Hey Cintaku, let's check out Lombok, sounds nice.
01 Mar 2021
Building our container house in Takar Akar, Lombok
The longest blog post you’ll see from us so please read and be happy in the thought that the rest will be little ones. Who needs to read this shit when there’s pictures to look at in the next post!
It all started when we decided to visit Lombok, a three day trip to check it out with a view to maaaaaaybe settling there. By the end of our very quick look around it was decided, on our last day, at a couple of hours before sunset, we stopped at a real estate agent. After a thirty minute trip to the South East of the island we found our future home. That was 2014.
Fast forward nearly seven years, we up and move from UAE and we find ourselves in Kuta, on the South coast of Lombok. If you’ve never heard of Kuta or Lombok for that matter, you’ll soon be hearing a lot about it, and not only from us.
Kuta for us was a two month temporary home, our home was going to be half an hour away. Search for Bumbang a place name that encompassed five or six small hamlets, it was split a few years back and our little hamlet was given the name Taker Akar. I was happy to live in Bumbang, it has a ring to it …….. but have now gotten used to listening to Aca Daca in Takar Akar :/ even if you still can’t find in on G Maps.
So on to the container house, why?
Visiting Lombok in August 2018 and meeting up with family members and friends to show them around the island we now call home. Seven visitors arriving in the morning and a plan for more to visit later, we settled in for our first night back on the island. We had a alarm call at about 8am, the windows rattling in their frames, Ani was up and looking out, I got up thinking the wind was blowing hard on our first day (pretty exciting for a kite surfer) I Looked out at the coconuts palms blowing in the breeze …… NOT! The first deadly earthquake of two while we were there and a month of a hundred traumatic tremors. Sadly hundreds died that morning and thousands in the later one, the epicenters were in the North of the island and they flattened villages, the communities there have still not fully recovered. Speaking to a local great grandmother, she told us that these were the first big quakes to hit the island, not only in living memory but there’s no recollection of any stories from even her great grandmother. We were traumatized but thankfully along with everybody in the South, that is all we were.
So our long time plan of having a ‘tiny house’ on stilts, with open kitchen and living area under it, got quashed that trip and quake proof earthbag buildings were now being studied full time plus a container kitchen/workshop design being worked on in tandem.
Now let’s look at some pics hey!
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The longest blog post you’ll see from us so please read and be happy in the thought that the rest will be little ones. Who needs to read this shit when there’s pictures to look at in the next post!
It all started when we decided to visit Lombok, a three day trip to check it out with a view to maaaaaaybe settling there. By the end of our very quick look around it was decided, on our last day, at a couple of hours before sunset, we stopped at a real estate agent. After a thirty minute trip to the South East of the island we found our future home. That was 2014.
Fast forward nearly seven years, we up and move from UAE and we find ourselves in Kuta, on the South coast of Lombok. If you’ve never heard of Kuta or Lombok for that matter, you’ll soon be hearing a lot about it, and not only from us.
Kuta for us was a two month temporary home, our home was going to be half an hour away. Search for Bumbang a place name that encompassed five or six small hamlets, it was split a few years back and our little hamlet was given the name Taker Akar. I was happy to live in Bumbang, it has a ring to it …….. but have now gotten used to listening to Aca Daca in Takar Akar :/ even if you still can’t find in on G Maps.
So on to the container house, why?
Visiting Lombok in August 2018 and meeting up with family members and friends to show them around the island we now call home. Seven visitors arriving in the morning and a plan for more to visit later, we settled in for our first night back on the island. We had a alarm call at about 8am, the windows rattling in their frames, Ani was up and looking out, I got up thinking the wind was blowing hard on our first day (pretty exciting for a kite surfer) I Looked out at the coconuts palms blowing in the breeze …… NOT! The first deadly earthquake of two while we were there and a month of a hundred traumatic tremors. Sadly hundreds died that morning and thousands in the later one, the epicenters were in the North of the island and they flattened villages, the communities there have still not fully recovered. Speaking to a local great grandmother, she told us that these were the first big quakes to hit the island, not only in living memory but there’s no recollection of any stories from even her great grandmother. We were traumatized but thankfully along with everybody in the South, that is all we were.
So our long time plan of having a ‘tiny house’ on stilts, with open kitchen and living area under it, got quashed that trip and quake proof earthbag buildings were now being studied full time plus a container kitchen/workshop design being worked on in tandem.
Now let’s look at some pics hey!
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