Moving on

After a week of lounging, running on the beach and getting to know the Kuta area, I decided to venture out of the particularly heavy tourist zone to a smaller chain of islands, the Gili Islands. Fortunately, I met a spontaneously sweet Swedish girl who was traveling alone as well, and the two of us teamed up for the trip. First stop was a small porting town where we waited to catch the eight-hour ferry. As we arrived to the docks early, I went for a walk around through mazes of stoned alley ways and crumbling temples to eventually stumble upon a traditional market where women carried baskets on their heads and were lining up with fresh fruits and veggies...