KL Holiday (again!)

After spending a few short days in Langkawi, we flew back to KL Malaysia to finish off our holiday.  We have been here many times but we still go here since its the shortest and enjoyable trip to go to apart from KK.  I enjoyed the city as well and the shopping is great.  The fact that the money exchange is lower, makes the trip always special :)  I love it that when we were there, the exchange was B$1.00 is equivalent to RM2.43.  Nice!

Hubby took lots of pictures as usual but I am gonna post just a few.  And I am not going to chronicle every day we were there because I feel its just a repetition since we've been here before so many times already.  Although this time my brother, his family and my parents tagged along.

Another best thing about this trip was the  place we stayed in.  Its enormous, very clean and beautifully decorated.  Its all good and we didnt regret stayed here because the place was sparkingly new and newly renovated.  You should see it to believe it how spacious the apartment is.  And its getting popular by Bruneians since we met so many Bruneian there.  Although I must say they should look into renovating the corridors and lifts now since they were really run down and old.  And once that is done, the apartment will be perfect!

I tell you what.  I think I will create a separate post just for the apartment, just to show how much I like it.  So I can show every bit of the rooms, corridors and kitchen.  Although its a shame we didnt take any picture of the corridors and lifts.  That would have been a good comparison, the old and the new I mean.

Anyway, here are some of our pictures taken during the trip so enjoy....

During our stay in KL this time around (in March), the city was buzzing with F1 activities.  The replica of the F1 cars were everywhere!  And there were concerts, competitions and adverts all over the place to promote the F1 in Malaysia.  And its kind of too much for us, since we were not really a big fan.

Langkawi Holiday

Spent 3 days in this island with my hubby, my daughter, my parents, my brother and his family.  Langkawi is much quiter than KL but nevertheless we enjoyed our stay here.  I know after doing some research via the internet Langkawi has lots of attractions to offer although we didnt get to see much of it except the Dataran Lang and Oriental Village due to our short stay here.

Food wise, so easy to find places to eat.  Restaurants and gerai were everywhere!  Not so hard at all.  Except most food were spicy and hot but we tried to look for milder ones.

Taxis were a bit hard to find so we opted to hire a van since there were 8 of us.  We hired a van from the airport at a cost of RM250 for 3 days, with the RM50 refundable at the end of our stay.  The van was a bit run down but it was ok for our short stay and we managed to move around and went places with the van.  My brother did all the driving and its so convenient that we didnt depend on taxis to go places.

We stayed at an apartment called Suria Century Condominum, 3 rooms with a side view of the ocean,  Its quite reasonable and the apartment was right at the centre of Kuah Town.  It was ok but I thought  the apartment was a bit run down and needed a facelift and tender loving care.

The weather was really hot and we tried to shield ourselves from the sun most of the time.  So drinking plenty of water is a must here.

We flew using AirAsia and caught a connecting flight to Langkawi on the same day.  The flight was right on time so we were not worried about being late for the Langkawi flight.  We had ample time to rest, had lunch and wandered around at the LCCT.

Us at the LCCT, hubby took this picture

On our way after collecting our luggages

At the taxi or van for hire counter

Boarding into our hired van

This is the living room of our apartment

From the balcony of our apartment

Our first night at Langkawi we went and wandered around Kuah Town looking for a place to have dinner and found this gerai.  The food was awesome although a bit too hot for our liking.  The gerai served seafood and other menu which was about right for us.

The gerai where we had our dinner

Sambal udang, yummy but too expensive

Ikan 3 rasa, so heavenly...

Us enjoying our food

We only had one full day at Langkawi so we planned to visit Oriental Village today.  The place was about 30 minutes from our apartment.  So many things to do here and the most famous one was the Langkawi Cable Car although none of us wanted to try it out, except hubby and my daughter and because they were outnumbered, their ideas was cancelled hehehe.

The cable car was so high, it goes up the mountain and there was even a sky walk there.  We ended up doing some shopping here.  We wandered around until lunch time where we had lunch at one gerai by the roadside.

Breakfast at the apartment

At the main entrance of the Oriental Village

The map

Thats the cable car!  Do you see it?  Its so high.............

Some ice cream to quench the thirst

In the afternoon we went to Dataran Lang.  I guess this is the most famous man made attraction of Langkawi which featured a huge statue of an eagle.  Although when we went there the place was actually under renovation!  And its kind of deserted except for the eagle which can still be visited.

We had such a short time in Langkawi but at least we did get to see some of Langkawi attractions.  The day flew by so quickly and the time had come for us to leave.

View at dusk from the main door of our apartment

Our last breakfast before leaving Langkawi

At Langkawi Airport, we were leaving for KL

Playful trio.  Guess which one of us was using fake phone???

Arrived in KL

We continued our holiday to KL and will update soon.