Blogs from Terengganu, Malaysia, Asia - page 22

Early start for us at 5am on Thursday. We flew Air Asia to Kota Bharu in the north east of Malaysia. I slept most of the way. At the airport we met 2 girls from Devon, Jess and Yulanda, whom we shared a taxi with to get us to Kuala Besut. This is where you get the speed boats out to the marine reserve islands of the perhentians, the two main ones being Besar and Kecil. The beauty of them is there are no airports or roads or cars, just jungle, beaches, rocks and turquoise waters filled with coral and marine life. Our accomodation was called D'Lagoon and was situated on the smaller island, Kecil, in a remote position north of long beach where the young uns go to get drunk. It is basically a few ... read more

Missing Malaysia photos as promised. Check out how gorgeous The Perhentian Islands are!!!!... read more

It has been about 9 years since I first travelled to the island of Perhentian Kecil, Peninsula Malaysia. It was a 10-day holiday from Japan with my friend Ashley and I can truly say we were enchanted. We had an overwhelming feeling that we were really priviledged to be in such a gorgeous and untouched place, where the beach was pristine, the snorkelling great, and the lifestyle rediculously horizontal. We didn't even have electricity, meaning that once our little gas lamp had been blown out for the night, there was no more light until daybreak. Evenings were spent sitting around the bonfire drinking home-made Baileys poured from a tin kettle. It was a true paradise. Three years ago I returned with Scott for a 6-week stint of snorkelling and sunbathing. Of course there were a lot ... read more

We’ve just arrived back from the Perhentian Islands after 10 relaxing days. For the first 8days we stayed at Coral Bay on the smaller of the two islands, it was nice and quiet compared to Long Beach on the other side of the island (where we had originally planned to spend 4 of the 8 nights). The beach itself was quite small and scattered with coral, unlike Long Beach where the beach was large and made up of white sand, but the atmosphere was much more relaxed and welcoming. As soon as we arrived we dropped our bags and went snorkeling but there wasn’t that much to see near the shore which was slightly disappointing. When we got out of the sea we started to walk back along the beach and got tangled in a really ... read more

Hello again everyone. Really starting to get the hang of the blog now. We've just arrived in Kuala Lumpur airport again after 3 nights on kecil Island, one of the 2 Perhentian Islands. We stayed at the Senja Bay Resort. The place was breathtaking. It was like a paradise Island. No roads, just 3 or 4 boats coming onto the beach everyday with supplies. The water was crystal clear with tropical fish all around. We walked from one side of the island to the other in about 5 minutes through a jungle clearing. There was only 2 or 3 restaurants on our beach but we were staying full board so didn't have to worry about food. There was no beer on our beach but we did find a small bar on long beach to quench our ... read more