Lombok in a sentence

Lombok international airport is located in southwest Lombok, 1.5 hours drive to Senggigi main tourist areas in the west Lombok, 2 hours drive to the jetty of Teluk Nara before you cross to Gili Islands and about 30 minutes drive to Kuta south Lombok.

Frequent ferry service to Sumbawa (Poto Tano) from Lombok ( Labuhan Lombok ) exists, however ferry service to Flores from Sape is infrequent.

Islam may have first been brought to Lombok by traders arriving from Sumbawa in the 17th century who then established a following in eastern Lombok.

The more contemporary marketing campaigns for Lombok/Sumbawa seek to differentiate from Bali and promote the island of Lombok as a standalone destination.

Roughly 100,000 people are estimated to have died in the immediate aftermath, on Sumbawa itself and nearby Lombok.

The quake was felt just before 4am across coastal areas in Bali and Lombok and was followed by two quakes of magnitude 6.1 and 6.5, according to the Indonesian geological agency.

We stayed at Hotel Tugu Lombok and our 4 days at this peaceful paradise was enhanced by authentic, traditional and locally hand-built beach villas, each with its own character full interior, with their own infinity pool.

Bali will always be beloved by world travellers, but Lombok is quickly taking the spotlight as Indonesia's most popular destination.

A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Lombok Sunday, sending people running from their homes and triggering a tsunami alert, just a week after a quake killed 17 people on the holiday island.

Authorities and international relief groups have begun organising aid, but badly damaged roads have slowed efforts to reach survivors in the mountainous north of Lombok, which bore the brunt of the quake.

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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton was on the island of Lombok when a powerful quake hit.

Local people ride past collapsed properties after the earthquake struck northern Lombok.

Most of the victims in the latest disaster died in mountainous northern Lombok, away from the main tourist spots on the south and west of the island.

Most of the victims were killed by falling rubble in northern and western parts of Lombok.

Nearly a week since the 7.0 quake, Lombok is still reeling but glimmers of normality are returning and devout villagers are making plans for temporary replacements of mosques that were flattened.

Officials have evacuated some patients from a hospital in Sumbawa island and in Lombok’s capital Mataram for fear of worse destruction.

On Gili Trawangan, one of three popular vacation islands near Lombok, thousands of tourists and locals spent the night on a hill fearing a tsunami, said British visitor Saffron Amis.

Rescue officials said much of the damage had hit Lombok’s main city of Mataram.

The 36-year-old worked in a school as an administrator on the island of Lombok and had herself rebuffed the principal's repeated advances.