Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Pulau Perhentian Snorkeling Trip

 Has this trip to Pulau Perhentian planned months ahead . My first snorkeling trip experience.
April 23 ~ April 25 2016  

By flight we goes with just around 55 minutes to Kota Bharu from Penang 
which save our butts from ache up to 4-5 hours travelling by car .
(Firefly Penang - Kota Bharu 55 mins RM120.00 with return trips)

6.00 a.m at Penang International Airport
Feifei , Sky, & Mandy
 Dean & Denise

 From Kota Bharu Airport , we then proceed to Kuala Besut Jetty with van provided for registration to transfer to Pulau Perhentian. Takes about 60 minutes journey to arrive at jetty.
(land transfer from airport to jetty RM40 with return trips)

We have our 3 days 2 nights trip planned under 
AWESOME SUMMER ENTERPRISE
016- 7897917 , 09- 6974663
terengganuislandtrip@gmail.com

Breakfast at jetty
 Speedboat transfer from jetty to Pulau Perhentian around 30 minutes.

So when we arrive at Sharila Island Resort (pulau perhentian kecil) around 10 a.m for check in,
there wasn't any room available yet at the moment.
So we were bring to their some sorts like store room to left our luggage first and our activities start around 1.30 p.m. 
By then our Captain, our tour guide lend us his room for us to put our belonging before we have rooms.


Equipment is provided in our package.  




 Having our lunch before we went island hopping




Banana Pancake
 ?! hahahaha

checking in once again.


 we had room quite far away from each other
room pictures was actually taken at the third day of our trips, so sorry for the mess
(Sharila resort Standard room Twin Sharing RM438.00 included breakfast)

 The electricity keeps on restart, it keeps went out and came back a few minutes later.
Will have to keep on switching on the air-conditioning.
Same to the water supplies as well. It's terrible enough to keep switching on the electric supply, then happen to the water supply in out our three days stay.
 First incident happen after our first day,
 when we went back to our room for the evening bath after snorkeling.
There wasn't any water available , so we went to the front counter about it.
They closed the water supply at some times to enable water saving and enable it to flow through some times.
It happen then in the next morning before we head out for breakfast and also the evening as well.
We heard from others that this happen to Perhentian Island quite often but not on Redang Island.
Toilet door unable to closed which happened to 2 out of 3 rooms which we stayed.
Room phone was spoiled so we were unable to contact each others. Fyi , the line connections was quite low and the WiFi provided cannot be connected.
 The dining area.

First day, we just snorkeling around Perhentian Island (pulau perhentian besar & kecil)
Have some basic learning on the first site before heading to spot Big Sea Turtle and Coral.




 With our Captain who we called him as A-Lin.

Back to our resort and snorkeling around our chalet
And by the way, Perhentian island is a protected marine park, so fishing, collecting coral are strictly prohibited.

 The clear water~


 With some lucks you may spot some baby sharks and also stingray.


Then Captain bring us to the other side of the island for dinner. Without him , i guess we definitely will not explore this part of the island. The place where it is more happening. Walk through small path, ups and down where you will have to use your phone as torch along the pathway.



  The foods here were ok, but a little pricy.



Then we just walk back to our chalet
 to have some liquor session and some early rest as well because we will have more snorkeling spot to go the next day.



Coming up next : Snorkeling trip in  Redang Island & Lang Tengah