Friday, June 19, 2009

Island Hopping-Perhentian,Redang and Lang Tengah

Was back from 3 days 2 nights Island Hopping at Perhentian, Redang and Lang Tengah. It was a last minute planning because my cousin will be going for National service very soon so we decided to go for a holiday together. We planned, confirmed and booked everything 5 days before we leave..thanks to Yen Mee who introduced Ah Han aka Wchoch (enthuse diver) to us. He settled everything (accommodation, food, boat and land transfer, snorkering package in 3 island, equipment etc) with reasonable cheap price. We only have to buy our air ticket to Kota Bharu airport. We depart to the airport around 6am to the LCCT airport on 13th June for flight at 7.40am. It took us only 40minutes to reach (15minutes ahead from actual estimated time) Kota Bharu airport. They had arranged a taxi driver to pick us up at the airport to Kuala Besut jetty. Didn't know the distance from airport to the jetty was so long...it took us about 1 and half hours! From jetty, we took the speedboat to our resort. We stayed at Fauna Chalet, Teluk Dalam Beach at Perhentian Besar. Not bad for budget stay but the mosquitos are big and annoying.
After lunch, We went snorkering at Perhentian Island. Famous for its Long Beach, Tiga Ruang, Teluk Pauh, Tanjung Genting, Shark Point and Air Berani. We're lucky to see the shark about 1.5m long, huge sea turtle, nemo and baby turtles too! There're more than 150 of them.
After snorkering and bitten by some little fishies, we went back to our chalet for some safety tips on our next adventure~~Diving! We went for discovery diving and the experience was awesome! the air tank is heavy but it's fine under the water. They added a 4kg weight on my waist which makes me sink and keep touching the ground underwater..and I need to keep pumping some air when I swim. The only thing that really bothers me was my contact lenses being too long underwater in the salted sea was bad but it gets well after that. It was all worth it! We're all tired on the very first day so we ate a lot for dinner LOL. We stroll along the beach and saw some blue sand..which they said they're actually one kind of prawn's eggs :)


The next day, we went snorkering again. This time to Redang Island. We went to the Long Beach where the rebuilt More More Tea Inn was. The delicate silky white sand and the crystal clear water was amazing! Snorkering around the whole little island at the beach was tiring but it was great to swim along with the baby sharks!
We then head to the Marine Park where we get to see huge eel and loads of colourful fish. Wanted to take some underwater photos with the fish so life jacket was taken off. Holding breathe was not hard but diving into the water was hard...I kept floating up by itself.. Even the diver finds it hard to pull me down..LOL. Maybe my body fat makes me float :P Swimming without the life jacket was cool..as you can swim easier and get close to the fish. We then proceed to Lang Tengah for more beautiful corals.

After the whole day of snorkering, we went back to our resort and start building sand castles..finally we build a sand cake for our cousin YungYung's 21st birthday. While we're busy building the sand thingy, the naughty little monkey came jumping and out of a sudden it grabs my leg and start bitting..damn..I was shocked and not quick enough to react..just screamed and tried to get rid of it but it grab me so tight..then a guy came and quickly kick it away. Lucky it was a small little monkey with it's teeth blunted. My leg was left with light scar and teeth mark. *phew~ That night we celebrated her birthday together with Wchoch's magic tricks and such a coincident that an actor (a bad guy named Spark) from the movie 'Mat Rempit' was there with us to play his guitar and sing. The funniest part was when my uncle went drunk dancing with Tony. They did some wicked moves which makes everyone laughed like mad LMAO.
We're suppose to go for jungle trekking the next morning but the weather is not too good and no guide for us so it was cancelled. Everyone were pretty tired so we just stroll by the beach and take more photos before we leave the wonderdul island. T_T We left the island with wonderful experience and I feel like going for Open Water and diving license soon..haha..if only I have enough time and $$ :P

This place is highly recommended for all to visit! and anyone interested going..please ask me to join along! I'm lovin' it....wahahahaha..

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