Hotel Grand Continental Kuala Terengganu

... one available and it had just been vacated and was currently being cleaned. "It's very basic" he said. At RM 33 it was the cheapest on the island "that'll be fine, I'm not fussy all I need is a bed" I said, seeming all 'die hardy traveller'. Then I saw the room. Oh Lordy, basic he says, the cave in the jungle was more bloody comfortable than this. I didn't even undress for bed, fully prepared to leap up in the middle of ...

... only have 165 days left to see all the things that we want to see.<br><br>200 days in and we thought it would be good to reflect on the trip so far&#8230;<br><br>5 favourite places&#8230;<br>Me Paul<br>1) Galapagos Island - Ecuador 1) Galapagos Island - Ecuador<br>2) Uyuni Salt Plains - Bolivia 2) Easter Island - Chile<br>3) Easter Island &#8211; Chile 3 ...

... like,"and what was I supposed to do? Say shoo-shoo (while waving his hands), go away?". Brilliant!   The corals at Lang Tengah island were spectacular. Large fan-like corals, layer upon layer interspersed with colourful sponges, tubes, bagpipe-like corals and the fish... Wow, just thousands of them. If you stayed still for a minute and stretched out your hand, they would come close and nibble at your fingers. On one of my snorkelling trips ...

... Room Type Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed Thurs, Fri, Sat Public Holidays RM / Person ³ÉÈË ¶ùͯ ³ÉÈË ¶ùͯ ³ÉÈË ¶ùͯ 4ÈË·¿ 305.00 - 340.00 - &nbsp ; 400.00 - ¼Ó´² 250 ...

I forgot to mention that yesterday, we decided to get a fruit called "Salak" per my cousin Ray's request. Actually, he wants the seeds to this fruit as he would like to grow this plant back home. Anyhow, we get this weird looking fruit. Firstly, it smelled God-awful ...

... over130 million years old! To go there you first have to go to Jerantut, which is horrid! To make it worse, Jon fell into a 3ft drain between the road and the pavement - he got mad and shouted and threw stuff! It wasn't funny at the time, but is was afterwards because people kept coming up to us saying "Excuse me, no offence, but are you the guy that fell in the drain"? It was so funny, everyone knew, and people even asked ...

... if bowel-shuddering, we arrived at the small island. I think that perhaps we had been spoilt by the No Name Beach and it's utter isolation, so strangely, even though the first beach we stepped foot on (coral beach) was textbook tropical paradise, we were disappointed with the amount of development. That's not to say that it's a concrete eyesore or anything, but there are a whole bunch of resorts ...

... The Perhentians is supposed to have some of the best visibility around so we did a snorkel trip one day. Jo couldn't quite overcome her fear of sharks at the first site so I had to face a five foot black tip reef shark on my own, slightly worrying but exhilarating at the same time. We then went to see turtles - the visibility was appalling and we almost gave up, then one went underneath us and we gave chase for about thirty ...

... was more known to locals. But that was nice too, we were at most some 20 people in the resort, so there was well space for all of us on the beach. But what did we do, hmm.... Well as Lang Tengah and the near island of Redang have propably the best snorkling spots we spent quite some time in the water. And I have to admit the views were splendid. Daniel chased every day black tip sharks, for me it was enough to just look at them form a distance. There were some really big ...

I have just returned from 10 days in paradise, otherwise known as the Perheretian Kecil island in the north east of Malaysia. It was the most beautiful beach I have ever seen, white sand and crystal clear waters. Jules completed a diving course whilst I bought myself a lilo and spent most days floating around the bay marvelling at how somewhere so beautiful actually exists! I also went off on a few snorkeling ...