If you're keen on island hopping, a local ferry service runs between the three islands and Sengigi, Lombok with Gili Trawangan as the hub. The local ferries can be slow, loud, and crowded ...

and that extra flights were being added for people who wished to leave Lombok. Helen Milne told the BBC that her daughter, Laura, from Oxfordshire in the UK, was on the island of Gili Trawangan.

About 1,000 foreign tourists are being evacuated from the nearby Gili islands and at least one person died on Bali. Video footage from Bali, to the west of Lombok, showed people running from their ...