Sunday, November 21, 2010

Langkawi - a taste of what's to come...







Langkawi is a holiday island off the North West coast of Malaysia, very close to Thailand.It's made up of 99 small islands and is very tropical with some beach resorts and jungle in the interior.
Arrived in Langkawi by boat from Penang yesterday and this is what we did today! Yes mum, we hired another moped and yes we both had helmets again! We managed to get round the whole island on our little moped and even made a few stops along the way. We stopped at the cable car but the queue was massive so gave it a miss and headed for the Seven wells falls instead. This is a huge waterfall with lots of rockpools on the way down - well seven! It was a steep hike up to them so we were glad to dive in when we arrived. the rock were so slippy between the pools that you can use them as natural slides. the last time we did this was in Oz ten years ago - remember Sarah!? It was fantastic fun and we spent quite a bit of time here. John even managed to video his ride as you can see.
We visited another waterfall later on but it asn't nearly as fun so just took a few pics and continued our ride round the Island, stopping off on the way to admire the view.

Tomorrow we're off on a boat trip island hopping so we'll update
you all on this later!

One of the smaller slides and pools

The big one...that the video shows!
This was a lovely photo until we both tried to get our camera back of the nice man...
and couldn't actually climb out, it was so slippery, he found this all very amusing!

Glad we didn't accidently slide over the waterfall!

The view from the black sand beach on the North coast

1 comment:

  1. nearly broke my arm on those slippery rocks, good fun though :)

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