Chuan Full Hotel
Travel Blogs from Pangkor
Penang, Malaysia
... on, we drove for quite a while then had to get off, we had missed our rat hole, very easy to miss, nothing stood out about it, so we had to walk back to where it was , and it was quite a walk and it was warm, bordering on HOT, we found it, got booked in, 4 to a room, and it’s the pits, 3 bed, 1 mattress on the floor, no shower in the room, or toilet, they are down the corridor, the place is alive with rats, even though there are 3 cats laying about
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Pangkor island - polical-economical considerations
... our lives, because we're the same age and lived through the same events.
In the morning we walked along the internal road to reach a very nice beach, but access is restricted to customers of the exclusive resort.
We met a small fishing village close to a bay with boats resting on the sand because the sea water is a great distance.
We also saw a small desert airport and then the temple behind the beach of Coral Bay with ...
10 hammocks, 5 guitars, More beaches anyone?
Trying to make our way slowly to Kuala Lumpur, we made a quick stop to the island of Pangkor. This island is so small, and no where close to being busy, it's amazing. We were 2 of 4 foreigners on the boat ride over. On our incredibly beautiful beach (where the water has a green tinge due to limestone) the first day there were 3 other people on the entire beach, 5 including us. Today the ...
The Island Life
... I head back and tell the guy, ok, 12. He tells the scoffing guy to take me, and I follow him a second, then he stops and shakes his head. WTF is your deal buddy? I was told the locals here were so nice! The original guy looks at him with a WTF look, and says 'ok, come with me' and we take off. The island is small. 8 sq kms. The road follows the coast, winding around, up and down. In some spots, they just pave around a tree that limits the road to a lane and a quarter, no ...
Island Of The Hornbills
... beach and dipping ourselves in its inviting waters. The beach wasn’t crowded, those that were there were a mixture of foreign tourists and locals. Our enjoyment was only tempered by the mischievous monkeys who frequently wandered onto the beach, the noise from the boy racers doing wheelies along the nearby road and the cretinous boat pilots who brought their crafts too close to the shore and risked hitting carefree swimmers.
Some of the oddest sights ...