Perhentian Kecil
Travel Blogs from Perhentian Kecil, Malaysia
Bloke Walks Into A Bar
"Here's to alcohol; the cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems" -- Homer Simpson We spent three nights on Perhentian Kecil, staying in the cheapest place on the island. We arrived at the end of the High Season, and a lot of places ...
Pulau Perhentian Kecil - Could this be paradise?
You join us on our quest for the perfect beach resort and quite frankly, here it is. Thailand offered some brilliant places like Ko Tao but we never found the one. We stayed on Long Beach which is probably the busiest beach on the two islands but ...
Underwater photography part 1
... in close proximity. Pretty cool so sorry about the filesize (7.5mb). I'll have to refine my technique further in the rest of Malaysia and Thailand but as you can see from my first attempts, gear available today makes this is a relatively easy hobby to ...
Submerging myself on Long Beach
... back at home so maybe this will help prepare for the long hot months ahead. I'm now hanging in the Perhentian Islands on the north east coast of Malaysia - they're just below the Thai/Malaysian border on the eastern (Koh Samui) side. What's more, they're ...
The Perhentian Islands
... Belieeeve-able! We've just got back from one of the best days we've had so far - a full-days tour of the Perhentian Islands including a bumper batch of snorkelling around five magical locations, a superb bite to eat on an island paradise and a dip ...
Monsoon Sunbathing
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 ...
We are getting close to finding it!!!!
Day 216; Woke up and it was tipping it down and had some thunder and lightning, a bit of thunder that shook our little hut which was kinda cool, it didn't last long and seemed to pass as quickly as it had came, we went and got some breakfast which was ...
Fish, Fish, Fish....
... well poo you, freedom, that means we can pretty much go anywhere we want (it was a white women who has obviously come to Malaysia and set up a dive business, who now thinks they own the place along with all the other boats) The left side definitely was ...
4am start,train,taxi,boat & then no room...
... bit of money. Again trying to do something for tourists that the tourists don't want, but it is only the first time we have had this in Malaysia so not writing it off yet, the taxi ride was ok I think it took a bit longer as the driver decided to take a ...
Perhentian Islands - Welcome to Paradise
Having survived the torturous near 24 hour journey from Ko Samui our bags are loaded off the boat and placed upon the sand of Long Beach. We pay the ferryman 2RM each (under 1 quid), heave up our backpacks and proceed to walk across the beautiful ...
Finding perfection in the Perhentian Islands
... , and consist of two relatively small, undeveloped islands which have no roads and no electricity during daylight hours. Pulau Perhentian Kecil, the smaller of the two islands is becoming quite a popular destination for backpackers, so we thought that we ...
Pulau Perhentian
... goes further again. Pancakes and tea and smoothies for breakfast in this place cost about a quid. The island we chose is Perhentian Kecil (Small) as apposed to Besur (Big). Besur has more resort-like complexes and is generally more touristy, Kecil has no ...
Padi Perhentian
... ’t for the cool company at the dive shop and the diving I don’t think we would have stayed very long on Pulau Kecil but we filled our days with diving and after two more days of diving with Nash I had officially passed my PADI open water ...
The Monsoon cometh, and a small dose of fury
08:51 The monsoon has begun properly now, yesterday it rained very heavily most of the day and as I was completely knackered it wasnt a bad thing because I stayed inside and watched films, but I was stupidly tired all day. I had another early night and ...
Island Paradise Part II
... hour shared taxi ride, a 2 hour wait, and then a 40 minute boat ride to get to the islands! I arrived at Long Beach on Perhentian Kecil and was situated in the midst of the most beautiful ocean colors. The beach is in the shape of a crescent moon with ...
A monster monitor lizard!
Woke up to a gorgeous sunrise across the sea. It wasn't too bad sleeping with just a fan (not aircon) as it does cool down quite a lot over night. We went down to breakfast in our pyjamas which was toast and jam, not ever so nice but the ...
Giant sea turtles, sharks and stingrays
... yellow fish, it was incredible. By this time it was getting quite late so we stopped in Fisherman Village on Pulau Perhentian Besar, the big island, and ate delicious sweet and sour prawns and squid with rice. For the afternoon we went to the ...
Pulau Perhentian
... nbsp; where we caught a sunrise boat ride to the nearby Perhentian Islands. We stayed on the smaller of the two, Pulau Perhentian Kecil. This is where most of the budget-minded people stay, and although the beach was beautiful, we would not stay ...
Life's a Beach!
... in Penang it was definitely time for a bit of exercise, so we opted for swimming in the beautiful clear blue waters of Perhentian Kecil, a picture perfect island off the northeast Malaysian coast. By taking an overnight bus, we managed to be on the first ...
Iskanje Nemota
Danasnji dan se nama je snorklalo. Cel dan sva prezivela na ladji, v vodi ali pod vodo. Najprej so nas zapeljali na shark reef. En ocenas in v vodo. Barbari je bilo v zacetku malo nelagodno, potem pa je zaplavala za enim majhnim morskim psom in ga ni ...
Paying the price
... Besut to take the last ferry. We had done a little research and decided to stay on the smaller of the two Perhentian Islands (Perhentian Kecil)... it is advertised as having a lot more budget accommodation than the other island. The boat we took over was ...
Climbing, Clownfish & the Club
... and set off on a Monday morning, travelling by car, train, plane, taxi and boat I arrived at the beautiful Perhentian Islands following a tip from the excellent Weeza. The Perhentians set off the east coast of Malaysia are surrounded by incredible and ...
Beware of the Monkey Juice!
... saw our friend Sandro pass. We watched the sunset and played with some kittens. Unlike Thailand that has an overpopulation of dogs, Malaysia has cats. The sunset was partly hidden by some clouds, but a great view non the less. Luckily for us, Sandro ...
Beach Bums
... stretch of sand. I ordered the Shark and settled back for the two hour wait for our food, never expect anything in a hurry in Malaysia and you will not be disappointed. Steve spotted a lone female traveler who he invited to join us. She turned out to be ...
But roti can you?
We ate breakfast at Maya again, everyone is so nice here. Gareth had a mushroom and tomato omelette and Liz had a pineapple roti canai, a Malaysian folded flat bread with the fruit tucked inside, absolutely delicious. It came with a curry ...
Woah that was rough!
... to as well and hoped to god Qantas was going to pay the costs. Coral bay is the smaller of the 2 backpacking spots on Perhentian. The larger being Lond Beach on the east side, the boat usually drops people off on the famous long beach but due to the ...
More diving in the Perhentian
The second day, which was our last day unfortunately turned out to be a very nice day. The sun was bright and the water was so warm. The first dive was at Sugar Wreck and it was not the best dive I've ever done. The current was really really strong and ...
Welcome Back Party
... ich ja noch leicht verhindert bin: Telefon: 03621 26468 E-Mail: irual(at)gmx.de (meine Mom heisst uebrigens Conny) Malaysia ist uebrigens total toll! Haben wahnsinnig schoene Flecken gesehen! Und hab auch ganz viele Fotos gemacht, die ich dann alle ...
Den fedeste oplevelse på Perhentians!
... tre dage på den store ø Pulau, trængte vi til lidt luftforandring. Vi besluttede at tage en taxibåd til den lille Perhentian ø Kecil. Inden vi tog afsted, havde vi dog en af vores fedeste oplevelser indtil videre, som var en snorklingtur med tre ...
Malaysia
... a bit offput by a the previous bus journey that could have been done in three, I was dreading the next journey to the Perhentian Islands. However we were delighted to discover that there was a mini bus shuttle service directly instead of going by public ...

