Langkawi

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Hotel checkout was 12 o'clock, so we took advantage of our final breakfast and free hot drinks. Our bags were packed and we headed off along the main road to the bus stop. We discussed whether we should get the first bus to arrive or first grab lunch. We decided to wait at the bus stop to see if an earlier bus arrived.

A bus arrived and took us to Kuala Kedah. It was an old bus with a friendly driver. He dropped as at the KK jetty. As we were now early for our 4pm ferry, we went to find lunch. A small cafe was selling nasi kandar so we sat and ate! Iced coffee with the usual sweet evaporated milk plus sugar helped us stay hydrated and took us one step closer to sugar overload.

Inside the ferry building, our friend had come to wave us off after his earlier appointment. It was a nice surprise.

The ferry left on time. We enjoyed the scenery for the first 2 minutes before sleeping the rest of the way. We even missed Godzilla King of the Monsters on TV. As usual the Aircon was freezing!

We arrived at the huge Langkawi Kuah jetty. It is like an airport with duty free shops, Starbucks, KFC etc. We left this all behind and walked uphill towards our hotel. The chosen route wasn't great and we were the wrong side of the hotel so we couldn't access it. A kind man on a motorbike pointed us in the right direction. He even waited at the turning to guide us to the hotel.

A nice room in a quiet location. We dropped our bags and headed to the eagle park to watch the sunset. There was a huge eagle statue and plenty of selfie tourists with the same idea.

We took our selfies and walked through the shopping wall back towards the hotel. We took a different route past the monkey tree (loads of the mischievous little creatures here). Enroute we stopped at a little stall to spend our remaining Malaysian Ringits on roti Kanai.



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