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What a disaster! We left the hotel around 11.30am to grab a coach to our next destination. The previous day we had met Maria from Sweden and Doris from Austria. Maria suggested that we should visit the Parenthian Islands on the North Eastern coast. After trudging around KL, roaming numerous coach stalls we accepted that the only way to get to the islands was via a night coach which left at 9.30pm. Our time limit meant that this was not worth the travel up there so instead we ventured to an island called Pangkor on the Wast coast. Lumut was the coastal town from where we would get a boat across to the island. Arriving in Lumut at around 11.30pm we walked to the nearest hotel, called Galaxy Hotel, and stayed for one night.
We woke early and got an early boat costing around 10 RM. The closest hotel, Hotel Island, to the port had a really nice simple room where we dumped our stuff and headed for the nearest beach. As on the mainland the majority of the island was covered in a thick, tropical jungle. We noticed that the majority of people we came across were local men. In fact there were not many women at all. In the blistering heat we decided to walk to the beach as it did not look far on the map. This was the beginning of our habit of completely disregarding the approximate scale of the map. Half way to the beach we gave up and jumped in a taxi.
Our morning started fabulously with a dip in the clear waters at Napah Bay. This was a tropical haven. Stunning greenery gave way to a sparkling turquoise sea. But as usual Roisin and i are unable to sit around doing nothing so we decided AGAIN to walk it to the net beach. After asking one of the locals we began what we believed to be a 15 minute walk to Coral Beach. This is where things start to go wrong. We took a pathway which lead to a rocky coastline. It was pretty manageable at first but became gradually inaccessible. After taking a quick peak at the map we thought a small trek through the jungle would lead us to the road on route to the beach....................
to be continued................
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