I had optimistically bought a hotel stay and then air ticket to Langkawi back in 2020 and had to keep deferring my travel plan no thanks to the pandemic (with Omicron currently raging, I don’t think we can categorise it as endemic). After discussing with my friend, we decided to go there during Chinese New Year and we managed to change our flight tickets without any extra charge (thanks, MAS!). I then informed the travel agent but early last month, she informed that the hotel wanted to impose surcharge as it would be peak season. She had told me previously it’d likely be RM100/night so I was not at all happy when she informed that the hotel wanted to impose RM200/night. I told her I could book another accommodation with that amount of money. And I managed to book a room at the organisation’s resort. Ha! I could shop with the savings!
On Federal Territory Day (happy birthday, KL!) and the
first day of Chinese New Year, I left home pretty early as I wanted to catch
the 09:00 bus from Terminal Bersepadu Selatan. I reached KLIA before 10:00 (the
bus headed for KLIA first) and was surprised to find KLIA was relatively
deserted. The flight took off on time at 12:35 and we landed an hour later.
Bags were quick to come out and we ordered Maxim car to the resort. We managed
to check in on arrival (check-in time is actually at 16:00), alhamdulillah.
Langkawi is in the midst of months-long drought and
it was hot and bright then so we decided to rest before venturing out. We left
at around 17:30 but the sun was still bright and intense then. We had dinner at
a food truck area. Mine was just edible. I left Anita and went to walk around Cenang
area. I’m sorry to say that it was not clean, what with the dry leaves lying
unswept, dust and sand, and rubbish thrown without care. I went into many shops
to browse the chocolate prices and offerings. I wanted to watch the sunset but
there were too many people so I didn’t stay long.
I turned back and walked to Aseania Resort before
returning to our room.
On Wednesday morning, I went for a morning walk by
the beach and came back with a handful of seashells. So many and so much bigger
than any other beaches I’d been to! I then went to find breakfast. I bought
some local desserts and had a bowl of noodle soup before returning to our room.
My friend wanted to go to Kuah but after thinking about it, I decided to stay
in.
I went out and braved the afternoon sun after 16:30
and walked up to a second-hand bookshop and left with two books. I had almost
finished the thick novel I brought and didn’t want to spend the flight and trip
home without reading anything, hence the purchase. I then went to find a massage
place and finally had a massage but it was disappointing. And I couldn’t tell
the masseuse as she was Thai and couldn’t speak Malay or English. I went to
find dinner and after dinner, hurried to The Zon. I was only aware of the lightning
and thunders then. According to Met Malaysia, it was due to rain the following
day and not that evening.
I did a quick supermarket sweep kind of chocolate shopping
(good thing I had browsed the evening before!) but when I came out, the rain
had fallen. Torrentially. So I went back into the two shops and bought more chocolates
while waiting out the rain. Thankfully, the rain had slowed down to a light
drizzle within half an hour so I hurried back to our room.
On Thursday morning, I went out for a morning walk
again along the beach and managed to get more seashells. Alhamdulillah. We
checked out at noon and booked Maxim car to the airport. We had lunch at the
airport before going through security check.
I don’t think my next visit to Langkawi will be anytime soon. It’s much too hot for me.
