Renaissance Kota Bharu

... set off from the port on Monday heading for the big island on a recommendation from our previous hostel owner. The journey was good fun as the ferry was a speed boat that whizzed across the sea to the island. I was a bit worried about getting in the boat at first as it looked really small and I have rubbish balance when it comes to boats. <br>We got to the big Island and got dropped off at the jetty, however most of ...

... No sooner had I said to Carolyn he looked like he could murder someone...there is an almighty crash, and another and another!! Looking up we see the crazed fellow with a massive piece of wood next to the Shisha store...next thing we know the shisha pipes (or at least 2 of them) are no more!! What the ****?! This is insane?! If something massive kicked off here then who the hell would know about it?! There are no roads, no shops, nothing ...

Hildur skrifar:<br><br>Vid Kristin komum til paradisar eyjarinnar Perhentian sidasta manudag (7.sep). Lentum i eyjunni beint i heitan sjo og hvitan sand, umm. <br><br>Roltum af stad a tanum i sandinum og fundum okkur aedislegan gististad, A laga kofi med hengirum fyrir framan. Tetta var i raun bara eitt herbergi fullt af rumi med moskotineti yfir. Klosettin og sturtan voru svo sameiginleg fyrir utan. Magnadur stadur tar sem madur turfti ekki ad vera i skom til ad fara a strondina eda ...

... was phenomenal! We got back and ate some lunch then we went on another dive to "temple of the sea". It was a lot of fun but I ran out of air before the other divers again. I need to quit bringing my camera with me - it wastes my air. That night I hung out with Dutch girls and an Australian guy but we all went to bed pretty early.<br>

... t get sick (which involved a bit of charades by Luc acting out the act of vomiting). Too funny. Once in Hat Yai... we didn't necessarily want to stick around there either as again.... not so safe but didn't really have a plan. Lucky for us the minivan dropped us of at a bus station so we figured this must be a sign that we should carry on. We hopped on a bus to Trang... a bigger bus this time and once there checked into the same cheap hotel we stayed in last time. Had some cheap noodles ...

After 10 fantastic days on my desert island I had to leave to make the long journey to Singapore. I happened to meet a Russian couple who were also planning to catch a train on the same day as me, so I joined them (they were very prepared, they had maps etc, - all I had was a rough idea of how to pronounce the station name). We set off early - catching the 8am island boat ...

... then took me through a shortcut, round the back of the house and through his brothers little shack, where Yan Eng insisted on stopping and making mesome fresh, local coffee! He gave me a few yummy Malaysian snacks to eat and then had to hurry back to the guesthouse to meet his niece, leaving me sat there in this shack, drinking coffee and observing his brother (and a few others) hard at work as a witchdoctor! I hadn't seen a witchdoctor at ...

... girl who planned to only stay a few days, but one month later is still there - its easy to see how that could happen! Our days were spent chilling on the beach and snorkelling, or attempting to! On the first day, confident due to our pretty limited experience in Borneo, we hired snorkels and set off by ourselves into the sea, only to get completely stranded on the coral - the sea was way too shallow - we ended up getting cut to ribbons on ...

... of it as it was closing ) made them both try some jack fruit, which sadly was a bad one so they weren't impressed, and comically made them try durian, which corrin promptly spat straight out into the bin. Fair play to Matt, he actually swallowed some of the devil fruit. Then we walked around the night market before sleeping. Next morning we got our taxi and boat to the Perhentian islands, where we agreed upon staying on Pulau Besar (big island)

... and the many bays was great too, i also manged to see (and chase some) 11 black tipped reef sharks along with countless other varieties of fish, many over 20kg! Oh and whilst on wild life the island had a large population of monitor lizards too which are massive. Nearly as big as the dragons. I saw one that was from nose to tip of tail between 2 and 3 metres and must have weighed nearling as much as me!!! We had such a great time it was ...