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Paradise on Earth
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Strange how things work out. Over the last couple of weeks I've decided to stop travelling. Not that I need to - I could afford to carry on for a little while yet, but I'm ready to stop. Ready for a change: ready for a bit of normality and routine, and relationships that last more than a few days; ready to stop moving around; ready to get my life going again. After the Highlands, my plan was to make my way to Bangkok. First I would go to Langkawi, off the north-west coast of Malaysia, from where I would head directly into Thailand. Maybe a bit of beach time at Koh Phi Phi and then straight to Bangkok from where I would fly to Shanghai, where I will live and work for a while. That was the plan anyway. And the plan lasted right up until about an hour before I was due to catch my bus when, over breakfast and on a whim, I changed my mind and ended up heading for the island of Pulau Pangkor with Mary, an Australian girl I'd been hanging out with. As soon as we arrived I knew I'd made the right call. Paradise! What a georgeous place. Pristine beaches, clear water, great people, the works. Our daily routine was soon established: wake up late morning; wander down to the beach and splash around for an hour or so; grab some lunch; go back to the beach until sunset; spend the evening eating and drinking; go back into the sea late at night to swim with the phospherence; go to bed around 3 or 4. We spent over a week here, utterly absorbed in the luxury of our surroundings. The thing that makes it is the friendliness of the locals - the island is small and the town we were in tiny yet provides well for tourists and manages to retain a pleasant sense of community. The vast majority of people would at least smile at you, many coming over for a brief chat or simply to shake your hand. Without doubt, along with Cambodians, Malays have been my favourite nationality.
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