Day 15 - Langkawi

Wow, I think we all have to agree that Langkawi is like a paradise island. Today after being woken up at absurd o'clock in the morning we headed to the cafe to stock up on stodge to last us until lunchtime. We had croissants, pancakes, fruit and pastrys. Then we walked the short distance to the lobby where we waited for the shuttle bus to where we would catch the boat trip we had planned for today.

After a longer then expected ride to the dock side we, along with hundereds of other tourists waited eagerly on the small jetty. Finally the boats started to arrive and collect people to take away.  Luckily out of our group me and George got to sit right at the front with a parent each behind us. To our surprise our boat, which was one of the biggest and had the most people on, was one of the fastest! We set off for our first destination with the wind in our hair.

We stopped at an island that appeared deserted and only jungle. We gingerly made our way up the steps and onto the jetty where we where confronted by some monkeys, we hurriedly followed the group up some steps until we reached the fresh water lake. The lake was shrouded by mountains on most of its sides and gave it a very magical feel. That was until the millions of other tourists came down and started to crowd on to the platforms. We hastily exited only to find MORE monkeys then before, one nearly got hold of my anklet!

On the way to the second island we stopped between the two massive, jungle covered rocks to observe eagles hunting. It was amazing! The driver threw chicken skin into the water and they all came swarming down towards the sea. This happened just off of the second island. When we got to the island we saw lots of people turning left at the end of the jetty, towards one bit of the beach so instead of following the crowd we were trend setters and turned right. The beach was stunning. The sand was really pale and the sea had that sort of graded blue where it is light near the shore and it gets darker and darker. It turned out we were so trendy that everyone else who got off the boats wanted to come and sit next to us, much to our pleasure.

After an hour of splishing and splashing in the warm sea we had to head back to the boat, the ride back was much shorter then expected and so was the bus to the hotel. For the rest of the day we relaxed next to the pool. Then suddenly out of nowhere a whole troop of dusky leaf monkeys ran out of the jungle and up the palm tree that was right infront of our sun loungers. We instantly leapt up and started videoing. It was very exciting.

We then headed back to the chalets where mum started the washing and we watched telly. I got a bit bored of telly so I decided I would go and get the iPad to start my blog. As i was stepping out of Mum and Dad's chalet I spotted a great big lizard just crawling through the undergrowth!

Now we are back at the Chalet after gorging ourselves on food, and yes, mum did have her rendang, just unwinding before bed so we can be up for the cable cars tomorrow. Apparently they are the steepest cable cars in the world so wish us luck!

Bye Bye,

Lily