http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Malaysia , Terengganu , Perhentian Besar en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:18:30 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:18:30 UTC We headed to the Perintian Islands at 5am in a minibus from the banana GH it was fab as it was just us so we had 3 seats each and the driver woke us when we got to the boat. we stayed on the larger of the 2 islands Perhintian Besar the quieter island we lounged on the beach and in the water and played with the frizbee all day and just relaxed. At dinner time henry had fresh caught snapper cooke http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-329239.html Today we had decided to check out of Maya's and move to the larger island of Besar. After saying our goodbyes we hopped into the taxi boat and sped over to Abdhuls Chalets. Alot more expensive but we wanted to live out our last few beach days in style with air con at nightThe chalets were great and nice and quiet. There was even a fenced off section in the water to swim in. We checked in and hea http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-328862.html The plan for today was to do nothing Unfortunately when we woke up it was a bit overcast although still quite warm. We got some breakfast and decided to play a few games on the beach. You coulkd tell the sun was trying to push through the clouds but it wasnt quite strong enough. Rachael stayed on the beach most of the day with an occasional break for a swim and I mixed up the day by sitting in th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-328855.html Hi everyoneHope everyone had a wonderful labor day it was the malaysian independence day here on Sunday and starting Monday ramadan with all the muslim majorities fasting for the next month. It's really amazing to me that they can't even drink water all day. seems almost dangerous. It means all the malay restaurants are closed so food options are more limited Itrsquos JuHyunrsquo http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-319200.html We know titles have descended into sillyness now but to be fair its all nearly over now so we havn't got time to think of blog titles. We will be back in the UK in a week its worrying to even say it. But hey we will save all those end of travels type messages for the final blog from Singapore we think......Anyway how are you readers Hope you are all well and have been behaving yourselves http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-318855.html We arrived in Malaysia after an exhausting 18 hours on airplanes not to mention long hours of layovers and waiting in airports. We broke our journey in Singapore for one brief night before continuing on to Kota Bahru via Kuala Lumpur the next day. We had originally intended on beginning work in Indonesia upon arrival but fate intervened and we were left with a spare week. We decided to sp http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-313338.html Efter turen I hoejlandet var det tid til at komme ud paa paradisoerne og se om de kunne leve op til navnet. Det gjorde de og det var naermest som om tiden gik i staa naar man traadte af baaden. Efter et par dages afslapning tog vi paa snorkel tur. det var en super lun tur vi fik dykket med skilpadder hajer og mange andre fisk bla. triggerfish som vi svoemmede helt op i gaelderne paa for at tage http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-313077.html heute nacht sind wir leider schon wieder von unserer Inselreise zurckgekommen..zum glck kann man sagen dass man malayischen buskomfort berhaupt gar nicht mit dem deutschen vergleichen kann. Fr umgerechnet 6 euro pro person bekamen wir eine 8 stndige busfahrt der luxusvariante mit sitzen die man in liegelage bringen konntenund seeehr viel beinfreiheit.. dementsprechend gut haben wir auch http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-309800.html 22 July 2008 Perhentian IslandEarly flight to KL and then on to Kota Bharu with Air Asia the better asian equivalent of Ryan Air. While waiting for the boat transfer over to the islands we realise we've left a handluggage bag ont the flight containing snorkels swimming gear suncream in short everything essential to our 5 days on the islands. A couple of hours later we hear they've located http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-305579.html Hi all hope you're all well. We're writing to you from a free WiFi bar in Kho Phi Phi Thailand. We've just had a nice breakfast and it looks like it may be sunny today....fingers crossed. Anyway where did we leave off I think we had just left Singapore.....We decided we'd like to take the jungle railway up to the north east of Malaysia so we spent a day travelling up to a place called Men http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-304571.html Saa er vores sidste dag her paa Perhentian gaaet og vi skal til at pakke vores grej ned.Idag fandt vi en laekker pool paa Arwana Resort paa en anden strand som vi benyttede os af hele dagen. Det var fantastisk ubeskriveligt pragtfuldt dejligt endelig at komme i vandet Det var helt befriende... Desvaerre var det foerst idag vi fandt stedet for det kunne jeg godt have brugt noget tidligere paa u http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-299598.html As soon as we got off the bus in Kuala Besut we were ambushed by people trying to sell us boat tickets to the Perhentian Islands. We weren't sure if they were trying to rip us off and charge us more than they should so we walked towards the pier with a couple we met on the bus Khalid from Qatar and Mira from Malaysia. Surprisingly everyone did actually charge the same price including th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-299428.html Hej igen.Vi har baade gode og daarlige nyheder hernede fra...Det gode er at vi har faaet snorklet og se mange fisk. Stranden er laekker og der er et rev lige udenfor med masser af koraller og fisk. Jeg havde lejet en redningsvest og et par finner og kom langt ud sammen med Joergen. Det er ret sjovt faktiskDet daarlige er at jeg har faaet udslet paa hele kroppen og haft det i tre dage nu. Har vae http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-298300.html Singapore's railway station is famed for its stained glass windows depicting Malayan scenes and of course its colonial architecture. We had decided that there was no better way to start our overland trip back to Europe than by traveling on the jungle railway from this colonial relic. The other interesting thing about the station is that it doesn't actually belong to Singapore at all. It belongs to http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-297329.html Efter en MEEEEEGET lang tur kom vi endelig hertil. 