Langkawi- no public transport so make a friend with a Moped!

I left Georgetown in the morning and boarded a ferry to Langkawi. My first stop when reaching langkawi was Kuah. I wandered to the eagle square, which was a square with a massive eagle in it which is Langkawi's symbol.

Where I met a chinese girl who was also travelling by herself. We then went to Legends park together which is a park depicting the legends of Malaysia

 and then shared a taxi to Pantai Tengah. She was only staying the night in a different part of langkawi so we said goodbye in the taxi. I arrived in my hostel which was quite nice and had a pool and really friendly staff.

I then immediately went to the beach!

The water was really warm and lovely and the beach was quite quiet so I had a lovely time reading my kindle. It was quite late by that point so I went to get dinner and it started thunder and lightening and raining heavily so I ended up staying in my hostel for the rest of the night.

Day two was a tour to the mangroves I had arranged the day before. I was picked up from my hostel to be met by an English- chinese family on the bus. There was a girl who was with her parents. Turns out she was an accountant living and working in London and we were the same height so her mother kept saying we were twins for the whole trip and wanted pics of us together and everything. She was great and we hit it off straight away. Her father was hilarious as well.

The mangrove tour, as the name suggests, took us to the mangroves on a boat. Our tour guide was a local who thought he was funny but as none of us didn't understand half of what he was saying, he wasn't!

We also went to a bat cave home to hundreds of bats.

Then a girl from South Korea turned up as they had forgotten to pick her up and she made friends with me and my new twin!

We were then taken on the boat through the rivers and mangroves where we saw monkeys. One jumped onto our boat which was scary but eventually left after the tour guide fed him left.

We then saw some eagles,

visited a fish farm and had lunch on a floating restaurant. After which it started raining again so it was back to the boat and we were brought back to our hotels. Of course everyone else was staying in a fancy 5 star hotel, thankfully I was dropped of last so they couldn't see my little hostel!

The next day I hired a taxi to take me to the langkawi cable car which off course when I got there was cloudy so I never saw very much.

But the ride through the forest was nice and I chatted to a malaysian family who yet again couldn't believe I was travelling alone!

Then I took a taxi to Tanjung Rhu beach. This was the best beach on the island and was quiet and very tropical like. I stayed there for a few hours reading my kindle and swimming.

After which I bartered with a private hire car to take me back for the price of a taxi.

I then met Li from France at my hostel who had a moped and agreed to take me round the island over the next few days.

The next day Li and I went to the seven wells waterfalls and had a run through the island.

We then made friends with a japanese boy and a korean girl and we went to the night market in the japanese boys car. It was quite busy and there was lots of street food. I had these pancakes with sugar and sweetcorn in them. Yes it actually worked as a combination. I also had some noodles and loads of little coconut cakes. It was so cheap. We then went back to our hostel to hang out and eat our food. They were really interesting people. I also met a very odd old woman from England who comes to the hostel regularly from georgetown. She was strange but leant me her hair dryer so also nice.

My final day and Li and I went to Gunung Raya mountain. It took us ages to get there and was really steep. We eventually got there and were rewarded with amazing views of langkawi.

After which we had lunch in a lovely tropical looking cafe and then went to Pantai Cenang beach for a couple of hours before dinner. We then had dinner in a fish restaurant that kills the fish on sight! Li had lobster which he had to choose from a tank. Luckily I didn't have to choose my prawns!!

On my last day I said goodbye to li  and went to the airport to catch my flight to Vietnam to meet up with Lucy Watson my holiday buddy.

I liked Langkawi. It was quite modern but retained its Island appeal. It had some nice places to eat and some nice beaches but no public transport. So you either need to hire a car, be confident on a scooter or do what I did and make friends with a man on a moped :) (Thanks Li)