More adventures in langkawi

Our last chance for an update for at least 5 or 7 days. Off to KohLiPe tomorrow 6/5/06 by boat from Langkawi quite expensive RM100 each but we were told it's worth it, only to find out that it's the end of their season & everything closes on the island by the 10th May and our last chance to get off the island, so we're lucky to fit it in & will only be spending 4 nights there, but that should be ok. It will be interesting to see if there are other tourists still around or we might have the place to ourselves, but lucky we found out about that bit of info before we got stuck on the island!!!
Another day of fun riding around on the scooter! We got to do a bit of touristy stuff today, went on an increadibly high cable car up the side of the mountain to overlook the bay & cluster of islands(there are 99 exotic tropical islands in total). And a beautiful clear day it was, until we got to the top & the clouds came over & wouldn't go away!!! Just our luck, we waited about an hour & finally gave up, so we have photos of fog! We did cross the suspension bridge which was an amazing feat of engineering & architecture & quite scary, so was the cable car ride, so high & a little windy. We did get to climb the 600 steps to the seven wells which was pretty good once you got there sweaty & hot.
These Malay people amaze me with their scooter riding, most without helmets, wearing sandles, thongs & even dreeses & you should see the families, kid on the front, dad driving, kid in the middle, mum on the back holding the baby on the side & the kids often don't wear helmets. There seems to be no laws, young kids drive them with their sister/brother on the back & they carry all sorts of stuff loaded up & hanging over the sides. They seem to have their own road rules, driving on the wrong side, turning anywhere, crossing each others path & you hardly ever see the police. Don't worry we are very slow & safe drivers, but I wonder whether Kyle should be driving without a licence??? he doesn't mind though & is a pretty good driver(of course).
We've swum in healing waters naked & traveled as much of the island as time permitted, but we didn't get to swim in the sea, too busy riding. Keep that for the next spot when that's all there will be to do!
Gotta Go chat when we get back from KohLiPe Chao.

(mumsy with the fantastic view in the background from the top of the cablecar mountain)

(skinny dipping in the sacred healing waters)