Langkawi Trip - Part 1

hmm, i should stop procrastinate and start blog about my 3 days 2 nights stay at Langkawi. actually the main purpose that we visited langkawi is because my poor sis has been selected for the nasional service thingy and her camp is situated somewhere, which i already forgot the name in langkawi. So my parents wanna kill 2 birds with one stone, they wanna go and search for the camp site and also take us to go travel around instead of sitting at home watching tv the whole day. The last time i went to langkawi is like......10 years ago!

we travelled there by ferry, well i would say that this is the first time i travel by ferry [note: not those kind that we take from penang to butterworth, it's smaller and air-conditioned, and the speed is faster] the whole journey took almost 3 hours as the ferry stopped at Pulau Payar to drop some of the passengers who go snorkelling and all the water sports.



on the way to the ferry


views from my seat

the truth is that there wasn't many chinese passengers, mostly caucasians, malays and indians....haihz...



views from my seats again...

no offence but the malays/indians were driving me nuts throughout the whole journey, especially the kids. they were like sufferred from sugar overdose, and made noises and ran
around almost every single minutes! Grrrrrr! some of them even grabbed my hair accidentally, more than once...celaka! luckily i had my mp3 player with me all the time so that i can blast the music to myself whenever those over-active kids annoyed me again.



the view from my seat

then one hour before we reached langkawi, i went up to the upper division of the ferry which is open-aired. that place was really nice and you can enjoy the whole seaview and breezy wind. Snapped a lot of pics but most of them you can actually see that my hair was "flying" all over the place, looked exactly like siao po...LOL!







enjoying every single moment of it... :)

okay, the first thing when we reached langkawi was to rent a car to make our adventure-seeking easier. We rented a grey iswara which costs us RM160. Tell you what, the iswara was so cacat! first, the right passenger door cannot be open from the inside, if you all are observant enough, i LOVE and most of the time sit at the right passenger seat (behind the driver). Therefore, everytime i wanted to open the door, i will ask my dad to open for me from the outside. Haha, i felt like i was some kind of "tua liap lang" :p then the steerring wheel was like a stone! damn hard to steer man...dunno how much calories you will lose after a few turns... third, the mileage meter won't work at all! fourth, the petrol meter also sot sot dei, sometimes it showed three quarter fulled, sometimes it showed EMPTY! gila...

soooo, after filling the petrol, we headed to our hotel, Eagle Bay hotel...yea, it sounds so 5-star right? you're so wrong....it's a 2-star hotel only i supposed. but overall the facilities and the room weren't as bad as i thought. After settling down our stuff in the room, we decided to go to the town centre, Kuah to have lunch. There were a lot of duty free shops that offer a lot of cheap goods. But most people will take this opportunity to buy LOTSA chocolates and i'm definitely one of them =) the liquors and cigarattes also selling cheap.

and then we went to the famous cable-car ride, which i also forgotten the name of that area. but it doesnt matter, what matters is the view from the top of the mountains. It was sooooo breathtaking!!!!! it only costs 15 dollars per adult with MyCard, if without MyCard it's 25 dollars per adult. what the....i nearly fainted when i saw the LOOOONG queue....man, how long we have to wait?! but the sight from the top proved that the wait is worthwhile... :)
while waiting....






well, i'm not going to write much here, let the following pics do all the talkings....

in the cable car...







actually there were 2 stops. the first stop we were brought to 652.5 meters above sea level and the second stop we were brought to 710 meters above sea level.






nice views... (ohh..i wish i could post all the pics here...but limited space..)





the hanging bridge, you can actually feel the bridge is shaking lightly when you walked across it....





behind us was the breast-like mountains...HAHA!!


after returned to the ground level...hehe..



actually we planned to go to the Seven Wells Waterfall after this, but our legs were so ache that we just can't walk anymore...stupid legs!
so we went back to have dinner at Kuah town, the dinner costs around a freaking 70 dollars! damn expensive!

~to be continued~