OUR JOURNEY

An early morning start to see the Langkawi Skycab cable car and associated activities. We arrived early to beat the crowds although unfortunately the strong winds in the morning meant the SkyBridge was closed.

We checked out of the hotel just before lunch and headed straight to the air conditioned shopping centres for some shopping for our upcoming month on Thailand's beaches

We got up, what felt like early, but still didn't leave the hotel until mid morning. We caught a taxi to the base of Penang Hill to take the cable car to the top which is about 800m above sea level.

Our bus was slightly late to leave for Penang and arrived even later - it was the same bus company we used for our journey to the Cameron Highlands which was also delayed.

New Year's Day. The only thing we had planned today was a visit to the Taman Agroteknologi Mardi.

By 7.30am we had packed our bags, checked-out of our room and were having a complimentary breakfast at a nearby cafe.

A slow start to the day. We had left the hotel by mid morning and headed to the Robinson waterfall on the edge of town.

Our taxi arrived on time at 7am and took us back to Pangkor jetty for our ferry trip back to Lumut.

In the morning we walked along Teluk Nipah beach, climbed round to rocks to Coral beach before wading across the submerged sandbank to Coral Island at low tide.

As any good Boxing day should be spent; a lie-in, in bed followed by a relaxing day and too much food.