Couple of days ago we bought new plants – Clerodendron Thomsonae also known as Bleeding Heart Vine or Glory Bower Vine.
It has wonderful white and red flowers!

What we read about this plant is that it needs good drained soil, which on Gili Meno and especially in Adeng-Adeng can be a bit of problem, but we will try to solve it to make this flowers happy.
Another problem with gardening here on the island is water salination. If plants don’t tolerate salty water they just die no matter how hard we try to grow them.
Becouse Clerodendron Thomsonae is a climber we hope it will feel good covering our Inkommerfar Bar which serves delicious ice cold drinks.

The year for Adeng-Adeng so far seems to end very well.

Today we finally finished the renovations of bungalow 2 so we now have three bungalows ready for rent. It took a lot of hard work from a lot of people but we manage to do it in the last second. All three bungalows are occupied from today until the 4th of January next year.

The restaurant and beach bar are open and we already today have had quite a few guests enjoying our cocktails and lunch. Tonight we gonna fire up the grill and have a barbecue on the beach and later in the night we’ll light up the sky with some fireworks.

What else? Two days ago one of our workers, Sam, came carrying a turtle. It had gotten stuck in a fishing net outside the island. We did get the honor of letting it back into to ocean. It seemed very happy

Building a bungalow resort on a small island in the Indian Ocean has it’s own twists and quirks. We are a small team of swedes building a resort called Adeng-Adeng with bungalows, a restaurant and bars on Gili Meno. Gili Meno is a small island, approximately 5 km around, which is positioned in the middle of three islands just north west of Lomobok, Indonesia.

In this blog we will be posting about the work being done here.

By the way, adeng-adeng is Sasak and the meaning is doing something relaxed, slow and controlled.