Redang Trip 2009

We went to the very beautiful beach, Redang (Malaysia) over the last weekend. It was a quick getaway for TTS and myself since we have not go for any holidays this year. Redang is located near the northeast coast of Peninsular Malaysia. There are multiple ways to get there but we took one of the longest and inexpensive to get there.If you have guessed it correctly, we took a coach to Merang jetty and it took us a long 9 hours ride!! We could have taken a plane there which is only 45 mins, but the timing of the flight would require us to take 1 more day of A/L. Well since we are planning for our honeymoon this year, every A/L is so precious to us.

We took off from Golden Mile tower at 10pm on wednesday night and reach the jetty only at 7++ the next morning.The journey there didn't felt that long coz we were sleeping most of of the time, only stop by at a kiosk during midnight.When we reach there, we meet up with tts's friend (Alex and Tina), have our breakfast and took the 1 hour boat ride to the island.The waters near the front part of island wasn't that fanstatics, but the one on the other side is so beautiful...

Shortly after we reached the resort, we went out to a small island for snorkelling. The water is so clear, you can see what's in the sea literally! Then we got the resort guys to take pictures for us underwater. One of them took the pictures for us and the other one have to push us all the way down underwater. It's quite an experience actually coz we have to pose for the camera and hold our breathe at the same time.

There wasn't a lot of activities on the island, after the snorkelling trip we went back for archery and then back to the hotel room to rest. At night, we dined at the hotel restaurant coz the meal is already included in the package. Then we went for a walk around the coast line before heading back to the hotel for some card game. Oh we saw a really HUGE lizard there! I believe this is one of the biggest lizard I have seen in my entire life, the size is about that of a miniature Iguana! (I swear, check out the picture!)

On the second day of the trip, we went for snorkelling again as it will cost us RM900 to go for diving which is quite expensive for our budget. This time round we went to another small island, the water here is even better plus The skyline looks so beautiful! (Don't you wish you are there now? :D)

By afternoon when we got back to Redang, we went to the sea again (*Hahahaa* it's all sea but nothing else) So we decided to entertain ourself by taking some more photos. I tried my best not to show the "mini michelin" on my body...:P

I took quite a couple of shots for TTS and his friends, you got to check out the one below!! (I guarantee it will brighten up your day!) :D

Did you know that there was a hongkong movie shot in Redang in 1999? The show starred Sammi cheng and Richie Ren and it called "Mo Mo Tea" Actually I never heard of it until we saw the "Mo Mo Tea house" there. They actually rebuilt the house in year 2003, 4 years after the movie was shot. There's no movie stars now but the house served as a small gift shop which sell daily necessity items and souvenirs.

On the 3rd day, we will need to make our way back to singapore. Well it's kinda short for a holiday but I think it's good enough for me already! I had so much sun tanning when I was there, so I was worried people might mistaken me as a malay when I'm back here :P *Thank god no one said so!" I will definitely recommend Redang to my friends, it's such a beautiful place except that take a plane there next time! The bus ride is certainly way too long for me :(