Perhentian Islands, Malaysia Travel Blogs

Perhentian Paradise
Oct 18, 2005 (5 photos)

... ' and sure enough we see lots of little clown fish gliding through the protective arms of sea annenemone. The snorkelling on the Perhentian Islands certainly is better than we expected. I'm looking forward to a lazy day on Long Beach, but Rachel has ...

Perhentian Paradise
Jul 25, 2005 (6 photos)

The Perhentian Islands, to be fair, are a little bit fabulous. They are made up of 2 text book paradise islands. We stayed on the bigger one, Besar. The smaller one is called Kecil. You can only get here from the mainland by boat, which leaves from a ...

Sensational snorkelling and strange animals!
Jul 30, 2003 (2 photos)

We caught a fast boat to Perhentian Kecil, the smaller of the two main Perhentian Islands, where we were faced with a choice of beaches to be dropped at - we chose D'Lagoon, a guesthouse all by itself at the northern end of the island, rignt on the water ...

Perhentian Islands Part 2
Aug 5, 2004

... I masked (snorkelling without fins or snorkel). Over a meal we decide to head to Singapore tomorrow. The waters around the Perhentian Islands are world class, but on our budget, at this time of year, the accommodation is woeful, so having done what we ...

Perhentian Islands - Paradise?
May 1, 2006 (3 photos)

Well we went to the the Perhentian Islands under high recommendation and were expecting some kind of paradise - We had our ups and downs. We arrived in Kuala Besut just after 7am in the morning on 1st May after our overnight bus journey. Now the bus was ...

More sandy white beaches....
Mar 19, 2005 (3 photos)

Got to Kota Bharu and found somewhere to stay. Lukas, a swedish guy I met on the bus was planning to go to the Perhentian Islands the following day so we decided to share a taxi, only he wanted to go early to make sure we could get somewhere to stay. ...

Finding Nemo....Part Two
Sep 16, 2004 (3 photos)

... ! I passed my three month mark on the 15th - 40 days in Thailand, 12 Laos, 22 Vietnam, 10 Cambodia, and 9 in Malaysia(so far). The verdict? THE BEST THING YOU COULD EVER DO IN YOUR LIFE!! Tuesday 21st September 2004 As no diving today, could ...

Throw another shark on the barbie
Aug 11, 2005 (2 photos)

Island Life
Sep 10, 2003 (5 photos)

... the train and got a taxi with some Germans for the remainder of the trip to Kota Bharu (the transit center to Perhentian Islands.) After a violently rough hour boat ride, we arrived at Pulau Besar of the Perhentian Islands. There are two islands, one ...

Monsoon Sunbathing
Oct 22, 2005 (8 photos)

Finally we had made it to the Perhentian islands having left Thailand earlier than planned to beat the monsoon rains that were heading this way. Unfortunately we had believed the Lying Planets estimate of mid Nov for when the islands normally closed down, ...

Keep Refrigerated
Aug 9, 2005 (4 photos)

Give us a Snorkel
Aug 12, 2005 (4 photos)

Relocation relocation relocation
Aug 10, 2005 (4 photos)

Best snorkelling ever on this island paradise
Apr 10, 2008 (17 photos)

... was in Kuala Lumpur on a training course and had arranged to fly to Kota Bharu and meet us, before we all headed to the Perhentian Islands together. The bus journey was a royal pain in the arse. The 'luxury' 27 seater bus we were promised turned out to ...

Kota Bahru and the Perhentian Islands
Nov 11, 2005

... , his was having withdrawl hadn't had one for a day. 11/11 Arrived Kota Basut jetty, only slow boats going to Perhentian Islands today, took 1 1/2 hours, got there at lunchtime, Perhentian Kecil, Long Beach. Oh my god it was stunning, white sand ...

Day 5 - 14 Penang and the Perhentians
Oct 6, 2008

Apologies, family and friends for the lack of contact. It hasnt been that long really, 9 days? I have actually lost count, I have no idea what day it is today, its great. I will start where I left off, which was just before I caught the bus to Penang ...

