so on saturday (?) soph and i left the cameron highlands and caught a mini bus and a water taxi accross to perhentian kecil which is an island on the north east bit of malaysia. all the clouds that were over the mainland disappeared as we got close and it looked so pretty with completely clear turquoise waters and huge hills covered in forest with white bits of sand around the edge. it was boiling hot and we really wanted to stay on long beach where there are lots of parties as we were getting a bit sick of not talking to anyone except each other. but apparently the whole island was fully booked so i dropped soph off at a cafe and started trekking up the beach to find some beds. eventually after sweating buckets i found 2 beds in the grimmest dorm room in the world. it had mice, cockroaches, ants, various biting bugs, 1 plug socket between 7 that only worked at night, no lock on the loo, no sink, lots of sand...etc,etc. grim. but we booked a bed and planned to move the next day. went and played in the sea which was so warm it was probably warmer than the old cliche of bathwater and we just sat in there for a few hours having a perv at the scenery. at the dorm some of the boys in there invited us out to dinner with them and by staying in that horrible dorm (we ended up staying there the whole time) we got in with a really lovely big gang of divers who we preceded to get hideously drunk with every night. first night we went to mata hari for dinner and then to a beach bar that was really like koh tao where you sit on the sand with little tables and watch locals play fire poi. we were drinking this stuff called monkey juice which was a really sweet rum that got me so so drunk. also had a shisha which was pretty nice. sat there for ages watching all sorts of odd things (detailed in the emails to various people) and then at about 5am we went and jumped off the pier into the water which had loads of phosphorescence, which made all of the water sparkle whenever you moved. soph says i stayed in there for about 40 minutes just watching it as it was so beautiful.
The next day was a lazy beach day, just sitting on the sand and playing in the water. In the evening it was the world cup final at 2.30am, i watched a bit but got really sleepy and knew we had an early start the next day so went to bed about 3.30.
Monday we went on a snorkelling trip which was so so good :) i saw some black tipped sharks, a stingray, some nemo fish and a turtle!! the turtle was amazing it was huge and just didn't look real. Whole day was ace and the water was just so clear, saw so much more than on koh tao or phi phi. although having my back and bum out of the water all day i got so burnt and am still a bit red. That night there was an open mic night at one of the bars and some of the boys sang flight of the conchords songs which were so funny. i also found a mirror so it was the first time id seen my reflection since getting there which i didn't like at all. urm i can't remember what else happened that night so i was probably pretty drunk.
lots of the boys left the next day and i was so burnt i didn't want to go outside much so just hung around the hotel drinking lots of ice coffee and reading my book. in the evening we went to bin tang restaurant which has gorgeous views out over the whole bay and i had a lovely dinner but i was feeling really sick so couldn't finish it. i went back to the room and slept for a bit, but woke up at about 4 when the others came back and we all went swimming in the phosphorescence again. oh it was so good. im going to miss that so much.
we left pretty early this morning and caught various buses and taxis to get us to cherating. i don't think soph likes it much (again see my emails) but it seems lovely to me, even if it is a bit quiet. and it's a lot cheaper - our really nice chalet is cheaper than our 2 dorm beds were. so today we've just been doing washing and stuff and i think we're going to try and do the firefly tour tomorrow evening. but now we have internet again im sure i will update this soon xxxx
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