We planned to go by train, but due to the hassles we might encounter in the 12 hours journey plus around an hour of ferry ride, we finally settle with air transport. one hour, free from getting lost in middle of Kedah and save some energy to play more after that.
i should say, AirAsia’s seat is sooooo much comfortable than AirAsia X’s. what the heck is this man. at least this domestic plane has adjustable seatback and has softer and comfier seat. not fair one.
we started our trip unhappily. we didnt know that the only car rental booths in the airport were before the arrival gate, and all of us walked out without queried for car rental. so after that, only me and ChinHeng went back to the arrival hall to ask for car rental. there were around 10 booths with different company names, but heck i think all of them were under the same big shark company. so we were asking for the smallest car (Kancil or Kelisa) and they claimed that all small cars were out-of-stock and the smallest car left was Hyundai Optima, and the best price given was RM400 for 3 days. we asked each and every booth and they gave the freaking same price lor. and then we got no choice and gonna pay for that already. but out of nowhere, there’s one fella shouting “RM270 Kancil for 3 days, RM90 per day!” to a foreigner. i ask you la, if you were us, what reaction will yours be? so me and CH paused the registration, and asked that bald man. he said he has Kancil at 1st. after that he walked away, came back and told us that he might want to double checked with his colleague bout the Kancil, and when he finished his bloody phone call, he told us that no more Kancil. and RECOMMENDED US CAMRY WITH THE RATE OF RM250 PER DAY. what the hell??????? i told him that we couldn’t afford since we were all students and he freaking told me to use my face to earn money cause i have pretty face sure can get lots of money one. i was too good to not show my pathetic finger to him at that moment. we left his booth, tried to ask other booths, and all of them were so cooperative to turn us down. all of sudden, everyone has no more car to rent to us. worse, one ugly malay woman laughed at us cause we lost the 1st offer from them. bloody genius, no? so we left.
aimlessly, we took a cab to our hotel. good thing is the receptionist was so hostile, and we managed to check-in before 12pm. while everyone else started to get contacts of car rental and finally we got a kancil, RM300 for 3 days. a better deal! after settling down, we went out for lunch at a pretty decent malay stall. cheap and nice food along Pantai Cenang but its kinda hard to reach cause it’s located in an alley between shops.
with the simple Langkawi map we got from the airport, [i forgot where we wanna go at 1st] we accidentally got into the track to Gunung Raya. okay la fine, in between we got lost for few times to find for petrol stations and a few wrong turning. but heck the roads in langkawi are all almost connected so in the end we were still going to the right way. heh.
so 1st stop, GUNUNG RAYA. according to the map, there’s only two reachable hills, one is the cable car one, and the other is Gunung Raya. this is when Google came in handy. before the trip, i actually did some homework - the do’s and dont’s, the places, the food etc. its not on the main attraction list, but we were willing to be adventurous!
boyfriend drove. we were actually quite nervous when there’s only one or two cars drove by, plus there’s a lot of landslide traces. we kept hoping that it won’t rain that day, when the sky was all gloomy.
surprisingly, there’s one hotel located at the summit of the hill. and this is the place we stopped. to be honest, the view below the tower is already very nice, but its not high enough to get the whole sunset view la. so we paid RM10 per person to go up to the tower and yes the 10 bucks is worth the money.
magnificent langkawi view. this is just a part of it, and you can see the whole langkawi from the tower.
playing with reflection. hehe. we waited for the sunset for few hours but the weather wasn’t good. so we left the hill before dark without watching sunset. sayang betul.
dinner, we planned to go to the biggest night market in Langkawi at Kuah Town. biggest kononnya. wikitravel conned me. there’s only around 10 stalls in a pathetic small street. all of them didn’t quite want to trust my source anymore after that T_____T but there’s lots of duty free shops around. went back to hotel early that night, slept early without going to the beach as planned.
day 2 started off with cup noodles bought in convenient store. very vacation feel cause usually i went to family trip, the days when we slept late, cup noodles were the saviors! :) wanted to try on the steepest cable car in Asia, but the boys said its a waste of money cause we had the best view of langkawi from gunung raya already and for sure it will be crowded and expensive. so our plan was to go to the Western langkawi. TEMURUN WATERFALL was our destination since from the map picture, Temurun Waterfall is bigger than Durian Perangin Waterfall. but heck when we reached, this is what greeted us.
