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Sorry for the lack of notes  We left The Aryani Hotel, Terengganu just in  time ….they had run out of wine! Would you believe it … a hotel that had run out of wine.

Also found out that there are no crocodiles in Malaysia. What we saw must have been an Iguana.

We have just completed 4 nights in a great hotel and have now arrived back on KL before we move on to Tioman Island tomorrow morning. The great hotel was the Tanjung Jara  about 50 kilometres south of the capital of the Terengganu region of Malaysia. We transferred by car – a 2 hour journey which had me in agonies for the first hour because I thought the taxi driver was going the wrong way! There I was thinking that we should be going South and instead we were going North. Gina seemed to be very happy about the way in which we were going. I couldn’t understand it. We were going North to a place that should be South of where we last stayed. The sea was on the wrong side of the road! Hell. It took me an hour to get the courage to mention this quitely to Gina…..’I think we are going the wrong way’. ‘Of course not ‘ was the quick reply ‘Whats wrong with your sense of direction?’ The result was, as expected …we were going in the right direction. I had not realised that when we arrived at Terangganu we drove North for our first hotel. I thought we had driven South. It was dark , and raining .. thats my excuse.

The last four days have resulted in knee injuries to Gina and sunburn injuries to both of us. YES..sunburn. We have had no daytime rain for six days. The knee injury was due to a slip on some steps leading to our luxury bathroom (rub it in) the sunburn was due to a days snorkelling on a Jurrasic Park type island where we chased a few turtles and met Nemo. Yes Gina has snorkelled. And she loved it, just like a duck to water. I spent most of my time trying to catch up with her as she raced from one place to another. The unfortunate aspect was that we forgot the suncream so both of us are suffering rather badly today. We have both agreed that we will go back to the Tanjung Jara resort and it didn’t run out of wine.

Tioman here we come. Here are some videos and pictures.

Firstly a sea slug that I found that actually moved. You can just see the black feet on the right hand end of the thing.

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This is a few seconds of a turtle I met.

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Guess who this is

Our beach

Our room

Our room