Perdana Resort Kota Bharu

... probably harmless I hadn't even contemplated that such things happened in paradise untill I saw the writing on the wall last ight of course!! Hmmm, I stroll back to our lovely new pad to find a dead and very squashed frog had been pushed under the door!! Do these guys ever give up?! Sick of this ridiculous nonsense we decide to leave and go to suss out new accommodation...once we find a room we pack up our **** and leave...no payment, no ...

... departed the boat on. Sweat pouring off my face, I sit down, order a coke and a fried egg sandwich and look at Carolyn!! Ha ha think we are going to have to tread the ant bearing path back to our arrival point!!

Back on Long Beach we head to Panorama as we have heard that is the place to be and an hour later we are still waiting for our room to be ready...we head off for a little mooch on the beach, find somewhere else and swiftly collect our bags and depart!!

Besut, Terengganu, Malaysia followingmyfeet

... for. I set up my hammock and tied my bags to it so I would be awoken if anyone tried to steal my stuff. We were so exhausted but everyone was drinking on the porch where we'd set up our hammocks so I decided to join them for a drink. I made myself a rum and coke then talked to girls from Switzerland, Germany, France, and Russia. After one drink, I was too tired to go on so I said goodnight to everyone and went to lay down on my hammock.



This island is very ...

... side and offered us a ride into town... dropping us off at the night market in town. Perfect. Night markets crop up in pretty much every Asian town or city..... and are basically a bunch of individual food vendors making fresh food... some delicious, some interesting, some unidentifiable! We usually stick to noodle dishes when we eat at one... seems a safe choice and is always very Delicious. This time around we did indeed have a delicious noodle dish from once vendor, spring rolls from ...

... the boat we met Matt and Kirsty who have followed virtually the same route as us since last December. They are heading for Australia where they hope to get work to fund the rest of their trip. In the evening we had a beer with Elaine who happens to be staying in the next hut. We watched as she arrived and I commented to Dave that she looked how I had felt the day before, when we arrived. I smiled to myself when the first question she asked was 'is there anywhere I ...

... us the sea is a bit rough and put the thing on full throttle - we spend the majority of the next 25 minutes in the air just touching down onto the water the odd time, it was crazy stuff and not for the faint hearted or those with bad backs! If I hadn't got the safety of a life jacket on me I'd have been a nervous wreck. We had decided to stay on Perhentian Kecil (small island) on Long Beach. We had a guesthouse in mind but when we got there the room ...

... What's Not: my new waterproof camera getting water inside, ants eating the turtle eggs, the mama turtle trying to bury herself, the atmosphere on long beach, price collusion for washing/kilo. Traveller's Tip: having a mosquito net to stop the rat **** falling on your face at night does not make the place higenic, despite what the owner claims.

... we'd head straight for the Perhentian Islands - after all, its not like we'd been spending much time on beaches lately..... We'd got the train all of the way to the Thai border and from the Malay side we got a 2hr taxi ride to the port - Kota Bahru. We got our tickets and had about an hour to kill before the boat left for the islands. We decided to stay on 'Long Beach' on 'Small Island'.

... and went off searching for them. We found 8 in total and they were much more relaxed with just the two of us in the water. We both swam along side them and i even got to touch one on the back when it was feeding (only the once as i didn't want to stress it and it carried on feeding so was fine). It was truly amazing and they are such graceful creatures in the water. One of them was bigger than a car bonnet. The snorkeling in edge of the ...

... again, although the fact that he had been travelling for 36hrs and did not smell the sweetest was not ideal. Within 30 seconds of arriving on the island I has already decided that this place beat any of the Thai islands by a country mile. I have never seen water like it. Malaysia in general seems to be far more relaxed and friendly. The locals not quite so money grabbing. I fear that I am beginning to get a little dull so I will not write much ...