Greg and Deb's Travel Blog

Day 29 & 30 8 & 9 March 26 The Datai, Langkawi, Malaysia to Home, Adelaide , Australia
We got up to breakfast a bit after 9am, yes breakfast, not brunch, this holiday is coming to an end. We got a table outside for breakfast, not the VIP front row, but a nice table none the less. Our view to Thailand was down to just the front mountains on the island. The others were hidden behind a layer of cloud/steamy fog. Continue reading →

Day 25 4 March 26
No rush to get up this morning, no plans today until 3pm.
We got up to brunch a bit before 10am, we are both enjoying the really slow starts to our days.
In the afternoon, yes it was a slow morning, definitely in holiday mode, we went to the main bar area and had “Afternoon Tea” or “High Tea” if you’d prefer. It was very tasty and indulgent. Scones with jams and cream, and a 3 tiered silver plate tower with savoury and sweets on it. We sat and laughed and drank and ate and laughed a bit more for a couple of hours. I think there were 3 top-ups of our tea in that time! A nice way to spend the afternoon together, life is good. We are so lucky. Continue reading →

It seems strange to say this, but it has taken until we arrived in Malaysia for us to have an electronic lock on the door of our accommodation. All through Sri Lanka and even in the Maldives, all our accommodation – hotels, tents and a villa, had old fashioned key locks. Once we hit Malaysia it was a swipe card for our airport hotel and fancy nf (near field) wrist band here in The Datai.
Day 23     2 March 26
We started our day with an 8am Jungle birdwatching walk. Our guide was Dev, a passionate local and had been employed, or one way or another involved in the resort since it very beginnings. Continue reading →

Well that was an “interesting” night, not!
We finished up changing rooms at about 12:30am because the hotel decided to have maintenance works done at night, and it was too noisy for sleep!
Our/Deb’s alarm went off at 6am and had checked out and were in the hotel lounge by 6:20 for a light breakfast.
From there we went down to the lobby and got a cart to the airport, so much quicker than walking, I think our driver was practicing for the Malaysian GP.
Without baggage it was a simple process, go through security and head to the lounge. We checked to make sure our luggage would be travelling with us, and all was good.
We played a bit of Ingress on the way to our gate, caused a little havoc in game, and were seated on board by 8:35am.
We are heading into the jungle! Continue reading →

Just a quick note for anyone concerned about our safety as things go crazy.

We are both safe and expect to stay that way.
We are not flying anywhere near the areas above.

We are in the Malaysian jungle and our thoughts are with all the innocent people caught up in the conflicts.

Woohoo, we managed breakfast this morning, none of this brunch in disguise, 8:30am counts as breakfast. 🙂

After breakfast we checked out, got a boat to the float plane pontoon at around 9:40 and flew to Male for our connection to KL. Our sea plane / float plane flight took at about an hour. There were 12 passengers on board, a full flight. The inflight service consisted of ear plugs, a cold towel and a bottle of water. Not bad for a 15 seat float plane and short flight
We arrived in Male at about 9:45am (the resort was on Bangladesh time, Male + 1hr, so times can get confusing in transit). Continue reading →

Day 17 24 February
We managed to get to breakfast by around 9:30, so nice to take our time.
After breakfast we walked to the dive shop and pick-up our snorkelling gear, then walked back to our villa to relax.
Around 10:30 I hit the water, and went snorkelling out from our villa. There were so many fish, Needle fish, Unicornfish, Trevally, Parrotfish, Wrasse, Batfish, Surgeonfish, and lots more, so colourful and unafraid of people. I then swam to the seagrass area between jetties 1 and 2. I saw a 1.5m Black Tip Reef Shark, loads of fish again, maybe not the variety as in front of our villa, and 2 Green Sea Turtles – one under a meter and the other well over a meter in length, and two rays – an Eagle Ray and another round headed Stingray that had a deformed or injured tail, or should I say lack of tail, just a couple of fleshy bits where the tail would be. (It could have been a Cowtail Stingray that had lost its tail). Different you may well say. Continue reading →