Lombok in 5 days

Indonesia's second-highest volcano; the classic route starts at Sembalun and takes two nights under canvas, with the summit reached before dawn.

A crescent-shaped lake of about 11 km² at 2,000 metres inside Rinjani's caldera, with the young, still-steaming cone of Barujari rising from it.

Two falls twenty minutes' walk apart above Senaru; Sendang Gile drops 31 metres in two steps and is reached by some 300 stairs.

The largest Gili, 3 km by 2, walkable in a loop in about two hours, with no cars or scooters: bicycles or horse carts only.

A horseshoe bay about 1.5 km long with a gently shelving floor and small, soft waves, where many visitors take their first surf lesson.

A hamlet of some 150 Sasak families on the Praya to Kuta road, kept in its old form, with woven bamboo houses and thatched roofs.

A grassy headland east of Tanjung Aan, a ten-minute climb from the car park, between the bay and the Indian Ocean.

A short beach at the island's south-east tip, tinted pink by red coral fragments; the colour shows best early and on wet sand.