Trying Freedom

I was woken up the next day at around 5am by my surprise to the sound of something being played very loudly out of speakers which I later found out were dotted all around the island.

So, after speaking to some locals it turns out that although Bali is predominantly Hindu, the Gili islands are Muslim, and on each of them there is at least one mosque which is where the prayers take place 5 times per day which are played out of speakers which is a new experience for me. I decided to head out and have a look at the mosque which was incredible given the style of the rest of the island and the remoteness.

I really didn’t mind hearing the prayers and even managed to sleep through one morning which was quite surprising, however, on my Google maps search to find the mosque I did see some interesting other views.

I personally enjoyed the high spending tourist part myself, thought you might too. I spent the rest of my day relaxing and met a couple of very nice people who were staying at the same hotel as me and also doing some travelling, Julie and Fie.

The final activity I was thinking about doing it was a yoga class at a place called Flowers and Fire around the corner and fortunately they were also going so I tagged along, it was my first class and my advice if you’re doing the same would be to tell the instructor that, I spent a lot of time looking at what everyone else was doing around me when I didn’t know what to do, or what a specific pose was and just kind of floundered about for a while, but Julie helped out too, I’m sure it made for a good laugh.

Rounded the trip off with some food at another nice restaurant before I headed of the next morning back to mainland, note this isn’t the restaurant but thought the photo looked good for you lot.