It was almost 8:00 am, we were on the verge of screaming, we walked fast almost running towards to ferry terminal. Reached there and found out that the ferry has not come yet and will take another 15 minutes. We were relieved. There were about 300 to 500 people waiting for ferry with more than half looks like Japanese tour groups, with fluorescent color jackets and different color hats to identify them from others. After 15 minutes wait I saw a huge ship coming towards our jetty, I thought this might not be the one. Within 5 minutes I knew it was not it was coming from Indonesia. Our ferry arrived right behind the huge ship. It was 2 and half hours journey in fast ferry. It was sickening experience as the ferry was rocking almost like bumpy roller coaster ride. The on ferry movie was “The Last Samurai” starring Tom Cruise; we can clearly see that it was pirated copy, as the movie was not released in Asia. We landed in Langkawi jetty after 2 and half hour’s difficult sea ride.
First impression was “It’s ok, nothing spectacular”. The island looked all right. First thing’s first… Food!! Had chicken burger and cheese fries in KFC at mall adjacent to ferry terminal. Decided to hire taxi to go around Island as we had only 7 hours before last ferry departs from Langkawi to Penang. Went straight to Langkawi waterfall, which was decent track, bath in our undies and came back in 1 hour!! It was really fun! Rushed to the beach which was the main attraction for us as we heard lot about it. As soon as our taxi reached beach road I just screamed “Stop! I know this beach! It’s in many bollywood movies!!” (the immediate one I remember is “oh priya” song from the movie “Daraar”). It was beautiful, pure white sand and dark blue water with small green island in the middle of the sea… it was amazingly beautiful. The water was really calm and slightly warm as it was afternoon and the sun was blazing above. But it was worth it the beach is called “Tanjong Rua”. It was like peace of heaven. There was a resort near by called Tanjong Rua beach resort. After swimming for more than hour, we met a boat’s man who offered us 2 hour trip to near by island for snorkeling and island hopping.
We have accepted happily as he was charging 100 ringgets and we can have a new experience as non of us have snorkeled before and even went this deep in the sea. 2 slightly old English couple joined us in the boat. Then only we found out that the boat was originally hired by these two and we were hitchhiking so that the boatowner can earn some extra cash. The boat’s man has introduced us as his cousins J we have pretended like were actually related.. that was fun!! He took us near a small island where there were coral rocks, he told us that there were really good fishes in the water, so the English gentleman and me we jumped in the water (me with a life jacket ofcourse!!) I was unable to see anything as I didn’t had any snorkeling gears! So the kind English lady offered me her which politely accepted. From then on the sea was beautiful, I saw really beautiful fishes with all sizes and colours. The rock formation near the island were dramatic there were some cavings inside the rocks too. it was amazing experience after a while I heard a “thud” sound. Hiren was in the water too with the life jacket. We snorkeled around for an hour. During my snorkeling adventure I have did something which I’ve regretted later.
(Me at Tanjong Rhua beach)
(Me Snorkling) There was a huge rock near by just for the fun I tried to climb that rock from the water.. o oh.. that was a bad idea. As the rock was very sharp it’s it was made of small needles.. I end up with bruises in both my hands and legs! We finished snorkeling and got back to our boat. After that we head to another deserted island where we said good by to the English couple who were planning to snorkel around that island and came back to the Tanjong Rua beach where our taxi driver was waiting. We rushed back to the ferry terminal and found out that our ferry was 1 hour late! Well waited for an hour. When we finally boarded ferry the sickening feeling started again..this time there was some Chinese martial art movie in our ferry trip. The boat was moving fast as well as my stomach. Finally landed in Penang, back to the hotel. Rested for a while and then went for dinner at the Indian restaurant.
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