Blogs from Kedah & Perlis, Malaysia, Asia - page 4

Pulau Langkawi... read more

So we arrived on Pulau Langkawi and took a cab to our hotel at Pantai Cenang. We chose one from our guidebooks that promised nothing fancy but that was clean, comfortable and feet from the beach. Checked in for 2 nights and were glad the hotel lived up to its rep. We unloaded our bags and started strolling the main street to see what our little town had to offer and then made our way to the beach and walked back to our hotel. We spent two days lazing around and then decided it was time to move on. The beach and town were nice but nothing remarkable and we had some ground to cover. So we take a taxi back to the ferry, and that's when things got interesting. So we knew that we were ... read more

Commencons par un hommage a tous les sans-papiers. nous avons connu le frisson d'avoir depasse' la date d'expiration de notre visa...d'1 jour. On se l'est joue' sueur froide et profil bas... et puis le douanier se marre et te reclame 10 euros, rien de bien grave donc... Nos premières impressions de la Malaysie: un croisement entre un entrepôt et un super-marche...pas très fun. Nous dormons dans un Motel pas trop degeu'....mais dans le quartier chinois... en plus c'est le nouvel an... mais les chinois étant etatiquement disciplines, nous dormons très bien quand même. Hier, nous avons mange' sur le marche', des tas de trucs chinois... qui ont en commun d'être tous fris ensemble. Il y avait bien un rouleau de printemps qui semblait alléchant, mais il s'est avere' fourre' au a... la viande hachée...ça mange quoi ... read more

After 90 minutes on the ferry we arrive at Langkawi Port. A taxi man finds us and agrees a reasonable fee to take us to our hotel. First impressions are it is very nice - once we get our room we grab a couple of beach towels and head to the beach for the afternoon. The water is clean and flat and we are both in a very chilled mood. We decide to stay at the hotel tonight and relax and watch the sunset - unfortunately there is a big island in the way they did't mention that in the brochure. Anyway a couple of Tiger beers later and we are off to eat in the hotel restaurant - the food was nice but it was virtually empty - looks like everyone eats out. After the ... read more

Langkawi We had an other ferry journey to from Penang to Langkawi that was a pretty boring, loud and uncomfy time - however, what greeted us was paradise! After our taxi ride we got to Zackry's guesthouse, one of the few backpacker orientated on the upper class island which is mostly home to classy holiday resorts. Zackry's is now run by an English guy and an American who make it a great place to stay. It is also a duty free island so the beer (which is heavily taxed throughout the rest of Malaysia, as it's a Muslim country) is rather cheap, just over 25 pence a can from the supermarket! The first afternoon we arrived and rented a motorbike to explore a little, it's was a stupidly hot day and not the comfiest we ... read more