Going primitive

After almost 6 months of traveling, and the traffic, crowds and general sweatiness of KL our most recent memory, the prospect of kicking back for a week on tropical Perhentian Island was sounding just about right to us.

Deb had warned us that facilities were on the basic side, and they were! But it was exactly what we had been craving. We had been in the African desert just a fortnight ago...it seemed like another lifetime!

While we spent most of the time lazing about on the beach, we also got in some good snorkelling trips which we shared with some amazing giant sea turtles and a couple of sharks (well, shark-ettes...they were smaller than Maddi!)

Sam fights for legroom on the Air Asia flight to Kota Bharu (the port from which we caught a small motorboat to Perhentian Island)

That's what I'm talking about! Perhentian Island was very easy to take.

What we did when we weren't swimming....waiting to eat

There are no cars any where near this place, so the kids learn nautical skills early!

Maddi and Jordy on the 'school boat' - we'd just dropped some local kids off to school