Langkawi

Wednesday we managed to get out of bed reasonably early and meet with the tour rep. We booked a mangrove/nature tour with lunch afterwards for Friday and confirmed our flights to KL.

It was raining (but not too heavily) when he left and we drove down to Breakfast Bar to give it a try. It was cheap-25RM for both of us for cooked breakfasts and coffees and a juice for me, but not a patch on Cactus across the road from our hotel.

After breakfast, we headed to Kuah and Langkawi’s biggest shopping centre “Billion” but as we got closer and the rain stopped we decided to go for a drive to the top of the highest mountain instead. On the way we stopped of at a tropical fruit farm. We’d forgotten we had no Ringit, but the manager kindly took a $50 au off us and gave us change. The tour cost 10 RM pp and was great. With only the two of us, we stopped and took photos and tasted so much fruit I nearly exploded. I especially loved the dragon fruit and jack fruit and still think star fruit is crap!


On to the top of the mountain. We drove up a narrow, steep windy road through quite thick for, and then came out as the cloud started to burn off to some amazing views of the archipelago of 99 islands. We passed lots of monkeys on the way that fled if we slowed the car (the sort of monkeys I can cope with).

At the Top


We came back down the hill and made our way to Kuah and Billion where we did some shopping-trainers for me, fishing reel and line for Russ baby stuff for Fiona and Marcus’s baby and for Kobie. This is an amazingly cheap place to shop, so it’s lots of fun.

Closer to home we stopped to pick the nights restaurant (Chinese seafood), change some money and book another small tour out around the islands in the morning. We spent an hour in the pool, came home for a glass of wine, then headed out to dinner at Chiew.

It was good-I had prawns with a sort of dried, shredded sweet and salty egg topping with curry leaves through it, Russ had spicy mussels with rice. Then we had garlic asparagus and black pepper chicken and another serve of rice. All of that and 2 beers and 2 cokes cost us 71 MR.