To the beach

It's now nearly two weeks since I got back to the UK and more than that since a lot of the things I'm trying to remember happened. Will do my best to write something fun anyway.

Once we landed on Langkawi island, we got a taxi to our hostel. There was a bit of confusion when the taxi driver couldn't read my handwriting but we made it. Megan had stayed at the hostel before on a previous travel adventure so had a couple of friends among the hostel staff.

We dumped our bags and decided to head straight to the beach. The beach was brilliant with white sand and blue sea. Not too busy either. I had a bit of a swim/paddle and it was lovely. We spent a lot of time hanging out on the beach and occasionally going into the sea.

The beach

As the island did not have much traffic and they drive on the same side as the UK, I had my first experience of driving abroad the next day. We hired a car to explore the island further and headed first to a cable car that Megan hadn't managed to go on last time she was on the island. Sadly it wasn't to be, the cable car was shut for maintenance for the exact days we were on the island. Disappointing. We headed on to a waterfall nearby. After climbing several hundred steps (which in the heat and humidity wasn't that easy), we got to the top of the waterfall.

We then moved onto another beach. This beach was a bit quieter than the one we went to the day before so we spent more time swimming in the sea and chilling out on the sand. Lovely.

On our final day in Langkawi, we joined an island hopping tour. There are loads of smaller islands surrounding Langkawi including one called the Pregnant Lady Island (because the rocks looked like a pregnant lady having a lie down) where there was a freshwater lake in the middle. We also got to see some eagles being fed next to another island before going onto a final island where there was a beach to laze around on.

Freshwater lake with the pregnant lady rocks behind

We headed back to Kuala Lumpur the following morning on an AirAsia flight where the captain serenaded us all with a burst of "Unchained Melody" as we were taxiing around KL airport finding our gate. What a welcome back!

I'll write about our last few days in Kuala Lumpur in my next entry.