Langkawi Island

So I flew to Langkawi on Air Asia yesterday. Unfortunately I did not have a window seat so I could take pictures during the approach to the island. We flew over a bunch of small islands with white beaches in bright blue waters, magnificent! I then took a taxi from the Airport to Pantai Cenang in the south of the island.

Main, and only street of Pantai Cenang.

I wasn’t really in the mood of walking around looking for a hostel for a long time so I checked into the first room that was offered to me. In fact the room was pretty crappy and expensive for what it offered so I moved to a much better and cheaper room today. As it was raining yesterday I didn’t do all to much, just took a short dip in the sea and went to bed early. After sleeping through my alarm I went out trying to rent a scooter this noon but had no success. Most places would not give me a scooter bc I don’t have an appropriate drivers license and when I finally found a place that would rent me one it turned out they didn’t have any scooters available until 4pm. So I decided to let scooter be scooter and just hit the beach.

The place where I spent most of the day. Shady too, because of the trees. The water is so warm here that it merely cools you down just when you get in. Still, there is a constant breeze going and the air is way nicer than in KL. Despite putting on sunscreen and sitting in the shade most of the time I got sunburned, sucks!


These... "structures" are all over the beach. Small crabs built them out of tiny sandballs. No idea why.

Later I witnessed the greatest sunset I have seen in my life so far. It was SO awesome! The following pictures can maybe convey a little of the greatness:

After that I had Thai beef curry for dinner in a restaurant right on the beach, now I’m writing this and soon I will go to bed, because I will try to get up early tomorrow so that I can actually rent a scooter and explore the island. Cant wait to see more of it.