We just spent the last 6 days enjoying Puala Besut, one of the gorgeous Perhentian Islands off the coast of the Northeast Terengganu Region of Malaysia. We took a plane from Penang to Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Terengganu ( $15 total- thanks to Air Asia) a hour long taxi ride, and a 20 minute ferry ride to reach the island. Every minute was worth it. The islands are relatively untouched- with a few resorts/chalets on the island and excellent scuba diving at a reasonable price. ( Hayley is now a certified open-water scuba diver. Hooray!) We saw sting ray, pufferfish, a turtle named tripoid, and at least 15 other varieties of fish in large schools. One of my favorite fish is the docile bumphead parrotfish. ( They kind of float and look like they are thinking ' dooooiihhh loook at the yuuummmyy coooooraalll ). They're kind of the Homer Simpsons of the ocean.
We'll be in Kuala Terennganu for the next two nights and then its off to Singapore for 4 days before we go to Borneo. I just finished reading "Shooting the Boh" which describes an exploratory rafting trip gone awry in Borneo. Oddly enough, the tails of blood-sucking, predatory leaping-from-tree-leeches and swarms of bees has made us only more interested in a rafting trip. Albeit we're only planning a single day trip.
We'll be cutting this blog a bit shorter this time in effort of uploading a few more photos. The internet is quite slow so we'll see how many we can get online in the next 20 minutes or so.
Hope you're all doing great and had a joyous July 4th weekend!
Love, Hayley and Kristian
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