We’re here! Our evening flight from Adelaide took us to Melbourne, where we transferred to the international terminal and waited five hours for our Air Asia X flight to Kuala Lumpur. The flight was delayed about half an hour, which wasn’t too bad. The flight was as expected: long, but not too long, and uneventful. I’m glad I paid extra for increased leg room. Travelling without it would have sucked! Entry to Malaysia was painless and before long we were on board another flight, to Langkawi.
Our lodgings are at some cool little chalets. Owned and run by two brothers, they’re very new. There are a few teething problems (lack of insulation makes the aircon pretty useless) but they’re new and clean and the two guys couldn’t be nicer. They drove us the few hundred metres to the main beach, Pantai Cenang, and showed us around. They also showed us a little short cut through a kampung (village) to walk there, and it’s beautiful. Even the cows are friendly. I like this place.
It’s hot. Really hot. Humid, too, but not too bad because there hasn’t been any rain for six weeks or more. It’s the dry season, and it shows. All the grass is brown and there’s no water anywhere. The reduction in the number of resident mosquitoes is a huge plus, though.
Plans for Langkawi: the cable car, Restoron Siti Fatimah, perhaps an island hopping trip, and… who knows.
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