Turned out it was just out of the village, and a nicely turned out little bungalow behind a gate.
We finally managed to meet our host and I tipped the taxi driver and extra 20k for getting us there. Elly our host guided us into a nice compact room with a couple of beds, and very nice and clean. The girls seemed very happy with it. We apolosided for having to ring her about the transport, and discussed with her about it. Apparently her uncle said that some tourists were being charged up to 400k by the minibuses to get to Seungigi which is about 4 times more than it should be, so it really is a bit of an issue for Lembar. Most tourists already go direct from Bali to Gili Trawangan for around 900K return to avoid this, so there is a good amount of money that could potentially be making by attracting some of the money to Lembar.
Anyway, we ended up talking with Elly until late, sitting outside on a big bed like seat, and the children fell asleep there. After a short time it felt we already knew Elly like a sister. She is a fairly atypical Indonesian woman, having spent some time living in England, and travelling on her own to some extent. That alone is unusual for Muslim woman who are normally expected to travel accompanied by a male relative.
She seemed to have wide interests and an open mind and it was a very enjoyable time to talk with her and get the Indonesian perspective on things.
We finally succumbed to sleep, partly as we'd feasted heavily on Rambutan and Mangosteen picked freshly from the orchard surrounding her house. The fruit was the best we'd had in Indonesia by a long way.
We woke quite late the next morning and made a fairly slow start, picking up the conversation easily from the night before. Nasi Goreng and fruit made up breakfast. without much of a plan Elly asked us what we'd like to do, and Eunmi suggested visiting one of the nearby Hindu temples, which turned out to be a lovely big walled garden area with a massive pond, although this had been recently emptied and people were labouriosly removing baskets of sand from the bottom, presumably to use for concrete.
We moved onto another place about 30 mins away which was apparently a past king's palatial garden. This was a beautiful place sat in a valley with large pools set a different levels down the valley. A kind of bungalow situated at the top was where the king would sit and observe his concubines swimming in the pool below.As we walked we come across these guys selling rides on a really long( -300m) flying fox which started at the top of the hill and went right down to the other side of the larger lake. It was only 35k so Ruby and I had a go. It was good but a bit slow. It breaked gently at the bottom and then you get a ride on a motorbike back around the lake to the steps back up.
We all wandered around the lower lake which was full of fish of various sizes, and the girls discovered a baby bird in the lake which they scooped out and gave a ceremonial burial.
On the way back we stopped for some Pelec at a warung in town.It's a combination of rice cake, vegetables and a lovely peanut sauce freshly ground. Very filling and nice.
That evening went much as the one before with more conversation and food.
Next day the plan from Elly was to go to a nearby beach and then outo sumbalu which is up on Mt Rinjani.
First we would go to a place just across the road from Elly's where there was a freshwater spring swimming pool and restaurant etc, that was owned by Elly's brother. It was a really nice setting with little covered seating areas around the pool and also surrounding ponds full of kai and other fish, and one huge eel.
In the end we decided to just stay there and defer going to the mountain.
We met Elly's parents there an shared a fantastically good meal of fish freshly caught, beef bone soup, omelette and vegetables.
Elly's parents seemed very kind and friendly people.
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