Langkawai

Trip Start Apr 02, 2008
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Friday, March 13, 2009

There were only eight people on the firefly flight from Penang to Langkawai - that's including the air hostesses - one looked like she was going to vomit taking off and landing. Grechy booked a Hotel 'close' to the airport. When he asked on arrival if we could get a taxi there, the lady at information told us we could walk. Fair enough. So, we set off from the door of the airport, turned left, walked about 100 metres to a footbridge which brought us into the hotel. So weird! We became the equivalent Tom Hanks in Terminal - eating, checking mails, buying coffee and chocolate there.
There was practically no other guests staying in the hotel. If Michael said 'how do they make money?' once, he said it forty times. We had the pool to ourselves everyday, creating lots of new games with the complimentary tubes/donuts. Great fun!
Hired a car (normally 100RM a day) but Mick talked the dodgy rental guy down to 50RM. Think he may have given us his own car in the end!
Did a tour of the Island. The main town Kuah is nothing to write home about. We visited a park where 'history was made' with the first coconut climbing competition. Michael had a go.
There's a big eagle in..Eagle Square..(wow!) as Langkawai is famous for eagles and named after them. Didn't hang around Kuah long.
We went onto Galeria Perdana where the former Prime Minister has all the gifts he received in the job on display. It was quite interesting. Australia gave him a plate, Ireland a Waterford Crystal bowl.
We headed toward the seven wells which is a waterfall with seven pools. You can slide from one to the other. An Indian guy took a fancy to Ailbhe at the top - which Grechy thought was hilarious. It's quite a steep climb to the wells so it was nice to cool down in the water.
There are lots of monkeys on the Island. We had plenty of encounters. They ran after the car, climbed on the car, another one followed Grechy because he was carrying a Sprite bottle (which was filled with water and of little interest to the monkey once it discovered the lack of lemonade), we witnessed another one put a slice of sponge cake into his mouth whole which was fairly impressive!
Did a boat hopping tour. Cut out the middle man and got it for 40RM as it wasn't worth the advertised price of 65RM. Visited Dayang Bunting (Lake of the Pregnant Maiden) Legend has it that any 'childless maiden' that baths in the lake will conceive afterwards. Then we watched some Eagle feeding and got to hang out on a beach for an hour.
Food in Langkawai isn't as good as Penang , but the island itself is somewhat more picturesque. That said, you can't see the island without renting a car or a bike as there is no public transport so there are pluses and minuses.
There are no minuses to having tubes in the Hotel Pool...
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