After resetting our air conditioning unit every 30 minutes for 5 hours last night, it was nice and cool in here so we turned it off when we went to sleep, just leaving the ceiling fan on. It was a very pleasant night.
We were up at a decent hour this morning, enjoyed our breakfast and headed out on the road again. We returned to the waterfall we skipped yesterday and were happy to find that the guy hanging around in his car out front was no longer there. There was some other dude and his dog hanging around this morning but I was feeling brave.
The trek to the waterfall wasn’t too far or bad. There was a bad last section up to see the top section pool but I decided to skip it but Alan went up. There wasn’t much to see anyway.
On the left is what it looks like during the wet season and on the right is what we saw (or didn’t see) today. We would have liked to have taken a swim in the cold water coming off the mountain, that is if the water hadn’t been ankle deep.
We drove along to find the next waterfall but failed to see the sign for the turnoff. We decided not to go back as we suspected the lack of water would have continued. Everything is fairly dry here. There was no sign. I would have seen it.
Before long we made it to Kuah which is like the shopping district of Langkawi. So this was where they have been hiding all the people. There were cars everywhere, some double and triple parked. The place seemed fairly dirty too and we are happy to be staying in the area we are in.
By this time Alan was feeling a bit hungry so we headed down to the point where there is a nice resort .,,. or so we thought. We had seen a sign for Eagle Rock Cafe, which would appear to be Langkawi’s answer to the Hard Rock Cafe. However, the place was closed and most of the shops around the resort were vacant, the place was pretty much deserted.We had seen a sign for an Australian Deli so we headed back there. Well, this was laughable, they had almost nothing in the place. There was a magazine rack and boxes of fruit flown in direct from Australia, or so they say. We ended up at the little shop a few doors up and got some nibblies.
We came back to the room to eat and enjoyed a lovely breeze that was flowing through the house. Then we went to the adjoining hotel for a swim in their pool and arrived in time to get glasses of iced water and a plate of fruit (banana, honeydew and watermelon). Nice!
The pools here are very nice and well maintained but they are lacking in stairs. You have to take a large step down or up to get in and out and they are too high for my short little legs.
We came back and had a swim in our pool and then Alan retired for a nap with the cat while I sat around the pool in the shade reading my book. Do I really have to leave this place tomorrow? Yes! I don't think there's much left for us to do here.
We had dinner at the hotel tonight. They have tapas from 5-7pm and we arrived at happy hour and got half priced drinks. Dinner was lovely; satay skewers, bolognaise meat on bread rolls covered in cheese, prawn cakes, beef & peanut rendang with pita bread and deep fried calamari with lemon aioli. Nice!! Plus chocolate milkshakes.After dinner we walked around to play with the cats. They are all extremely friendly, and pretty good with each other. They have their territory and don’t tend to invade others. However, if you stop and pat one, it will then start to follow you. At one stage tonight Alan had three running after him as he moved to his fourth.
So this is it for us and Langkawi Island. Tomorrow we embark on our 5 nights in Kuala Lumpur. It should be interesting, that is if we ever find out way out of the airport.
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