Pulau Langkawi

Wow, finally I back from Langkawi, I wanted to visit there since long time ago, but just don’t have chance to do so : ) This Langkawi trip is the 1st time for me to go island with my college mates, probably this would be the last trip for us. There will be less chance for us to hang out together when we start working later on. Although only 7 people went for the trip, all of us enjoyed ourselves so much, we really had fun there, I guess so. Actually this is a new experience and it is special for me because I am like a light bulb all the time during the trip (except the time when all are sleeping), always ‘POP’ wherever I go with my mates, so bright! Haha, I’m just kidding, I don’t really mind about that anyway. Probably this post is for my SEGi mates, last memory before we graduate =D

12th of June, we finish our last paper for degree course and our student life is over. We spent only two week times to get information, book hotel, buy bus ticket and get confirmation from all members, seriously it was too rush man, and we have to settle everything while preparing for the final exam. No matter how tough it is, we went for trip at 15th of June as what we have planned! Our journey started when we took bus from KL Pudu bus station at 10.30pm. On the way to Kuala Perlis, honestly I got nothing better to do other than listening to MP3. I was sitting alone, the bus was quite full so I didn’t really want to make noise so I just remain silent. Then, guess what I’ve done? Sms for a while, and start falling asleep after a moment (I think one or two of my mates also the same). Of course my other mates were chatting non-stop, few of them didn’t even sleep for the whole night. Actually they did try to sleep, but when they started to close their eyes, the bus stop. We reached Kuala Perlis! LOL! But the driver was so cheap, he just dropped us at the roadside and we need to walk to the port ourselves. The time was around 6.15am and it was raining some more! But luckily the port is not too far away, otherwise we will curse the driver badly. After that, we immediately bought ticket for ferry heading to Langkawi, it will depart at 7am. We got 45 minutes free time here, and I did something that I never do before and I will never do it again in my life time. I brushed my teeth together with my other two mates in public toilet! Oh man, the feeling was pretty weird and the toilet was so smelly. Kanasai! Nobody forces me to do that, do not understand how come I can make it. Clean or not also do not know.

7am, the ferry is ready, all of us was so sleepy and quickly ran into the ferry and got my ‘VIP’ seat. I took whole row, 1 seat is for my bag, and the rest is my ‘dragon bed’. Oh, I sleep again, haha. This time I opened my eyes very fast, I woke up after 20 mins. I looked around, the ferry was surrounded by seawater, we were still on the way. The ancient ferry was just too slow, sigh. 8.40am, finally I saw Langkawi port, but I think the captain got no license, he spent super long to park the ferry. Got no skill but still want to do ‘side parking’ (actually I don’t know, but my friend said like that). He was waiting for the other ferry to leave the port perhaps. Once we landed on Langkawi, one gang of uncles faster walked to us, asked whether we want to rent a car or not. We cincai follow one and got our van. Again, the businessman here also very cheap, the car fuel meter pointed to ‘Empty’, so we need to find petrol station. None of us has been here before, we do not know the place, do not know the location of our hotel. We just look at map but also do not know what is shown on the paper, Hotel Langkasuka does not exist in the map, OMG!! Really regret that we did not accept that uncle’s suggestion to change to Langkasuka Resort with same price. We asked for help from local police and got to our hotel. When we reached there, the hotel looks totally different from what we have seen in the website. 'Are you sure this is the hotel that we made reservation?', my friend asked. We are cheated by the picture zzz.

After checked in, we take a short break. All of us are so tired, we lying on the bed then take turn to bath. Then we request to change our van to Innova, because the van got no air cond, those who sitting behind just sweat all the time, beh tahan la. While waitng for the person to drive Innova to our hotel, we walked around the shopping complex next to the hotel. I found that residents here are so relax, 10,30am but most of the shops are not open yet, no need to do business? Or no business to do in the morning then they open later to save cost? No idea, but i know this wont happen in Kl, unless that person is a rich guy. We start to have fun after having lunch!

On the 1st day, we went for cable car ride 1st, my friends want to take pictures there. However, when we reach there, oh no! bad news! We can't buy ticket, the cable car is under maintenence. My friend keep on complaining that la this la, why the cable car is moving but we are not allowed to take a ride? The notice written that maintenence will be undertaken on the next day, but they start doing it today. Luckily it is getting more crowded, many foriegn tourists are there and i think this is the reason why they re-open the cable car service and we are going up to the top of the hill! Seriously, the view is so beautiful when i look from top. Especially the crystal blue ocean and the nature forest, wow fantastic! The air is so fresh and the environment is a bit cold, so comfortable, i like it. We need to walk and climb on foot when we reach the top, this is the challenge part. It looks easy but actually it spends much of stamina to do so, of course this is not a problem for me la, haha. What is special for me up there is, the hanging bridge. This is the most crowded place and you will see many tourists are taking pictures there, including us. This structure is so amazing, how do they carry such a big item up to the hill? And how do they set up a bridge on the hill as there is nothing up there? haha, it is tiring but it is worthwhile to spend so much of energy to reach here.

After that, we went to Telaga Tujuh Waterfalls (i think we only passed by) and Air Terjun Temurun. This spot is quite tiring also because we need to walk and climb up to reach the waterfalls again. I was thinking, how come all the famous places here are so 'san ka la', no transport can reach there, must walk so far, old people sure not able to make it la. How should i bring my parent, father & mother in law here next time, headache.. We did not bring along our towel and extra cloth, so we can only look at others having fun in the water while taking nice picture here. I saw a young boy sitting under the waterfalls, he was so enjoy when the water falls on its body, it is such a waste for me, cant join him, too bad. The most we can do is to put our legs in the water, feel its movement, at least cool down our body. It was evening time then we go back to hotel and ready for dinner. Although we only visit to few places, but it spent us the whole afternoon time. At night, we have dinner at Kuah town, nothing special with the food here, but the price is quite expensive. We went to shop after that, there are few supermarkets located at the same area, we compared the price of items in each supermarket before we buy. But actually all the supermarkets are selling the same things such as chocolate, beer, liquor, cigarrate, and the prices do not differ too much also. Unless you buy a lot, otherwise i think it should be ok for you to shop in any supermarket there.


To be continue..