Blogs from Perhentian Kecil, Terengganu, Malaysia, Asia - page 5

Welcome to part 5 of the blog. Apologies for the lack of blogs/contact recently but we have been on perhentian kecil, an island with no roads or cars, where the electricity only runs for 10 hours a day, as im sure you'll understand its been a little difficult getting online. Anyway, when i finished the last blog we were waiting in an internet cafe for a taxi to take us to the bus station, in order to catch the 21:45 coach to kuala besut, the departure point for ferry to the islands. Whilst waiting at said internet cafe we had a slightly scary moment. A guy dressed only in a loin cloth, with his face painted in bizarre patterns, was running up and down the street shouting at passers by. This was all quite funny until ... read more

So today we were finally leaving Koh Phangan. Great 3 weeks here I have to say and now with a week or so up our sleeves we decided to head to Malaysia and spend some time in the Perenthian Islands! Yes more islands, it is on the same coast as Phangan so supposedly it would be easy to get too and also at this time of year it is HIGH season (even though it is on the same coast though it is some 800kms away. Got another one of these Combo tickets from where we were staying, they promised us we would have no problems. Again however I hate to say it but these combo tickets ending up wasting your time, money and your patience!! The Thai's really seem to want to extract as much money ... read more

Die letzte Woche habe ich auf den Perhentians verbracht, einem tropischen Inselparadies mit strahlendem Sonnenschein, extrem feinen und hellem Sand und Wasser, das so klar war, dass man seine Zehenspitzen noch sehen konnte, wenn einem das Wasser im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes bis zum Hals stand. Das klare Wasser in Verbindung mit zahlreichen Korallenriffen um die beiden Inseln herum, machen die Region natuerlich zu einem fantastischen Tauch- und Schnorchelrevier. Tauchen kann ich nicht, aber selbst beim Schnorcheln habe ich unzaehlige Meerestiere gesehen. Ein Riff, bei dem ich mehrmals war, wimmelt von verschiedenen Riffbarschen, Lippfischen und Papageifische. Man sieht riesige Gruppen von Schwarmfischen an den aeusseren Riffgrenzen von der Groesse eines kleinen Fingers bis zur halben Armlaenge. Neugierige etwa handtellergrosse blaue Barsche mit schwarzen Streifen knabbern auch gerne ... read more

Well its been a whlie since my last blog so thought i would update you as to what i have been upto. As you all know for the last 3 weeks i have been on the perhentian islands, well for the first week and a half i was just doing some fun dives with Sunlight divers whilst i was looking for some DM work in SE Asia. When i was on the perhentians an oppurtunity arose for me to do some free lance DM work for Matahari Divers on long beach, perhentian kecil. this was my first experience of working as a DM in a resort environment as the only other experience i had was whilst i was working for Coral Cay Conservation (which is where i did my DM course). I was diving between 2 ... read more

So nice not to have to jump out of bed this morning :) Sauntered down to breakfast at about 11ish. I had museli and milk (it had been too long :P) and Rob had banana pancake which Rob said was the best one he'd had so far. We spoke to Lan the owner who said we could get a bus directly from Kuala Besut to KL for 45RM from his travel company which is good news. We walked to the village (30 min walk) passing through another private beach where a Malaysian guy asked us if we'd pose with the two Muslim women he was taking a picture of!? Odd but we agreed, maybe our last chance to be celebs! Though the walk was on a proper pathway through the jungle we still struggled as it ... read more