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Here's our gay guide to the Gili Islands in Indonesia, with gay friendly places to stay, eat, drink, and more. There's also plenty of partying for when you want it or complete remote island solitude when you just want to be completely cut off from the world. And then there are those phenomenal magical sunsets, every evening!

In summary, the Gili Islands impressed us a lot. We've put together this detailed gay guide of the Gilis based on our firsthand experience traveling here as a gay couple, which we hope inspires and helps you have a fun and safe trip:. Heads up: We just wanted to let you know that this post contains affiliate links.

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That means if you book something through one of those links, we'll get a small commission, at no extra cost to you. It helps us keep our blog going — so thank you in advance for your support! The Gili Islands are made up gay 3 small islands that lie off the northwest coast of Lombok island. Gili Trawangan is the largest and craziest of the three with a population of around 1, people.

Party gay boys will want to base themselves right here. Gili Meno is the smallest of the three only 2km long and 1km wide with a population of just people. It lies in the middle between the two other islands. It's the quietest island, the most remote with very few facilities. This is the island for those of you who want indonesia live out their Tom Hanks Cast Away-inspired fantasy!

Gili Air is the gay smallest of the three and in our humble opinion, the best one. It's like a compromise between crazy hectic Gili T bar not as remote as Gili Meno. This is the island most popular with gay honeymooners or couples seeking out a quiet beach retreat. Most will arrive at Bali Airport. From here you have two options to reach the Gilis.

The first is via a short domestic minute flight to Lombok island's airport, followed by a minute speedboat to the Gilis. In the alternative, you can get a taxi over to the Padang Bai Port bar then a 1. Remember this is Indonesia, a country with a shockingly terrible reputation in relation to LGBTQ rights, which is getting progressively worse each year.

Instead, the government keeps pushing for quite nasty laws that negatively target the LGBTQ community, the most recent being the Family Resilience Bill. We found it to be almost as tolerant and open-minded as Bali, just minus the gay scene. As a gay couple, we had no problem booking a double bed in any of the hotels we tried in the Gili Islands most are foreign-owned and run which helps.

Indonesia, we always took care to avoid PDAs unless we were in a spot that was completely isolated or we knew to be queer-friendly. As such we were ok and never encountered any problems. In the worst-case scenario, locals would ask us if we are brothers — a common question we're now used to….