After checking out Hayley and I walked up the hill inland on Gili to see the views from the peak, which were nice but disappointing considering the number of stairs we had to climb to get to the top! We then visited the Turtle Conservation which is such a great scheme and all the turtles were so so adorable! As the turtles are going extinct, and only one or two in every million baby turtle from eggs will survive as young, the conservation collects the eggs and ca...

After waking up painfully hungover Emily and I went for a really lovely goodbye lunch at this beachside restaurant that basically felt like it was in the sea! We got a horse and cart back to the hostel and It was so so sad seeing Emily go - and the god awful hangover did not help matters at all. For the rest of the day I basically did nothing but sleep, I obviously needed a really lazy day. Hayley and I booked our ferry to Lombok for the following day and had t...

After spending the morning chilling and sunbathing we got ready to go scuba diving! I was a little bit nervous having not been diving in just under two years (since I got my Open Water in Thailand), but once I was l wet-suited up and on the roof of the boat sailing around the islands I was too excited to be nervous. There were four people in our group and our dive master was called Hai - a super funny guy. Hayley also happened to be on the same boat! As soon as ...

We had a lie in to try and banish the hangover..... But this didn't work at all. I was eventually woken up by someone new moving into our dorm, who happened to be Hayley - a lovely girl I travelled with for around a week in Vietnam and part of my biker gang! It's so funny how you see people again and again in all different parts of the world. Emily and I went to a nice hotel for the day and sunbathed on bean bags - I mainly just slept in the sunshine! So relaxi...

We successfully got out early to make the most of the sunshine! We found a great spot on the beachfront and the weather was incredible. However it was so ridiculously hot that it was impossible to sunbathe for more than around 10 minutes without having to get in the baby blue clear sea to cool down. The water was amazing and you could see right down to the sea floor! We indulged in a really great (hangover necessary) lunch and just in general had a really chill...