Showing posts with label Malaysia tour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia tour. Show all posts

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Tour De Malaysia - day 3 langkawi


We decided to go on 'island hopping' tour , there were lot of private boats which were available , since we were a group of 8 we got a boat of our own - (Refer pics) strapped on the life jackets and embraced ourselves for a heck of ride through seas !

We were taken to a couple of islands after 30 min high speed journey through the sea ... waters were relatively placid still since the boat was an open one and with the winds blowing fine spray of water against faces it was good fun ride ..

We docked at the first island whose name totally escapes me ! the place was supposed to be famous for watersports n stuff ... unfortunately we went on a local holiday and all the shops were closed.

Then we headed to another island after another 10 min ride through sea ... this one was another smallish island but had a freshwater lake in it !!!
the lake was on top of a small hill ... there were lot of monkeys all over tht place .. after trekking up the hill we reached the lake .. boating facilities were there .. u cud rent a canoe or pedal boat and go across the lake
Once tht was done we moved out of the island after 5 mins we reached a point between a set of uninhabited islands ... this was the place for 'eagle feeding' ... ppl toss food in tht place and eagles come in great numbers , swoop in and grab a bite !

after watching it for 10 mins we headed back to the main island .. the whole trip took about 3 hrs
By now we were running out of time .. there were lot more stuff to explore like the Bridge where the Hindi movie 'Don' was shot and a waterfall and couple of places like an island which had a marine park and another one famous for scuba diving ... since we were running out of time we drove around a bit ... had food and returned our rental cars and hung out near Eagle park and took the Ferry back to mainland Malaysia , from where we had to catch an evening train back to Kuala lampur

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Tour De Malaysia

In between a cramped MBA schedule peppered with various courses lasting a week or two we suddenly found ourselves with a weeks break with nothing to do ..so thot of hitting Malaysia .. planned a lot stuff .. but cud finally get away only for 5 days .. we had the tickets for Malaysian Grand Prix .. so fitted our tour around tht.
We left Singapore by KLM Train .. KL was an overnight journey from Sing ... train was like the ones we get in India ( AC coaches) but was running on metre gauge hence compartment seemed smaller and the whole experience wasnt tht gr8 as it shook a lot more than Indian trains.
Entire trip was planned thru minimal internet research ... the big learning i got from this trip ( as with couple of trips i had undertaken in India also) was tht all u need is spirit to roam and experience something new and once u pack ur bags n set out everything falls in place.
At the same time i have to mention tht basic planning is also a must for instance we had booked hotels and train tickets in advance , but rest of the itenary n places we covered were all decided after reaching the respective places.This trip also gave me a chance to experience a totally different nation , which is similar to our own country in some ways , but is marching
ahead in many ways and offers very good lessons for us. I had lived in Singapore for 4 months prior to this , but had not observed the nation tht much , but after malaysian trip when i came back , i started comparing both the nations and kinda improved my understanding of Singapore.
So will post all the happenings of our 5 day trip over here in a series of posts.