Grand Riverview Hotel Kota Bharu

... places had started closing down and the only one open was really expensive. So we hopped in to a water taxi (even smaller boat) with our rucksacks and set off for the small island only ten mins away.<br><br>We stayed at a hostel call Matahari Chalets in what they call a long room, basically lots of terrace bungalows. It was ok but riddled with termites.....not sure it will still be there in a couple of years :0).<br ...

... br><br>We carry on drinking and life goes on...until some Irish guy rocks up and gate crashes the party!! Oh dear god this guy is a total ****...we decide to move on until Jack pipes up...'she well fancies you mate' and just like that the love affair is over!!<br><br>We head back to our room and after spending a fair bit of time convincing the guys we want to spend our last night alone...we hop into our double bed and...<br><br>Zzzzzzzzzz<br>

... bara skella teim a sig adur en madur for a klosettid eda sturtuna (pinu ofugsnuid J)<br><br>Vid skelltum okkur svo i bikini og uta stond, ah tetta var alveg eins og postkort, hreinn hvitur sandur, stor palmatre sem teygdu sig ut a sjoinn. Tetta var I fyrsta sinn sem eg hef badad mig i heitum og algjorlega taerum sjo, geggjad!!<br><br>Nutum tess ad gera ekki neitt og sofna a strondinni og milli tess sem vid vorum uti i HEITA sjonum. Ljufa ljufa lif. <br><br>Kynntumst svo 4 krokkum ...

Today, Edgardo left for Singapore to start his journey back home to Peru. I decided to stay on the island a bit longer. After he left I dove at a cool site called "temple of the sea". It was really cool but I ran out of air a lot earlier than the others because I had wasted a lot of energy on taking pictures. I had to come up about twenty minutes before the other divers. Later, that day I dove "sugar wreck" again but the ...

... the vendor across the street from the hotel and then went to the local theater noticing Star Trek was playing. Got our tickets (cheap) and some popcorn (even cheaper) and headed in. Most english movies in Thailand are subtitled in thai.... but this one was dubbed. I guess we probably should have asked that when we bought this tickets (not that they would have understood). Oh well... we watched a few minutes before heading back out of the theater bashfully. The next morning we got on a ...

... the main land dock of Kuala Besut (we had to catch a taxi boat to the island boat!) Once we got the the mainland we shared a taxi to the town of Kota Bharu - (but again my Russian friends had done their research) when we got to the dock the taxi driver's wanted 70 Riggit, but we walked towards the bus station, the next taxi driver wanted 60 Riggit, but the Russian said to ...

... before, but it was quite an experience - basically he would mutter a lot whilst stabbing at the table with a very sharp knife, and then he'd tap a barbie doll with a metal rod whilst continuously burping (which I can only assume is letting the bad spirits out!) Feeling a tad uncomfortable, I downed to coffee and left. In the main street I couldn't find the internet and so stopped and asked in a phone shop. As the young assistant didn't know how ...

... dead coral and had to crawl back to shore with our tails between our legs! The next day we went on a proper snorkelling tour organised by Willie and were much more successful. This was possibly the best day of our travels so far! The boatman took us to several different spots, the first of these being 'Shark Point'- they don't ease you in gently! We were told that lurking beneath our boat were black-tip reef sharks that wouldn't eat us as ...

Turen inn fra Perhentian gikk vel på sett og vis bedre enn turen ut...ingen spruting og ingen overhormonell kaptein som skulle få utløp for ett eller annet...så vi var tørre og fine da vi steg i land :-) Fra kaien er det ca 1 time med taxi inn til byen. Betalte 40 RN for turen, og kom helt frem til "hotellet" vi var blitt anbefalt av en dame som vi traff på båten. Det kuleste i denne byen var et svært ...

... to leave, the place we stayed at had 3 little kittens too which entertained us whilst we were back at our resort. Finally can you believe all that cost us only 55 pounds each!!! Anyway so we are now back at the airport ready to head on back to KL for a night before we head on up to Phuket. Not sure what the plan is from there, will see what we think of the place and decide than. Hope everyone is well, 3 weeks and I'm home!!!! laterz Jason xx