Langkawi - great place to holiday....

Arrived at8am today. Once again it was raining but fined up during the day.



Princess Shore Excursion today is Langkawi Highlights.
We left on time about 9.30am and drove to the Rice Museum. Interesting!


Then we went to the Craft Centre – lovely craft work but prices were a little steep and no one seemed to buy very much there.


Then we drove up into the mountains and stopped at a Rubber Plantation – on the way there was another shower of rain. But the lady came out and showed us how they cut the rubber tree to release the latex. We had never seen this done before.


Then we headed to the Cable Car – it is located in the Indian Village and there were long queues of people. Apparently school holidays had started today. We finally boarded our car with a young German couple and their two small children. It was a very steep climb to the first stop but we did not get off here because we were told the second stop would have the best views. Wrong! By the time we got there the whole mountain was covered in cloud. Another long wait to get back on the Cable car.


We had a short walk around the village and then headed back to the bus. Bus returning directly to the Ship but we asked if we could get off in the town. We had a short walk around the shops – used up the rest of our Ringitt and caught a taxi back to the ship. We agreed to pay $US3 which was probably a little overpriced but the ships shuttle would have cost us $14 ozzie. Once again today we bought Magnums for about $2.



Population of buffalo is growing quickly and causing some problems because they sleep on the roads etc.    Monkeys also causing hassles for some of the resorts where they go into rooms and steal things. Guests have complained about other guests or staff stealing their things.


A ferry runs from Langkawi to Thailand about an hours’ ride. Beach at Langkawi looked good with lots of opportunities to use fun things like jet skis, etc. Lots of good things to do here – elephant rides, horse riding, the cable car, ferry to Thailand.
Everyone back on board on time today.


$1 AUS = 2.7 ringgitt – excellent rate –huge duty free shop = great place for return holiday.