Perenthian disaster!
Well I got a bus at 9 and I arrived in
Jerteh at 4. Now the last very in Kuala Besut leaves usually at 4, so
I didn´t have any time to actually get some money out of my account.
Which means 50 for the drive, 20 extra to Kuala Besut+ 70 for the
freaking ferry.
Left with a bit over 100----->Not
good.
I completely forgot that there are no
ATM machines on the island. Well but at least I was on the boat, wow
I tell you don´t ever dare to think your ferry here is the same than
in Europe. It was a tiny boat, which could maximum fit maybe 15-18
people. It was rusty and some of the screws already were lost. So now
you have to drive around 1 hour, sometimes even more, till you get to
the Island.
They drop you of on whichever beach you
want.
When I came off, I nearly lost my sock
and we had to fish it out of the water.
Most chalets and rooms don´t have any
prebooking, which means you pay, whenever you arrive.
That´s why most places are quite
expensive. For Malaysia you will leave a lot of money here.
So I had to take on the first night a
stupid kind of house thing, for 40...Well it has a double bed, so if
you are actually two people it would be ok with the cost.
That´s something else what sucks here,
they don´t have many dorms, so better come in a group or at least
with another person, saves money and trouble.
My chalet was well very basic, the
electricity turned off all the time, so I fixed it with my hairband,
which I by the way forgot there. Darn it. I have to start taking
better care. So far I lost some socks, my shower gel and my razor it
seems. Now the razor really bothers me-.-
Well I had a couple of room mates, for
example this 20cm long gecko(the biggest one I have ever seen) and
some of his little siblings.
Thank good for the mosquite net xD
Well I slept with the light on because
the noises and everything completely freaked me out. Also the big
lizard I had seen earlier, which was at least one meter long.
The toilets were outside and by the way
very, very gross.
I know that may sound picky, but hey
for what I have been paying they could at least clean it a bit or
watch after their place.
I know everybody talks about these
Islands as the prettiest in Malaysia, but I´d don´t know. Even when
you are in a resort, it´s kinda smelly everywhere. Lot´s of dirt
lying around, even more than in the cities.
The beaches itself are nice, but don´t
expect really big or wide ones, and when you want to go swimming well
first find a place around all the little boats lying there.
But after I ate something (again kinda
expensive) and checked online if I could book anything ( Nothing
under 50 Euro a night-.- )
I tried to figure out the rest of my
travel. At first I really wanted to go to Taman Negara, but right now
I am just kinda sick of travelling alone and will just stay here a
bit more, before heading down to KL and enjoying the city ones more.
Well after a weird night when I woke up
I headed straight to the other beach and well there we go, I found a
place to stay for 20 the night, with a/c and the bed is all right.
Just the shower isn´t.
It´s the Shari-La Resort. It has a few
stars, now you would think they would make there dormitories nice to?
Well noooooo way.
There are like I said ok, but still not
what you would expect and the toilets+showers are as gross as the
last once. Seems like they can´t built a decent one, even though
they most likely would be able to, but why spent money on people
right now, that don´t pay much. That maybe more would be coming than
they don´t really take in account here.
So if you want a nice place to stay,
book online and spent the money, because than this islands are
probably a real dream. If you want to save money, come with somebody
else and it would be probably quite nice to have one of the little
houses. They look lovely.
Otherwise get a dorm, and take a diving
course. Those seem to be great and I really wanted to take one, but
there comes the problem. My credit card-.-
Because I booked the hotel for KL and
Romania with my card, there was not enough left till I reached the
limit.
Yeah second hit bottom after I finally
came to like it here somehow. Well I still could have done Taman
Negara, but I am really tired of moving and trying to see as much as
possible. I will now just relax here and not move at all for two
days, besides lying on the beach.
The diving I guess was just not meant
to be.
So whatever, than I just will do some
Yoga on the Beach.
Maybe I will just change a view S$ and
go at least to one nice place, but let´s see.
Right now I am just kinda mad at myself
for miscalculating. If I would have went to Taman Negara straight I
am sure it would have been very interesting and fun, but now I am
stuck here. I still could go and I am maybe considering it, because
if I can´t dive, whatever the 5 Euro I paid are than gone but at
least I would maybe have a good time, but it also would mean another
bus ride, more stress.
