eat, drink & party!

We arrived safe and sound at Langkawi, the second trip to Langkawi with Anu. On our way to our hotel, Awana Porto Malai, we drove along the popular Pantai Chenang and it was full of foreigners/westerners. Once we got into our room, it must have taken us only 3-4 minutes before we set on our journey to explore the island from there. We just felt like driving around and listening to music. So, after a late lunch at “T-Jays”, we decided to go to Kuah town to check out some duty-free stuff.

Our preferred mode of transportation on Langkawi had a little mishap on our 1^st day at the island due to over-excitement & compilation of funny luck, fortunately we all survived the little bad-luck with very little damage to our pockets.

After the mishap turned miracle escape we drove back to Pantai Chenang in our rental and spent rest of the afternoon doing nothing but chilling-out by the beach and watching lot of foreigners and Rastafarian look-alike locals playing volleyball by the beach. It was a great atmosphere with the odd Jet Ski buzzing around despite the place feeling really laid-back. For the first time in ages, I actually felt like I was in a real holiday.

I could say that Langkawi is, in a way, understated – it is beautiful up to the point where it wasn't a huge tourist destination like Ko Samui or Bali. Sometime I wonder the island is so ridiculously beautiful that the rest of the world failed to catch on. Anyway, I like it because of the laid-back, small, friendly people and cheap factors. And, this time around I met some great people too, people were super duper times by hundred nicer than people back here in KL.

On our second day we took a ride on a cable car to the top of a mountain with a great view of the whole island. Anu had some fun there with her cool Heineken hat :). Then, we spend the afternoon back at Pantai Chenang, walking from one end of the beach to other and occasional dip into the warm sea. We felt like we were finally in paradise. There were lots of nice restaurants lined up and down along Pantai Chenang and people fly across the blue sky on their para sail or across the crystal sea on their jet ski. Before long, we were ready for a shower and we head back to our hotel to get ready for the night ahead.

We had our dinner at what calls itself a best Indian restaurant in Langkawi. It’s bordering on south/north Indian cuisine and the service was superb, partly because Anu is somewhat related to the owner.

Leaving the restaurant we went back to Pantai Chenang for our boat trip to take us to the Full-Moon party at Monkey Island. The boat trip was bit frightening though the trip worth every penny. After an evening of dancing and laughing we get into the ‘Rastafarian style’ boat back to the Pantai Chenang and drove back to our hotel and Anu and I are asleep by… oooo… as early as 4 or 5am. It was a fun evening especially we giggling about the whole scenario.

All in all, a whirlwind experience and fabulous 3 days! It went by too quickly, as it always does, but of course it’s nice to be “home” in KL. Sorry it’s taken me bit long to post this, but hopefully it is thoroughly detailed and makes you just a little jealous :).