a dried waterfall a.k.a. the waterfall sebelum buka paip. ngakngak.
photo credit to google image. where has the water gone???? :( guess this is how the scriptwriter of 2012 got inspired. sigh.
seriously, this is bad. hello people, be alert ehhhhh the earth is dying. T_____T
didn’t stay up long there, off we went to PASIR TENGKORAK BEACH. just opposite the waterfall. nice beach, but the spot we went were too crowded so we just stopped for like 5 minutes. =___________= lunch was KFC with the pretty yachts view around Pantai Kok. KFC cause everyone couldn’t resist the fried chicken temptation. hehe.
went back to the hotel cause we didnt know where else to go other than the beach but the weather was so hot, we then decided to play poker cards in the room till evening.
Pantai Cenang has good sand! seriously this is the 1st time i encountered such soft sand! like you are stepping on foams like that. =________=


heh. i was training him to camwhore. :P you never know how vain the boyfriend can be. ngakngak.
wanted to try on parachute and banana boat butttttttttt we were too late. i want parachutinggg T______T
dinner at Mimi’s Ikan Bakar along Pantai Cenang, recommended by WikiTravel but once again, nothing special there lor. summore the service wasn’t quite good. a bit of racism going on. *shrug shrug*
after dinner, chilled along the beach, gazing at millions of stars. woah blisssss! spent few hours sitting along the beach, chitchatting, playing with sands etc. pure happiness it was. and we went back around 1 in the morning:)
day 3 breakfast was American Breakfast @ The Breakfast Bar, Pantai Cenang. you never know how excited the boys were when they saw eggs! ahhhh i should have captured down the moment. hehe. we went to do some duty free shopping after that. chocolates and alcohols done. tried Kampai and i love it! :) checked out from the hotel and there we started off our journey to the North! :D
Black Sand Beach, there we went!
this is among the bestest beach of langkawi! and don’t doubt its name, cause the sand was literally partially black! aiyar if we can get some shower place, i sure plunge into the sea one. sigh. pantai cenang has no waves, which is kinda potong steam, but here the waves were great!
walked along the beach with the super hot weather without sunblock lotion. we very macho like that! har har.
grabbed some snacks, and off we went to DURIAN PERANGIN WATERFALL since it was still early to catch the sunset. this time, a reallllll waterfall!
its nice, and will be even better without those un-environmental-friendly people behind us there! like seriously, they can just throw whatever rubbishes they had into the water and let them flow downstream. what the heck? plain brainless shit.
see the exhausted face? ngakngak. he drove most of the time:)
around evening, we drove all the way back to Pantai Cenang to catch the sunset! we couldn’t get any sunset on the 1st two days and thank god we saw it right before we left. too crowded the beach. :( and we were cool people like that, we blackjacked at the beach with magnificent sunset view. :D
dinner at Orkid Ria Restaurant, just right beside the beach. chinese seafood restaurant with midrange price. after that, we left for airport.
all in all, a great trip with great companion! :D
p/s: from the reviews from google, most people claimed that the mosquitoes there are very ganas yadi yada, so i bought insect repellant spray. i apply the repellant spray whenever i was going to beaches or hills and i didnt really get mosquito bites. not quite sure if my repellant works, or there’s no mosquitoes around cause other people didn’t get mosquito sting too. :D
p/p/s: this is one heck affordable trip, other than car rental and hotel room, we didnt spend a lot. we skipped all those with entrance ticket fee e.g. underwater world, eagle feeding, mangroove tour, cable car, yet we still get to explore so much in Langkawi. still, there’s some regrets for not trying parachute, not visiting the Summer Palace at Pantai Kok (one of the film set of Anna and The King starred by Chow Yun Fatt) and not visiting the Book Village at the foot of Gunung Raya. like hello? a book village situated among the greeneries in the forest. not tempting enough to have a look? but nobody else wanted to go so we didnt go. nevermind, i will make sure i go there at the next trip to langkawi! :D