Blogs from Langkawi, Malaysia, Asia - page 8

So we arrived in Penang at the bus station in the middle of nowhere with no money and nowhere to stay, luckily I remembered a name of a street that Elise had mentioned a few days previous, so we jumped in a taxi and got him to drop us off there by passing the ATM. We then hopped out spotted a guest house and checked at reception for some prices and found out that they only had a double dorm AKA swingers Dorm but for £4 a night we couldn't resist. After being in the room for a couple minutes we had already met Bolivan couple and found out about there travels, where there heading next what there plans were for food everything. Now after traveling for 9 hours with no food as you can imagine ... read more

We arrived at the main island of Langkawi (out of 98 other islands) on Friday the 28th of March after a very busy 3 hour ferry crossing from Penang. The ferry thought it appropriate to put on Captain Philip, a film about modern sea pirates to the amusement of us passengers!! Langkawi is a very beautiful island north of Penang, just up near the Thai border. I decided I'd like my birthday here as we'd heard good things about it from other travellers and it seemed like the perfect weekend beach break. We stayed in a hostel recommended to us by Peter the Irish cyclist when we'd bumped into him again in Penang, called Zachary guest house. It was nice and had a large social area, so we met quite a few other travellers whilst staying ... read more

We thought we had researched every angle possible for our 3 hour ferry transfer from Georgetown to Malaysia’s duty free island of Langkawi. Which terminal does it leave from? How rough will the sea be? Can we take two large suitcases on board etc? With hindsight, a more relevant question would have been “Will you be playing a dreadful Chinese shoot ‘em up movie which makes the Expendables II seem like an outstanding cinematic work, preferably with Malay sub titles and at a volume that makes your eardrums burst?”. Because they that’s what they did. And it lasted over two hours. The boat itself was big, roomy and comfortable and, whilst wanting to convey how impressed I was about it to Angela, it was impossible due to the deafening explosions from the film. No matter, we ... read more

We awoke, got changed and headed out of the hostel for breakfast. After a quick coffee at Starbucks, we went to the Freecat bus stop, located at the Komptar bus Station, the main bus station in Georgetown. The freeacat bus is a local free bus service that takes you around Georgetown. We must have just missed one as we ended up waiting for ages. We got chatting to an Indian couple who were also visiting Georgetown. Eventually, the bus arrived, and we took it to the Penang state museum. The museum was incredibly interesting, well worth the visit. It was all about the history of Penang Island and it's colonisation by the British. It also gave a background as to how the Malays, the Indians, and the Chinese all came to settle in Malaysia. We then ... read more

Hello again everyone! Our blogs are coming quick as we are changing locations in Malaysia every 3rd day. After a few days in Penang, we took a very fast and efficient ferry to the island of Langkawi. The trip was 3 hours but it seemed to go by fast and even had a movie playing. Well, I made my first travel boo boo!! When booking our hotel here in Langkowi I must have accidentally clicked on Feb. instead Jan. I discovered the mistake as we were ferrying over. We just hoped they would have a vacancy but as it turned out they were fully booked up!! But luckily the hotel lady was able to get us a room across the street. Not the fancy tropical resort we had booked but it was fine. The Tropical Resort ... read more