We had a good flight to Kuala Lumpur, then on to Langkawi. We left Perth at 12.50am on the morning of Monday 5th May and arrived at the hotel around 10. We booked in, had brunch, then hired a car and went to the main town. The only hiccups were discovering in KL that we had no transfer details (fortunately the driver meeting us did), and it seemed to be that I wasn’t expected. He (the driver) only had a card up for Russell. At the hotel, only Russell had a room (actually he had two), but all that got fixed very quickly.
After booking in and brunch we hired a car and headed to the main town of Kuah for a bit of duty free shopping and a look around. On the way home, Russ stopped to let me drive and him navigate and bout 100ks later and 2 or three times past various attractions, we got home. Fortunately it’s a lovely easy place to drive and we got a good look at one corner of the island!
The View From Our Room
It’s an amazingly cheap place-our little car cost $21 a day and petrol about 70c a litre. Dinner at an Indian restaurant last night cost us $25-we had 2 beers, 2 cokes, large rice, 2 garlic roti, chickpea curry, lamb curry and chilli and garlic chicken. It was spectacularly good too.
I read previously on the internet to avoid breakfast in the hotel and go across the road to a little place called Cactus. This morning, I had a full English breakfast (bigger and better than in England), Russ had an omelette filled with spicy beef and tomato and a fruit platter, we had two coffees and a big fresh OJ and it cost us $10 all up. There are lots of Muslims working in the shops and restaurants, so nothing in the way of pork or pork products, but you can get beef and turkey bacon, turkey and chicken ham.
The pool here is huge and lovely (with a swim up bar and restaurant), we are right on a very pretty beach (with a bar and restaurant) and the island is easy to get around. There’s not much shopping apart from duty free stuff, but there are no beggars, no hawkers and no one trying to drag you into their shop which makes it all very relaxing and very different from Bali.
Part of the Gorgeous Pool
It’s the start of the rainy season now, so the rain comes in the morning and late arvo which means we are better off sightseeing and driving in the middle times. I just drove home in a tropical downpour which was not too bad though as everyone slows down and is very cautious.
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