I didn´t really eat anything in the
evening. Well whatever and for breakfast I had some noddle soup. Well
the shower is horrible, you can´t close it. But I survived, ate a
noodle soup and went diving.
Wow that was probably the most amazing
thing I did till now. Ok well maybe not most, but kinda close.
First we went to a place with tons of
fish. Imagine swimming around and suddenly being surrounded by a fish
swarm.
The next place was supposed to have
sharks. Well no, no sharks =/ Not sure if I should be happy or sad
about that.
There were many other boats and on one
was a Asian family. The woman didn´t really feel to well, I´ve
never seen anybody puking like that. This whole thing was kind of
disgusting, even when the fish found it great, so I figured I´d
better stay in the boat and save the trip in the water again.
Before we went for lunch we went to one
more place and saw some huge turtles, so amazing I swear they were at
least one meter long and looked soooo cute, but there were so many
tourist that I kind of got bored really fast because it was so
stuffed and you had to be careful not to get a foot or arm in the
face.
So we went for lunch and the family we
went with and another guy had a nice talk. The kids were so cute,
especially the younger one, she just kept talking and talking and
well you all know how childs are, they say the cutest things. The
mother thought my parents would be along, she said she thought I
couldn´t be any older than 17 xD Well should I be now happy about
this or not? ;)
After we ate, I had rice, well the
cheapest ;), we went for another dive at the lighthouse. If you get
the chance to go there, do it. Wow that was just plain awesome. The
rocks are quite high there, so you can see everything up close and
under the little lighthouse are tons of fish, were you can just swim
through. Also you can climb up and jump into the water if you need a
little kick ;)
Just be careful, because the stones are
awful sharp and one of the girls cut herself quite bad on her foot.
Our last stop was romantic beach, were
you will be just snorkelling on the beach, which is interesting too.
There were some kind of big black worms all around on the ground,
also I saw some bigger fishes and all kind of other fish, sea shells
and so on.
All in all a great day.
In the evening I got dressed up a bit,
to take some pictures. I noticed I really get lazy when I am
travelling. Just to much of a bother to put make-up on or dress
nicely. Because if you sweat (which you will in Malaysia) the make up
is gone and comfortable clothes are just way easier.
After that I got asked if I would want
to come along and eat on the beach. Well I was out of money, just had
something like 2 Euro left, that wouldn´t have been enough. But the
girl that asked was my rescuing angel. Ohh my she would laugh if she
reads that. So this way again, thanks for the meal, I will remember
this ;)
So her, she comes from England and is a
hell of a crazy person, but you just have to like her and a guy from
Denmark (I think, hope I am not wrong, would be kinda embarrassing)
went down. The food was awesome, barbecued chicken and veggies and it
was really plenty, so nice to have a full stomach.
Well we talked a lot and nearly got
rained on, but the rain decided not to turn into a tropical storm and
to stop after a few drops, thank god.
Otherwise we would have been soaked.
After heading back to our 10 bed dorm,
I decided to let everybody sleep and not to pack that night, but to
save it for the morning.
Well let´s get packed, I headed back
with the ferry at 12, because I didn´t know how difficult it would
be to get to an ATM and better to early than to late. So again the
long boat trip over waves and whatsoever and chatted with some
Spanish woman who were making a trip, they also guessed my age a
younger, so whatever I guess^^
In town I asked around for the ATM and
got some directions,not without the guy telling me I would need a
taxi, otherwise the way wouldn´t be possible. Now seriously I
declined and it just took me 10 minutes to walk over there. No need
for a taxi. I walked back got myself a drink and headed to the first
restaurant I could find and ate something decent. Had chickenrice,
which somehow became my favourite dish along the road, you never can
do something wrong with chicken rice =)
Well it was just 2 o´clock and I went
and got my bus ticket and the bus would just leave around 8. Great
now what to do? I asked in one of the Hotels if I just could stay and
the lobby and use the internet and the woman was so lovely, she
allowed me to. So I watched some movies, wrote a bit stuff together
till 5. Than I went off and ate something again, sat down somewhere
else and played some games on my cellphone just to get the time
around somehow. Well I managed to do so and chatted with some of the
older man, who thought me waiting and sitting there alone was somehow
funny.
Later before I got on the bus I bought
myself some ice cream, just had a craving for it and it was really
good. Sour apple on the outside and inside was some kind of jelly,
hard to describe.
