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I was so happy to be getting out of Penang. 6 days was far too long. On the bus to the boat is a S.African girl - Sjanie, Scottish/Oz guy - Iain, an Irish guy and his English Girlfriend - James and Jade. On the boat there's no seats until they open the VIP lounge, with a movie showing. At 8.30am its a bit hard taking the movie seriously when the body count easily reaches over 500 and the hero comes back from the dead every 5 minutes, so its back to sleep for me. We can see the water getting visibly clearer as we close in on Langkawi, which is a relief cos I bought a mask and snorkel before Penang thinking it would come in useful.

Happy/Unhappy New Year to me!!

Gareth Penpraze
2007-04-21 00:23:56

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an elephant walk in a circle, a spot of lunch at Black Sand Beach - I'm sure the Vietnamese came here
at one point to highlight some tourist attractions cos the Black Sand beach was a scam if ever we saw one. We drive on to Skeleton beach stopping on route to view the monkeys at the side of the road. Like the good primates they are, a couple decide to put a show on for us and have a quick shag. The male then lies back and rubs his balls while his girl picks the flees off his back. Life doesn't get much better for him!! Skeleton beach is amazing white sand with a huge sand bar you can walk along out to some tiny rock formations. We try to lie in the shade near a resort on the beach and the security guard chases us off - "Sorry this shade for hotel guests only!"

After the beach we drive to Gunung Raya - the largest mountain on the island - with great difficulty as our 800cc car with 5 people in it is struggling. Again we come across monkeys sitting by the road, low and behold they put another show on for us!! We just about make it to the top but is a wasted trip cos the sopposed tea room has been closed for years and the military won't let us up to the viewpoint - Thanks Lonely Planet!! We finish the day off by going to Kuah to see some chinese blokes walk over a bonfire, they'd have put Ian Paisley to shame with their skills!! We are there for the warm up (it was bloody roasting from where I was sittin) and we're told they wait until it gets even hotter. Instead we are treated to some Chinese cat strangling i.e. very poor singing at 3000 decibels. Sjanie manages 15 minutes and the rest of us are away after 2 songs.

We go far breakfast at the Breakfast Bar and the young waitress comes and sits down next to me starts chatting away. She starts asking all these questions to us all. Sjanie manages to ask 2 before she snaps back "Anything else you want to know?" She comes back and sits down ...