CM#9 Malaysian Beaches - Tanjung Rhu
From the archives comes this gem of a clip taken on Langkawi Island, Malaysia, May, 2005. This was our first full day on the island, and we hired a car to take us to the points of interest. The Island was pretty small, but it had some wonderful scenery. The best view by far was this beach, called Tanjung Rhu. It looked like something out of, well, The Beach (I know, wrong country, but if you squint, you can actually see Thailand from that very beach). Pristine white sand, forested islands… There was noone there, maybe one or two other couples. This was more due to the fact that only 5 months had passed since the tsunami, as the beach was bracketed on both sides by fantastic and expensive looking 5 star hotels.
The problem was that we were paying our taxi driver by the hour, and so after a stroll and some photos, we were off to the next stop on the tour, something I already can’t remember. I really wish we had rented our own car. But all’s well. The taxi driver also dropped us off at the Night Market, where we had I believe the most pleasant afternoon in Malaysia in the company of a group of local kids. We most likely would not have found that on our own.
Salamat datang! (That may mean “good afternoon”…)
CM #9 Tanjung Rhu in Langkawi, Malaysia
Malaysia Trip 2005 Photo Album