Blogs from Terengganu, Malaysia, Asia - page 26

These entries are gonna be abit vague because I havn't updated anything for ages! After the jungle we caught another bus upto the East coast where we caught a high speed boat to the islands. The weather was amazing so we were loving chilling on the beach because since we arrived in Asia it had been overcast most the time... I decided to do my Advanced scuba diving course which was excellent. The diving was amazing and I saw loads of different fish, including a shark and turtle which was cool. I also went on a night dive which was certainly an experience! Apart from the diving we just hung about on the beach because theres really not alot else to do there. Justin decided to head back to the mainland so he could get the ... read more

Did the 1 til 5am shift this morning, did it with Julie instead of Gemma as she had to get up early to take some guests out snorkelling. We just played Uno all night, we didn't see any turtles but we did see five rats!!! Kenneth and Harick taught us all to skin dive, we had our fins, masks and snorkels and had to take a deep breath and swim down to just above the coral, then come up for air when you need it, we have to collect Drupella, which is a purple shell with a yucky snail thing inside which eats the coral. Found it really hard to spot them at first but once I got going I found quite a few. Glad I know how to do it now though as I will ... read more

Had a fantastic day today, after a wrote my last blog I went snorkelling with Fran and Katherine but the current was really strong so we soon came back, plus I'm sure a shark was giving me the evil eye so I was pleased when we got back on to the beach. A bit later on Harick (works here) asked if any of us wanted to go for another snokel, Liz and I went with him and I saw TWO TURTLES!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were both female, Olive Ridley's which are very rare, the first one was quite big and swam right below me. They were so beautiful and I couldn't wait to get back to the beach and tell everyone, we ended up swimming for ages, I think about 2 hours and went quite far out. Tonight ... read more

Two tropical islands, aquamarine clear warm waters, golden sands, tropical forests, amazing coral reefs, thriving marine life...beaches to suit all...from the quiet romantic retreats for the wealthy, to the socialable backpacker's destination of Long Beach, complete with chalets (and shacks!), restaurants, dive centres and snorkling trips...that's where I have just spent the last six days, and they have undoubtedly been some of the very best of my travels so far. Long Beach was social heaven for the backpacker...I met so many people during my time there through the daily anyone join in volleyball games at 5pm, group meals afterwards, drinking and dancing until 3am at Palm Tree bar and general friendliness of the location. I also bumped into two friends from my travels in New Zealand, Mark and Lee, whilst walking down the beach on my ... read more

We got the night bus at 9:00pm from Penang and arrived at Kota Baharu at 5:00am where we had to wait 2 hours to get a boat across to the Islands. The Perhentian islands consist of two islands Besar (meaning big island) and Kecil (meaning small island). We headed by speed boat to the big island, which took half an hour compared to getting a slow boat which takes an hour and a half. We really enjoyed this, even though we hadn't managed to get much sleep due to some very annoying people on our bus! As we pulled up to the beach the sea was absolutely stunning, it was a beautiful turquoise colour and it was so clear you could see the bottom, it definitely looked like paradise (thanks Louise for recommending it!) We were ... read more