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Travel Blogs from Perhentian Besar, Malaysia
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Big Island Family Style
This is a top pick! ... from the kitchen, rubbed it over their bites and moved them to another part of the beach. As crazy as it seems, I went to Malaysia and actually met some of the locals. We went out one day to the fishing village on the small island and I found some ...
Diving in Perhentian Islands
... but it did not deter our excitement. We managed to do three dives. We stayed at Mama's place which is actually located in Perhentian Besar but we spent most of the time at Perhentian Kecil's Long Beach because we dove with Turtle Bay Divers. The beach ...
Stuck in Malaysia?
Well - typically if things seem too good to be true, they usually are. This has proven true. After my last update, I gave my notice at work (they asked me to stay through the end of August) and started preparing for my journey back to the ...
Singapore - Pulau Perhentian
... net zoals bij jullie de laatste dagen weer tevoorschijn... De volgende dag zijn we verder gegaan in de richting van de Perhentian Islands, een groep eilanden voor de noord-oostkust van het land, bekend om haar schitterende stranden en de enorm levendige ...
Tuna Bay
... to say - more bars, more backpackers, and a much younger crowd. But I will have exhausted all that there is to do on Perhentian Besar by end of tomorrow - paradise is a little lonely by yourself. Some of the people in my tour group from Taman Negara ...
Sad to leave this island, you know
... in toiletries - products to prove in glove compartment) and allowed me some insights in what it requires to be a good Muslim in Malaysia. A hair raising (literally, it was a rather nice to feel some wind actually) speed boat ride took me to what I ...
Vietnamese city to Malaysian island in 1 day
... I now find myself writing to you while sitting at the office window which looks out over the crystal clear, blue waters surrounding the Perhentian Islands. But let me back up. Eric and I left Hoi An after a short, but sweet, two days ...
Advanced Island
... on the bus for two hours solid between 3 am and 5 am, simple, small things that bring you together. Reach the Perhentian Island on fast speedboat, the water is ridiculously crystal clear and has the temperature of bath water. There are heaps of funky ...
Following the morning sun
We have succesfully made our way to the incredibly hot Perhentian islands. We travelled overnight and got caught up in a massive thunderstorm. The buses had to stop for a bit, but I'm not sure why. I don't think I've ever seen a storm like it. The entire ...
snorkel again??? sólo si hay tortugas y tiburones!
By abeja: Tomamos un taxi que nos llevó hasta Kuala Besut, lugar donde se encuentra el embarcadero hacia las Perhertians…. Por qué íbamos hacia allá???... resulta que nos habían hablado mucho sobre esas islas de la costa este, lugar donde en ...
How Besar
Did my third and fourth dives in Perhentians, we moved to Besar, the big island which was beautiful after we couldn't get a train to Singapore or Kuala Lumpar cause they were packed due to the May bank holiday. The dive was good, I was doing another ...
Turtles and Diving on Tropical Paradise
... as the boat vertically hit waves. It was a rough ride and when we hopped past kecil and arrived at our beach on Perhentian Besar everyones hair stayed thrown back. From first site, the beach looked beautiful but i couldn't see any dive shop, restaurant ...
La folle aventure du blond et de la frisee
Pulau Perhentian Besar, c'est vraiment reggae comme place. En fait c'est tellement relax qu'on a toujours envie de faire un somme. Les deux premiers jours on les a passes a dormir et nager, et manger en regardant les jeux olympiques. Aussi on est devenus ...
Island time
This is a top pick! ... an arrival transfer through the hotel to take us from Kota Bharu airport to Kuala Besut jetty to catch our ferry to the Perhentian Islands. However, after collecting our bags and entering the arrivals hall there was no board with our names on as we had ...
HOPE- Help our Penyu
... (like raking the enclosures and cleaning the cages). After a bumpy boat ride from the jetty to the beach resort (Bubbles) on Pulau Perhentian Besar we all jumped off the boat on to a picture postcard beach, dumped our stuff in our rooms and sat down to ...
T.V Star!
Friday 17th September Occasionally, a female turtle will wander into the resort itself to lay a nest instead of laying on the beach and tonight the turtles from one of these nests decided it was time to hatch, so we found ourselves running around the ...
Paradise beach
... in some snorkeling gear as for the next while we'll probably spend as much time in the water as out of it! Perhentian Besar is a pretty special wee place with all accommodation and restaurants in hut style along the beach and it's ...
Chasing turtles...
We got chatting to a lad who worked at a dive centre (he was on a booze run for them all to the mainland due to the lack of it on the islands) on this slightly larger island who said to give it a try. It's allegedly more expensive so ...
Beach und Diving@Perhentian Islands
... lang im Minivan verbringen, die Überfahrt auf die zunächst von uns anvisierte größere der beiden Inseln, Pulau Perhentian Besar, entschädigte jedoch für Einiges... Nach stundenlangem Sitzen im Minivan wurde man dort erstmal richtig ...
Enfin en vacances!
Apres notre dur voyage de trois semaines au Vietnam, nous voici enfin en vacances en Malaisie. Ici c'est vraiment l'autre bout du monde. Apres nous etre rendus en avion dans la ville de Kota Bharu qui ressemble a un melange du Pakistan et du boulevard ...
Can never relax too much!
20th - 22nd I had to catch the 9.30am ferry across to the Perhentian islands so I got a transfer from my hostel in Kota Bharu to the ferry port which was an hour away. Most people uses Kota Bharu as a stop off before going to the islands, so the mini ...
Moving on to the next level
PADI Instructor course. A life kneeling in the sand underwater awaits!! ...
Video of Green Turtle at Bubbles
Christiane came to Bubbles on a nature discovery package and managed to take these videos whilst she was here. I also managed to see the turtle on two other occasions but don't have an underwater video camera. The video gives a taster of what it was ...
Perhentians
I have spent the past 8 days on Pulau Perhentian Besar. Before coming to Malaysia, I had always listened to people talking about diving thinking to myself that it was something that I would never wish to do. I love swimming, but even so, I have always ...
More wildlife
I love snorkeling here, but every time I go out to the house reef I find myself face to face with a trigger fish! For those of you who don't know what a trigger fish is – they are not just really mean looking (see photo) but the females are also ...
Back to school
There was I thinking that I had left teaching behind me for 10 months, but no, despite there being other volunteers, it was me who (I suppose understandably) they looked to to plan the lesson for the last Turtles Need Trees Club. I actually found it ...
Blue Skies, Sandy Beaches, Clear warm sea...
"Volunteers are not paid not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless." ~ Unknown Dan has ramped up the level of activities. Claire and I are on the 0300-0800 watch again and another beach has appeared on the 'watch' list. ...
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