Redang Bay Resort Kuala Terengganu

... with bacon sandwiches and a decent cup of tea every morning in Sydney – sooooooooooooooooooooo good! Paul still misses Stones & Bombardier although he has tried an impressive 66 varieties of beer since we started the trip!

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A mind boggling 14043 (or 50.27 Gb) or a photo every 21 minutes, night and day – ...

Another fairly brief stop over. Kuala Terrengganu has a lovely beach and seems a nice town. In fact, the beach starts here and runs pretty much unbroken all the way down the East coast for a couple of hundred miles! We will be following it from here down to Mersing in the south. We treated ourselves to a ...

... to use the snorkeling equipment & depart for snorkeling activities. 4.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Afternoon tea. 5.30 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. Leisure: Beach volleyball, mahjung ...

... Martin turned up a few days after me too so it was cool hanging out again. Not sure when we'll see each other again after we go our separate ways this time. Oh, & dad...........you can stop worrying now........I am alive & well. Internet & phones are ridiculously expensive so I haven't been contacting anyone & there are no banks on the islands so enough money has to be taken out beforehand. Also went across to the other side of the island - Coral Bay which ...

... with rope! It was brilliant and we saw monkeys, tree shrews, wild boar and a monitor lizard! It was such a cool way to see the jungle and avoid the snakes! Our next port of call was the Perhentian Islands! We decided to take the "Jungle Train" to Kota Bharu. This is supposed to be some amazing journey with all sorts of crazy stuff going on. In fact, it turned out to be the most average train journey ever! So, not a great deal ...

... a deep shade of mahogany) and quailfy as an underwater photographer which is just great! Our room was more like a cell rather than anything else, but we were only in there to sleep. it was too hot to be inside! Back on the mainland now on my way back to Singapore. hopefully this one will be a little less drama filled, but at least this is direct from Khota Baru and at only 60-ringit (8pounds) it's a bit of a bargin!

... would have been one of 3 or 4 with the other outfit. Nate showed great enthusiasm for both the course and his instructor, and managed to grasp the skills and written examinations without too much difficulty. He exhibits absolutely no fear underwater, which I am a little concerned about. A little fear is healthy, I think. His instructor, Tristan Webb made a video of Nate's last training dive that is pretty fantastic. It can be found HERE. The diving during the week ...

... fascinante et j'ai du revoir mes prejuges. C'est un pays musulman et comme bien d'autres pays en Asie, l'homosexualite est illegale et un groupe ethnique est favorise par le gouvernement, les musulmans malais. Mais il y a une liberte plus grande que je n'aurais pu l'imaginer ... les filles asiatiques se promenent en mini-jupes et en paix, tandis que les filles musulmanes portent le voile, en laissant leur visage visible, avec les jeans taille basse et les ...