A quick update before I hit the sack, the last time in Langkawi for a while.
We rode 75k today, no gunung raya. Went round to the east of the island where the 2007 Ironman went by, which brought back memories of that painful February day.
Made a little detour up to Tanjong Rhu beach, supposedly the [...]
Where were the storms that were forecasted for Langkawi all week? Certainly someone’s got a bad weather meter cos it was scorching out today. How hot? Well I got burnt through my cycling jersey even though I was slathered with sunblock. Ouch!
Undeterred by the heat, we set off at about 11 for gunung raya again. [...]
Sunny weather returned to Langkawi today, our designated rest day before heading back for more gunung raya tomorrow. After breakfast we headed out to the go karting track about 5km away, something Damo has been wanting to do since we arrived.
It’s no wonder he was so keen to kart. He’s pretty damn good at it… [...]
It has been raining all day here in Langkawi, from the time we woke up till now. After breakfast, we just lazed in the room waiting for the rain to stop. Watched bit of jack russell racing, dog surfing, x games and discovery on tv, read some books and magazines and surfed the net. Damo, [...]
Ooh our legs are so tired but we are buoyed by a great sense of achievement having scaled the 881m high gunung raya this afternoon. We had a late breakfast then left the hotel at about 11.30am. It took about 25k of rolling hills to reach the base of langkawi’s tallest peak, which then took [...]