Our place

Our guesthouse in Cherating

After a shocking night's sleep constantly itching, we checked under our sheets and found many bed bugs stains on the mattress! So we went and spoke to the owners and kindly they moved us to another room a little nicer for the same price without any itchy friends in the bed. I suppose we can just consider ourselves lucky that we haven't come accross them sooner on our travels, or maybe we have but just never noticed and written them off as mosquitoes.

Ours is first left

The chalets in Cherating

We then spent the day on the beach at a cute beach bar completely chilled.

written by  chrischarly on April 13, 2011 from Kampong Baharu Cherating, Malaysia
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'Don't Tell Mama's' Beach bar

Chilling and reading

James and Harry playing pool

Nothing entirely memorable happened today but it was roastingly hot, so a good excuse to spend the day in a beach bar!

written by  chrischarly on April 14, 2011 from Kampong Baharu Cherating, Malaysia
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The beach

Chis and James far out but still not deep

An evil looking cat called one foot

The dog that followed us home

Chris' shadow and a motorbike on the beach

Full after our dinner

Our last day on Cherting beach so once again we made the most of it and enjoying the sunshine and the marathon walk out to deep water.

written by  chrischarly on April 15, 2011 from Kampong Baharu Cherating, Malaysia
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Us in the car from Cherating to Merang

To get there we took a car to Marang and then a Ferry across.

Graham, Harry and James

Getting wet on the boat

The island looked a little like a smaller version of Tioman. Once there Chris and Graham left Harry and James and myself in a restaurant whilst they went searching for some accommodation. Of course, they took about 2 hours longer than they should've stopping for obligatory beers along the way. They found us a lovely little place right on the beach just a little over budget but worth it, and straight away we found some snorkelling gear and headed off to enjoy the lovely warm water!..

written by  chrischarly on April 16, 2011 from Marang, Malaysia
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The beach where we snorkelled

This morning we woke up and walked 2 beaches away apparently with the best snorkelling. And to be fair it sure was fantastic, with some amazing coral and fishies. Ther are supposed to be loads of ssharks swimming around and we are desperate to see one, if not more, but as yet our luck hasn't been with us. Everyone else that seems to be going out finds at least one, but not us just yet!..

All smiles after snorkelling

The beach

Poor Chris woke up today with bad stomach cramps, so we didn't do a great deal today as I wouldn't let him go in the sun or sea whilst he wasn't feeling well. So we instead chilled and read books whilst dosing Chris up with the tasty rehydration sachets listening jealously to all the tales once again of people seeing many sharks, but not us :(

The view

But then again, I can think of worse places to be chilling and reading!

written by  chrischarly on April 18, 2011 from Pulau Kapas, Malaysia
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Nice sunset from our beach on Kapas

Our lovely beach

More Kapas Beaches

Today Chris was feeling a lot better so we went out snorkelling again determined this time to see a shark... We were in fact in luck and we managed to see the back of one swimming away from us! Unfortunately, we never got the chance to see its face but it was unquestionably a shark either way! But it was so quick so we didn't have time to be scared, just happy that we had finally seen one; even if it was just its tail!

written by  chrischarly on April 19, 2011 from Pulau Kapas, Malaysia
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Another amazing Kapas beach

Our private beach on Kapas Island

This morning we woke up, packed, and took the Ferry back to Marang before catching a bus to Terengganu before catching another bus to Kota Baharu.

Leaving lovely Kapas

El' Capitano

Clear water just off our beach

Gemas Island off Kapas

Leaving lovely Kapas

We decided to go to Kota Baharu to get on the jungle railway the next morning, even though we would be flying straight back up there in a few days when we have met Haze, Neil, and Reggie. Then again, it seems we just love travelling around everywhere, and by looking at the map of Malaysia that we have travelled so far on this blog; it seems like going in circles seems to be our preferred route!

written by  chrischarly on April 20, 2011 from Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
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Here it comes

All over the internet everyone had raved about 'The Jungle Railway' that you can take from Kota Baharu straight through to Singapore, including many travellers who claimed it was the highlight of their trip to Malaysia, so we were determined not to miss out!

Charly waiting for the train

So we woke up at stupid-o-clock and caught a taxi to the train station. We decided not to go all the way to Singapore though as it would've been pointless and get off at Gemas as we would have gone through Taman Negara already which is the famous jungle in Malaysia.

On the Jungle Railway

It was a 10-hour journey but to be honest was an anti-climax; very over-rated! Pretty much all you could see was dense forest and yes, it was luscious green everywhere, but that was pretty much it and we did get a little bored and as everyone except us slept pretty much the whole way, we think they felt the same!

Another rock in the jungle

Another brown river

A bug that chased Charly

Nice brown jungle river

More jungle from the train

More jungle from the train

Nice view from train

The jungle view from the train

Once we arrived in Gemas, we had to take another train to Tampin.

A nice simple map of Malaysian penninsula

This wasn’t a long journey but I did however manage to break a new flat screen T.V by putting on my backpack whilst leaving managing to co-inside with the same time the train decides to break, so I fell backwards on to it hearing a loud, 'POP' sound. "Oops" was all I managed to say in response and myself and Chris quickly jumped off the train and ran around the corner! After a speedy 10-minute walk to find a bus to take us to Melaka, we got on easily and without hassle on an ultra-cheap local bus ride. However, things obviously weren't going to be that easy as half way the bus driver chucked us and the 3 other passengers off the bus in the middle of nowhere at a bus stand saying the bus wasn't full enough for him to continue, so he was going home! We couldn't exactly do much about that so we did as he asked and waited for another! Around 20 minutes later another local bus did arrive and we were so pleased to arrive in Melaka, but not where we hoped it would drop us, so after looking for yet another bus, we gave up and paid for a taxi. Accommodation wasn't cheap and after looking around a few, we chose to splash out and stay in one for £10 a night, which is in fact luxury for 2 nights, and with air-con! Then finally, after 14 hours of travelling we went exploring around Melaka.

written by  chrischarly on April 21, 2011 from Kota Baharu, Malaysia
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Old Portuguese ship

A Famosa Fort

Chris showing off his cannon

Not sure what she's trying to do here ?!

A' Famosa in Melaka

Christ Church since 1753

Funky rickshaws

Our lovely guesthouse

She was late to setup, but pushed through the crowds

Jonkers Walk

And Chris finally decided to get his hair cut!

Chris after his haircut - nice look !

Good Friday celebrations in Melaka

Melaka at night

Famous Jonkers walk in World Heritage city Melaka

written by  chrischarly on April 22, 2011 from Melaka, Malaysia
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