14 timer i bumletog 1 time i en meget mystisk taxi der slet ikke var en taxi vandren forvirret rundt i Kuala Besut for at finde vores baadkontor en halv times vild speedbaads sejlads og saa var vi her endelig Vi har chekket ind paa Tuna Bay I kan se det paa nettet www.tunabay.com tror jeg. Internet er vildt dyrt. Maden er vildt dyr men http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-296772.html En meterlang skilpadde trolig green turtle beveger seg p havbunnen femseks meter under deg. Plutselig skyter den fart og begynner stige mot overflaten. Du m bruke svmmefttene til bremse for ikke komme for nrme det fantastiske dyret. En fantastisk skue spesielt i det den stikker hodet over vann og fyller lungene med luft. Sekunder senere er skilpadden p vei ned mot bunnen. Du flg http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-291446.html Despite my best intentions I havenrsquot been able to keep the site as up to date as I would have liked so this entry is a little bit outdated. Back in April I spent a week on the Perhentian Islands in Malaysia. It is an absolutely amazing place and every day was spent snorkelling or diving around the islands. Mass tourism is slowly making its way to the islands but there is still a chance t http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-284501.html Now this was a nice suprise We will be diving here for until the start of next month and then perhaps go to Borneo.... Then home 8I also have about 4050 pics and five more videos of this bad boy or girl. In case you are wondering it's about 8 meters long http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-281028.html Wersquove 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 larg http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-277230.html I decided to go to Perhentian Island for some sun and sand. This island is found on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia in the South China Sea. Ahhso beautiful It took 2 planerides 1 hour of taxi and 45 minutes of boat to get to this island.I am happy to say that this is where I completed my 100th dive Apparently tradition among divers is to celebrate this all important milestone by di http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-268604.html Date visited 3rd1011th AprilThe Island of Besar 'Big Island'We boarded our express sleeper train at 1800 hrs from Singapore and got to our lower berth economy sleeping area where we would spend the next 14 hours. We hoped this decision would ease stress at the MalaysianSingapore border as going by bus would have meant getting off about 3 times with backpacks and queing long hours. Alth http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-267705.html Perhinthians Malaysia Wow amazing etc etc 19th March 22nd MarchI cant remember anything out of the ordinary on route to The jetty for the perhinthians from Taman Negara.I'm just so glad to be so close to 3 days relaxing on some lovely tropical island and beach in the sun after all the hard work and walking and leeches in the jungle.like the rest of the people i feel I was itching to get o http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-265629.html From Koh Lanta we made Trang by minibus employing ferry two times in three hours. Having lunch there we transferred to another minibus and travelled another three hours for Hat Yai. Instead of 3 orsquoclock they put us to another minibus at 5 pm to Penang. At around 7 pm we were at the border under heavy rain. Almost no formalities at the border. We reached Penang at 10 pm in George Town. Ge http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-264690.html Heading north from Singapore we stopped over for a night in Melacca where it hammered down with rain but that didn't bother us too much as we had happened upon the ldquoTraveller's Lodgerdquo a plush guest house with full aircon wet room and 3 beds all for just a tenner. The three of us were definitely hoping that this was a sign of things to come In Mellaca we headed out for a great com http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-229750.html My last week on paradise island came around far too quickly. Managed to catch up with sunbathing we managed to follow Molly the Hawksbill Turtle during her feed where she came up for air 4 times and I had my camera Many games of scrabble and misc card games and I think we've exhausted every possible film for pictionary How many films have got 'world' or 'family' inWe also did a Fish I.D http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-206332.html A little joke for you all What lies on the bottom of the sea and shakes A nervous wreck.ANYWAY...After almost a whole day of umming and ahhing Fran Kate and I decided to do the Advanced Open Water course along with Sarah Liz and Gemma. The wreck dive sounded really interesting as did the underwater photography and as for the night dive We'll see about that... There is also no final exam http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-206323.html Yesterday spent recovering after our trip to Long Beach Set off on Sunday afternoon and found rooms to stay at Panorama hostel complete with a big owl sat outside which we all thought was stuffed at first Shared with Kate Laura and Fran in a room with AIR CON Which we were all excited about.However it only lasted as long as a nap as by the time I woke up the Air Con had conked out ah well. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-206314.html This morning I went to Sugar Wreck up to that point it was my favourite dive the wreck was so cool it had an air pocket 7 metres below sea level which Jon and I went up to. I saw my first squid which there were 8 of I didn't know what they were so I pulled on Jon's fin and asked him what they were he did the sign for squid which happened to be a dance move from the dive dance at Long Beach so http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-206280.html WOW what a busy day It was only me that decided to do my Advanced and Jon was my instructor again. First thing this morning we went to Fish House for my deep dive you have to do deep and navigation dive to pass Fish House was a load of bamboo poles in the middle of the sea that fisherman have put there to attract the fish so my first worry was that I might get caught in a fishing net ha ha http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-206273.html Had a fab night last night went over to Long Beach after lunch sat in the sea for ages as it was so hot. Julie Katherine Katie Sarah Liz and I all went for Katie's 19th birthday. We stayed at the Panorama again and stayed in the same room. I wandered round the shops in the afternoon and when we were all ready to go out we went to Bubu's for cocktails then went for dinner at Panorama.We went http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Besar/blog-206272.html