Penang & Langkawi Getaway!

A few weeks back just before chinese new year, I went on a pretty short vacation to Penang and Langkawi. It was a get together trip among my friends from IMU and it seems like it is going to be the last trip with them since some of them are starting the local phase soon and the rest of us are going overseas in the months to come. :( The trip was a total of 4 days and 3 nights, yeah, kinda short. Didn't get to do much actually, more of chilling and bumming around.

Took a flight on AirAsia to penang to meet them. 

The usual plane photo that i always take before my flights

another usual photo I always take while waiting in the boarding lounge. This is in terminal 1 where all the budget flights have been moved to.

The first dish upon arriving at Penang, char kway teow. This is the dry version which is supposedly less oily than the wet ones commonly found in kl. Not a fan of char kway teow so I seriously can't judge if it was really nice or not..hahaha.

Some spa/nail shop along the roads of batu ferringhi. Went there to get our hair braided, but in the end, only 2 of them managed to get their hair braided due to time constrain.

Beauty comes with a price to pay - PAIN.

Next up to braid...

 After dinner, headed to China House, a pretty famous hangout place which sells cakes and housed with a gallery on the 2nd level. 

Tiramisu cake to die for. If I did remember correctly, each slice of cake costs around RM15 but it varies according to the flavors. The price is quite reasonable considering the size of it. We ordered 4 different slices of cake for like about 15 people.

Caramel cashew nut cheesecake which was really yummy too!

Banana turtle torte cake which was damm good also

Carrot cake. Don't fancy carrot cakes, but I heard that it is a very popular choice at this place.

Taking random photos in the gallery upstairs

photo of how the gallery looks like

a view of some cakes from upstairs

this is made up of bubble wrap, interesting uh. If I could, I would have started bursting the bubbles...hahaha.

The tables are covered with paper and boxes of crayons are available on the table for customers to doodle. At the end of the night, I think we left with the most messy table..hahaa.

Guest book on the 2nd level where we left our mark

 Went back to the place we were staying to chill out and play cards. The next day, we were off to Langkawi.   A pity I didn't get to eat the famous 'tissue paper laksa'...hahaha. The name comes about a rumour that tissue paper was added into the soup to make it thick..lol. Probably gonna go back to Penang again for more food, don't know when though.

Drove down to Kuala Kedah to take the ferry to Langkawi which is much cheaper than taking the ferry from Penang itself.

Evidence of deprived sleep

the ferry we were on

Rented 2 cars to travel around Langkawi and this is what happens. This is my second time in Langkawi and this is the 2nd time the vehicles they rented us had to petrol in it. Its like, when we enter the car, the petrol light is already on...wth right. Thankfully 1 of the cars manage to survive all the way to the petrol station, so we filled a bottle of petrol for the other car which died halfway.

Interestingly, we found a very nice open concept toilet which belonged to some restaurant. Pretty dangerous I must say because you can actually step over to the next toilet..hahaha.

Beach photos are always a must, lots of tourists this time round. Didn't get to take much photos because of my laziness and because most of our time were spent playing on the beach..so yeah.

So yeah, this is Langkawi. We stayed at Sandy Beach Resort, booked 2 rooms for yes, that many people....hahaha. But then again, we barely get sleep, so it doesn't matter. The beach is just in front of the hotel, convenience is a plus point! To be honest, I haven't really explored Langkawi. Twice that I have been here, our activities were playing on the beach, drinking, shopping for chocolates and all, didn't do much sight-seeing like all the island-hopping and stuff. But it is definitely a good place to chill, the beach is not that dirty, the sand is fine unlike sentosa's super coarse sand where u just want to die playing beach volley especially when your feet is already burned. Imagine this: burned feet running on coarse sand equals epic killer. With all beach rules, always remember to bring sunblock because sunblock ain't cheap there. I slapped on 2 layers of banana boat SPF110 sunblock but still got burnt a little. Also, beware of jellyfish, around April or so is the peak period for jellyfish at Langkawi. This time there were quite a few baby jellyfish and many of my friends got stung, thankfully I didn't! :) Since chocolates and alcohol are duty free, it is really cheap, like 1 bottle of beer costs around RM3-4...hahaha. If possible, bring your own beach balls and stuff, we regretted not bringing a volleyball and when we went out to source for one, they were selling it for like RM50 for a Mikasa ball which they claim is original but one look at it, does not even look original. So yeah.

That's it about my trip in Penang and Langkawi, nothing much but it was definitely a good get together session after a few months. A pity that we are all heading to different places :( Wishing them all the best and hopefully we will be able to have more meetups like this in future. ♥♥♥