During your stay on the Gili islands or in Lombok (Senggigi, Pantai Sire…), you can do a snorkeling trips around the Gili islands. Of course, you can also dive with us and some people can do snorkeling on the same boat.
The snorkeling there is famous for :
- The Nest (underwater statues, sculpture)
- Some artificial reefs, there are are old scooters
- many fishes, coral reefs
- and of course the turtles
This post and video is only about the Nest and the scooters artificial reef.
However, this is a picture about how you can see the turtes during your trip (don’t touch the sea turtle):
Snorkeling tours in the Gili islands
The Nest
The name of the underwater statue is the Nest.
Where is the underwater sculpture in the Gili islands ?
Near the west coast of Gili Meno, there is the Nest. It is front of the hotel BASK
It is an underwater sculpture made by Jason de Caires Taylor. It was ordered by the luxury resort BASK.
The depth is shallow 2 – 4 meters, so it is easy to swim above this underwater sculpture. You can stand up on the heads of the statues.
The underwater scooters
At the south-east of Gili Trawangan, there is an artificial reef, some parts are made with old scooters.
The reef is in shallow water, 3-4 meters. Easy to join from the beach if you are on Trawangan (be careful the current could be very strong and there are many boats).
Near, there is a traditional reef (without scooter) with very nice corals and many fish.
You can check some snorkeling trips around the Gili islands, start from a Gili islands, Trawangan, Meno or Air or start from Lombok. There are different tours with a private glass bottom boat: 2 hours, 4 hours or full day with visit of the Gilis duroing the trip.
