Blogs from Langkawi, Malaysia, Asia - page 6

So we sat in the bus station and booked our flight (for 3 hours time!) to Langkawi. Cost us the small sum of 20 euro (never got a last minute flight so cheap in my life!) Flying out of KL was something else, it's like a city in the midst of a jungle, I was super happy to be soaring above it :) The landing into langkawi was just as special, flying over the sandy beach and seeing the mountain shaped like a face :) We stayed again at the backpacker area of Cenang beach in Rainbow lodge, this time we got our own little bungalow with a terrace for chilling in your hammock :) It's a really super place, good value and the guys are really cheery and full of info on the place :) ... read more

'tis the season! But we weren't singing fa-la-la-la-la or being jolly in the normal cold and wet this year - we were being jolly on Langkawi, surrounded by golden beaches, rich blue seas and coral reefs. Oh, and it's a duty free island, so we were a little extra jolly with the cheap booze... We were staying in a cool little concept hotel on Langkawi, called Tubotel. Each room was a large concrete tube, with a massive bed across the whole thing and glass doors at the front, so you would lie on your bed and have an unobstructed view straight out onto the tropical ocean. Pretty nice! Away to our left stretched Pantai Cenang, the main beach on Langkawi, and the stereotypical glorious tropical beach (although marred just a little by the vast number of ... read more

We had set the alarm at 6:30am in the hopes of seeing the sunrise, but when I woke and it was still raining I turned it off and got about 3 more hours of well needed sleep. Eventually, we got up and headed for breakfast just after 9:30am where we decided what to do for the day; it was still raining even at this point. I had waffles for breakfast and 'breakfast noodles' which was odd but something different. We headed back to the room and sat it out for about another half hour before the rain eased and we decided to walk down to the scooter rental place to hire a scooter for the day. It cost us only 30MR for the hire and we were ... read more

Luckily last night we were smart enough to set an alarm for 9:30am to wake up for breakfast, because otherwise we probably wouldn't have made it. Breakfast was ok, not up to the quality of the Holiday Inn Resort in Penang, but they had a large variety. We weren't exactly in the mood for eating anyway. We struggled through some cereal and I had one piece of toast with strawberry jam and that was it. Then it was pool time. We were so excited to see sun! It turned out the 8hours or so of rain we had the previous night had cleared up the air like we hadn't seen the whole time we'd been in Malaysia. Also seeming that it was Sunday, we weren't really up to any adventures today. We spent hours by the ... read more

Nick: Having pushed south and east of Penang to reach the Cameron Highlands, our latest leg has seen us travelling back in the opposite direction, past Penang to the island of Langkawi. With a few spare days to use up whilst in Malaysia, and with good transport links to the island, we decided we'd take this one last chance to get in some beach time before the end of our big adventure. Regular readers of our blog will be all too aware of my usual long-winded accounts of our experiences; having spent three very lazy days on Langkawi, doing very little indeed, I can report that this blog entry will be much more succinct! Our flight from Kuala Lumpur landed during the late afternoon on Friday, and it was a short and straightforward taxi trip to ... read more