Perhentian Islands, Malaysia
Dec 27, 2005 (8 photos)

The best place we found for snorkelling and that was about it. We were stranded on an island for nearly a week with very little to do apart from sunbathe! Its a hard life i know

Pulau Perhentians
Jul 20, 2001

I have been visiting these islands since I was tiny and have watched them evolve and sadly succumb to the effects of tourism. I hoped to show Andy a little of the amazing sights that have stayed in my memories; crabs fighting on the beach, baby sharks in ...

Zoe and Jem on the beautiful island of Kecil
Jun 1, 2006 (6 photos)

... was cheaper and me and zo were the grumpiest girls ever that night (or so the boys told us later!). Finally arrived on pulau perhentian kecil the day after and it was worth the wait, it was really beautiful. Really white sand and clear water, what a ...

The Perhentian Islands - Close to paradise!
Jun 23, 2006 (13 photos)

... another 12 hour night bus from Penang to Quala Besut where we got a connection boat to the smaller Perhentian Island 'Kecil', we were warned that the buses in Malaysia were freezing and this was no word of a lie! After a couple of hours shivering to death ...

Islanders!
Jul 3, 2006 (8 photos)

... have navigation skills so you can trust me in the bush or underwater with a compass - THATs IF YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH! The Perhentian has two wrecks: Vietnamese Wreck: sank in 1976 and lies 24m deep. The current was pretty strong the second time we went ...

Paradise in the Perhentian
Aug 16, 2007

snorkeling and diving in the Perhentian

Perhentian Islands
May 22, 2008 (20 photos)

... got an early taxi from Kota Bharu to the ferry port. We then caught the fast boat over to the smaller of the two Perhentian Islands, called Kecil. We met a real character on board the ferry called Bill who reccomended we stay in D'Lagoon (The quieter side ...

Paradise Found
Mar 14, 2005

... a hellish one-and-a-half-hour boat ride through the tail-end-of-the-monsoon-season waves, we finally arrived in paradise: the Perhentian Islands (not before Luc puked, Ali wailed, Jess begged the captain to turn back, and Kohl located the life vests). ...

Off in search of some sun
Apr 24, 2007

Today we flew from KL to Kota Bharu where we got a boat out to Perhentian Kecil, the smallest of the Perhentian Islands and pure paradise! We arrived early afternoon so had plenty of time to hit the beach and start tanning. We had a little wooden chalet ...

Greetings from The Perhentian Islands
Feb 24, 2004 (1 photos)

... I should apologise at this point to all those who asked me to ensure dad didn't get too tanned - I failed!! He's going to be bringing back a lovely colour with him!! Thats it from the Perhentian Islands............next update from Singapore. xxx

PADI Open Water Dive Course
Mar 3, 2007

... !! yeah! Highly recomend for everyone to try Scuba diving and get their Open Water certificate. If you aer in Asia, do it in Malaysia. We met tons of peolpe here who dove in Phuket and otehr palces in Thailand and tehy all say this is better. There are ...

The pretty Perhentians
Feb 27, 2007

We arrived on the Perhentian Island (after a roller coaster ride on a speedboat) of Kecil and set off down the beach in search of a hut to rent. We tried a few places but despite the very cheap price tags (about £1 a night) the state of some places was too ...

And back to the islands! / Y de vuelta a las islas
Aug 22, 2007 (13 photos)

...so I spent a week with Sara in the Perhentian Islands, just sunbathing, snorkeling, and a bit of diving, and then I met Cedric, dive instructor, who over a bucket of monkey juice (;-)) offered me a Rescue + Dive Master course vs. work at the diving base ...

Other Island Activities
Mar 7, 2007

When we were not diving or playing v-ball we certainly were not bored. We spent a bit of time just hanging around the dive shop, talking about diving and stuff in general with the instructors and owner. We did a fair bit of reading on the beach. I ...