Kuala Lumpur to Perhentian Islands - Panarama Bungalows
We took an Air Asia flight at 7:40 am to Kota Bharu. We were fortunate to meet up with a nice French couple who had already booked a taxi to Kuala Besut, the ferry terminal. We shared the cost and found that we could take the same ferry boat as them to the island. We boarded immediately and were on the island by 11:00 am. The French couple, Matthew and his girlfriend, were living in Kuala Lumpur. Matthew had been offered a job in Kuala Lumpur from the company he worked for in France and accepted a two-year assignment. They had been there for three months and already had taken short trips to Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. They were going to the Perhentians for a long weekend.
On the smaller of the Perhentian islands, Perhentian Kecil, we ended up staying at Panarama Bungalows the first night. The room included a fan and dinner for both of us, but not breakfast. Electricity was on from 7 pm until 7 am and there were no electrical outlets. This is problem for charging camera batteries and for using the computer, so we moved the next day to a place that had 24-hr. electricity and an electrical outlet. It also had air conditioning, which was very nice, especially when working on the PC. The bungalow, Moonlight, was cheaper, but didn't include dinner.
We checked out Spice Divers. They had been recommended to us by Matt from Trawangan Divers in Indonesia. The girl he mentioned, Cindy, was there and very spunku and helpful. She's originally from Calgary in Canada. We decided to do a dive the next morning with Spice.
That eveing for the "included" dinner at Panarama you could choose almost anything on the menu, which was kind of cool! I had the "barbeque" which is popular option at most of the restaurants, choice of chicken, squid, prawns, King Fish, Barracuda, or Blue Marlin, choice of rice, baked potato, mashed potato or roti canai, and it included a simple salad, fruit. You had you're choice of sauces for the main entree, including garlic butter, curry, coconut, pricek (Mayay spicy sauce), peanut sauce and black pepper. I tried most of them at one time or another and they were all good. Roti canai is a fried doughy pancake-like thing, usually two of them, served with a side bowl of curry sauce for dipping. It was very good and quite cheap. We often ordered it and shared it with others as an appetizer.
We took an Air Asia flight at 7:40 am to Kota Bharu. We were fortunate to meet up with a nice French couple who had already booked a taxi to Kuala Besut, the ferry terminal. We shared the cost and found that we could take the same ferry boat as them to the island. We boarded immediately and were on the island by 11:00 am. The French couple, Matthew and his girlfriend, were living in Kuala Lumpur. Matthew had been offered a job in Kuala Lumpur from the company he worked for in France and accepted a two-year assignment. They had been there for three months and already had taken short trips to Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. They were going to the Perhentians for a long weekend.
On the smaller of the Perhentian islands, Perhentian Kecil, we ended up staying at Panarama Bungalows the first night. The room included a fan and dinner for both of us, but not breakfast. Electricity was on from 7 pm until 7 am and there were no electrical outlets. This is problem for charging camera batteries and for using the computer, so we moved the next day to a place that had 24-hr. electricity and an electrical outlet. It also had air conditioning, which was very nice, especially when working on the PC. The bungalow, Moonlight, was cheaper, but didn't include dinner.
We checked out Spice Divers. They had been recommended to us by Matt from Trawangan Divers in Indonesia. The girl he mentioned, Cindy, was there and very spunku and helpful. She's originally from Calgary in Canada. We decided to do a dive the next morning with Spice.
That eveing for the "included" dinner at Panarama you could choose almost anything on the menu, which was kind of cool! I had the "barbeque" which is popular option at most of the restaurants, choice of chicken, squid, prawns, King Fish, Barracuda, or Blue Marlin, choice of rice, baked potato, mashed potato or roti canai, and it included a simple salad, fruit. You had you're choice of sauces for the main entree, including garlic butter, curry, coconut, pricek (Mayay spicy sauce), peanut sauce and black pepper. I tried most of them at one time or another and they were all good. Roti canai is a fried doughy pancake-like thing, usually two of them, served with a side bowl of curry sauce for dipping. It was very good and quite cheap. We often ordered it and shared it with others as an appetizer.
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