Mount Rinjani & Gili Air 5D4N Itinerary 2017

Selamat pagi.

Finally it is time for us to write about our Mount Rinjani hiking trip plus Gili Air island trip :P it happened on November last year, not too late to share our hiking story LOL! Generally this is quite an easy trip since what we need to do is book air ticket, find a reliable tour agent at Lombok, choose a package, do payment and fly there :P The most difficult part is training beforehand to get ready for the 3days 2nights hike!!!

Generally package offered by tour agents here are quite similar. For our case, the package included all transportation, accommodation and hiking expenses. Since we are going to stay 3d2n at Mount Rinjani, there are 6 porters and 2 guides (one trainee) followed us all the way. Porters are responsible to carry all food, water, cooking utensils and tents, while hikes carried their own necessities throughout the three days. Salute them!

Our tour agent is Rinjani Trekking Club, Senggigi. Highly recommended them, professional, sincere, helpful, friendly and most importantly is their experience and their love to the mountain. One very important thing is their practice of do not leave anything on the mountain. They packed all rubbish and bring down, instead of packed the rubbish and left on the mountain. Some porters actually did that, and it is sad to notice that monkeys would dig the packed rubbish and this caused rubbish ended up scattered around the mountain, especially at the tent site area.

Our itinerary as listed here:

Day 1

KLIA 2 – Lombok International Airport – Met the tour agent and hopped onto the car – travelled all the way to Sembalun – Checked in to Sembalun Agro Villa & Restaurant.

Day 2

Breakfast – Start hiking from our hotel (1156m) – Pos 1(1300m) – Pos 2 (1500m) – Pos 3 (1800m) – Crater Sembalun (2639m) – Overnightat Crater Sembalun.

Day 3

Ready to conquer the peak – Summit Rinjani (3726m) – descendto Crater Sembalun (2639m) – Pos 3 (1800m) – Overnight at Pos 3.

Day 4

Pos 3 (1800m) – Sembalun Village (1156m) – Transfer to GiliAir – Checked in to 7 Sea Cottages Hotel.

Day 5

Explore Gili Air – transfer to Lombok International Airport – KLIA2 – Home sweet home :)