After being spoilt by Thailand's wonderful hospitality and natural beauty, and the locals all knowing what travellers really want from a place, the Perhentian islands in Malaysia didn't quite cut it. It certainly didn't help that we arrived in the last few days of Ramadam so most of the locals were hungry and grumpy, and it was pretty hard to find any food available other than crisps and biscuits! However, we were lucky enough to see some amazing marine life and beautiful corals on our snorkelling trip...
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| Nemo dazzled by the flash |
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| Black-tip reef shark |
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| Green turtle |
That evening it was announced that a sliver of new moon had been glimpsed signalling the end of Ramadam. Yay! So the next morning we went for breakfast and after waiting 1hr 20mins for a fruit salad and toast only to be told they had lost our order(!), we left the Perhentian islands hungry and keen to find somewhere not brought to a standstill by the religious holiday. So we headed to KL (that's Kuala Lumpur for you non-cool kids) where we stayed with a lovely Chinese-Malay couple, Law and Eunice, who kindly offered us a bed for 2 nights and proudly took on the role of tour guides showing us all the best highlights of KL!
Malaysia is famous for it's food - we tried the local breakfast dish Nasi Lemak - coconut rice with peanuts, dried fish and fish-paste sauce... hmm... some delicious Chinese dimsum (which we adored and Beth is keen to learn how to cook, however we hear it takes years to master) and a whole variety of other Chinese delicacies, with Char Keoy Taew standing out as a favourite (Penang-style noodles). We ate such a mountain of food that it more than made up for our crisps and biscuits diet on the Perhentian Islands.
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| Early-morning dimsum... mmm! |
Our last day before flying to Bali was spent in the olympic-sized pool attached to our hosts' appartment block, which conveniently is completely deserted during the day as locals don't like to get in the sun... so we jumped in and messed up the tranquility!
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| Attempting the graceful Butterfly stroke |
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| At Malaysian immigration... we were unsure they'd let us in! |
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