The rest of Langkawi

I will finish off on Langkawi as we're leaving tomorrow to get the boat back to Penang before flying out the following day to Medan in Sumatra, Indonesia for a few days.
It's still boiling hot here and we took an Island hopping boat trip this morning which travelled through the islands.

We stopped at an Island where you can get off and walk 10 minutes to a lake called the lake of the pregnant maiden -you are supposed to swim in it and drink it!!!  We did the swimming and I'm sure I ingested a little - will find this out tomorrow probably when I become ill!!!

I think I was drowning John in the lake at this point to stay afloat!

Next stop was an area where there were hundreds of eagles flying overhead. Beautiful birds soaring above us, quite an amazing sight.

last stop was an island with a beach to swim on. This would have been lovely apart from the other 50 boat loads of people there and the fact that the island seemed to be infested with hairy caterpillars!! We spent our hour in the water hiding from the sun and the caterpillars.

Hiding from the sun and those hairy caterpillars!

The trip was OK but definitely could have been much better. Langkawi has been a little disappointing to us both. We've been to lots of amazing places in the world and this was probably one of the worst in terms of what tourism seems to be doing. The scenery and surroundings they have are wonderful but not so great when there are so many other toursists all doing the same thing and dropping their rubbish in the clear blue waters! I actually saw someone drop litter from a boat straight into the sea...shocking! It would be much better if you could hire a sea kayak and explore the islands yourself in peace rather than only 3 trips being offered at every single tourist outlet and everyone being taken to the same toursity island at the same time! Apart from the rock sliding it hasn't lived up to our expectations or compared to many other places we've been. Sad but true...it could do better.