the road and we were off. We went on small local roads through rice paddie villages and on to the coast where we found a sweet bungalow on the beach.

The island of Lombok is famously touristy, but as soon as you turn out of town and hit the local villages, Indonesian culture starts flowing through ya.

Here are some photos.

: Fisherman’s beach shelter

: Fisherman’s beach…where there is sand, there is a child making a castle!!!

: Local fishing boats

: No matter where you go around Indo…jungle, dry inland area or near the ocean…there will be someone fishing

: Gruelling work in the rice paddy

: Rice planted in rows by hand into hand tilled fields. The water is regulated by dikes off a nearby river

: Rice paddy field outside a local village.

: Gettin’ the rice to market. This lucky fellow has a bike. We saw many men carrying huge loads on a shoulder harness doing a shuffle run for what I can only imagine was a Loooooong way