Lombok & Gili Islands is one of those places where the obvious plan and the good plan are two different trips.

We mapped a 3-day Lombok & Gili Islands route ourselves, built for a long weekend, not a rushed one, built to avoid the same Gili Trawangan strip from day one.

This is the trip that makes the same Gili Trawangan strip look like the warm-up act, not the main event. It's free. The only cost is planning your Lombok & Gili Islands trip without it.