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Published: June 16th 2010
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As day four into our Langkawi trip began I finally had a chance for a lie in before we began our journey to another waterfall on the far side of the main island. It was quite a slog in our little rented car due to the windy and hilly roads through the centre of the island but it was a great drive through tropical forest areas, passing numerous groups of monkeys and strange birds along the way. Upon reaching the waterfall we found the climb to be much less exhausting than the one up to the top of Seven Wells, since there were probably less than 100 steps as apposed to 400 odd!
There was a pool at the bottom of the waterfall which served as a nice relief from the heat and humidity, although we didn't have to worry about that for long as soon enough the clouds opened and it began to absolutely belt it down. We walked slowly to some shelter, letting the rain keep us cool but just as we found some cover, the rain had stopped. Living in England has made me so used to days of rain and grey clouds but over here it can
switch from heavy rain to bright sunshine in a matter of minutes.
We then decided to head back to the Seven Wells waterfall for one reason in particular. On our last visit we met some guys who told us to visit the top of the waterfall, where there was a naturally made slide with a deep pool at the bottom. It was fun but since it hadn't rained there wasn't much water flowing, now that there had been some solid rain we wanted to go back to see if the slide would be bigger.
We drove along the north coast of the island and made a brief stop at a beach where the sand had been turned black. It was the only place in Langkawi where this happened which was a little weird but fortunately there was a completely believable explanation about a Romeo and Juliet style war in the past where the land army lay hundreds of flaming torches onto the beach to trick the sea army into thinking they were outnumbered, causing them to flee.
Anyway, onto Seven Wells where we found that we were correct. The natural slide was huge and worked so well because of the
increased volume of water flowing down from the mountains. After making the most of that, it was onto Kuah for some food before having to return the car. I should just mention that we had to fill the car up before we gave it back and found that 30L of unleaded petrol cost just over 15 quid!
Day 5 and our last full day on Langkawi. First job was to book our transport back to Kuala Lumpur so we visited Kuah where the ferry port is, booked our tickets and ate some lunch. We ate at a small Indian restaurant where we all had some Roti Canai, which turned out to be our favourite meal of the past week. It's kind of like a pancake which is served with 3 different types of sauce containing different combinations of spices, but you can also have it with curry. And in a culture where many people it with their hands, picking up food with pieces of roti canai is a good way of looking less foreign without getting your hands covered in curry!
After lunch we got a taxi back to Pentai Tengah and headed down to the beach one last time for a swim. There was a strong wind which made some wicked waves to dive into to but the fun was short lived for me since I managed to get bitten by some kind of fish. Still have the teeth marks a week later! We finished the day by playing poker til 3 in the morning, using chess pieces as chips due to the lack of any kind of poker chips. All in all a chilled day but I feel that we really made the most of Langkawi and have explored its best wonders, redeeming our failed attempt in Penang!
The next morning we got everything packed up, checked out of Zackery's guest house (which I would highly recommend as a cheap place to stay) and headed to the duty free shop near where we were staying. Bought myself a big bottle of SoCo for half the price it would be in England! Mainly to enjoy in Australia where booze is gonna be much more expensive.
Fully stocked we headed to the ferry port where Tom and Alec headed off to Thailand and Kish and I to Kuala Perlis where we would catch an over night coach to KL. To get to the ferry we had to go through customs and only realised then that we had to pay for bottles of duty free alcohol if we had more than one. Somehow, even though we said we had at least 4 bottles, Kish didn't have to pay anything and I only had to pay for one extra one which was supposed to come to a ridiculous 200 ringget but for some reason I only ended up paying 30 ringget. Thank you language barrier!
Langkawi was over, but there is much more in store for Malaysia.
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Katlyn
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The natural slide at Seven Wells seems a good idea. My next Langkawi vacation I am going to enjoy there.