8 Wonders of Gili Balu
1 Night 2 Days
Camp, Discover and Flourish
Start from 500K
Gili Balu is a marine conservation area consist of 8 small islands. Located in Alas Strait and a gateway to Sumbawa Island. With unique landscapes in every small island and tropical marine life, Gili Balu offers unique experiences to discover marine and terrestrial biodiversity and cultural heritage of Bajo people who have been utilize the islands for generations. Join us on an unforgettable weekend experience with our local guide who will bring you to get closer to the heart of Gili Balu and share the stories of Bajo culture and heritage. Click here to see our location.
Enjoy beautiful views of the surrounding water, landscapes of small islands during sunset and sunrise, night time and day time.
Located in the beach with standard facilities and learn how community setup the business
Stargaze with million stars and learn how Bajo navigate the direction use stars formation
Snorkeling in various spots with high marine biodiversity and canoeing in lagoon in the mangrove forest to do birdwatching or take hiking trails with beautiful views. If you experience try to climb rocks formation
Gili Balu is home of turtles, sharks, and stingray. Your local guide can show some spot to see them
Listening Bajo people who will share the cultural history of 8 small islands. Join the cooking experiences to prepare breakfast and lunch with traditional Bajo recipes
Learn how to make octopus bait and catch octopus or fish. Listen the fishermen group how they take of managing their fishing ground
Learn how to run camping tour business that reduce the impact to environment. Taking part of marine conservation efforts such as adopt a coral or mangrove seeds
How to get there
Weather & Climate
The best season to enjoy the camping tour is between March to October
Dietary Requirement
During the trip, the meals are provided mostly seafood based and not gluten free. Limited food options are available such as tempe (fermented soy bean), tofu and vegetable (long bean, carrots, and cabbage stir-fry and moringa soup). People with food allergies are not suitable to take trip
Cultural Norm
This camping tour is run by local community group with collaboration with JARI who has been working with them for couple years. All profits go to community
Gili Balu is home of some threatened species such as turtle and manta. The tour applies some rules such as keep the noise to a minimum level, keep the distance and avoid touching. Feeding the animals are totally banned because it caused behaviour change such as become aggressive and potential disease because they consume unregular food.
We apply certain rule during the camping tour
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