Tuesday 10th April 2012 - Langkawi

Tuesday 10th April 2012 - Langkawi I  woke up in the morning and rode my scooter over to rainbow lodge to see if they had rooms. Maria, the spiritual goddess that I met in perhentian, had recommended the rainbow lodge to me previously but I went with Anaz's recommendation instead. When I arrived at rainbow lodge and saw the rooms and the prices I instantly wished I had come here first. In the gecko guesthouse I was paying rm35 per night and was sharing a bathroom with all the other guests but rainbow lodge charged rm35 for a room with your own bathroom. They also had another room for rm60 which was a deluxe room. It came with hot water, air conditioning and a tv - luxuries that I had not had since being away. I figured I was only planning on staying in Langkawi for one more day and would really love a hot shower so I went with the deluxe room. Once I had transported all my stuff from gecko to rainbow I sat in the restaurant and ordered a banana pancake with a side of chocolate and honey sauce. I was about to take a bite when this tall guy appeared and said "Enjoy". He was very good looking and I felt a bit shy so coyly said thanks. He sat down and joined me. His name was Dany. He was from France, 30 years old, a project manager in IT and was on a three week journey to try and change his way of living after a pretty bad breakup. As he put it, it was like we shared the same story. As we spoke I felt like a little girl, my words wouldn't come out properly. He asked me if I was planning on staying in the restaurant or if I wanted to go somewhere else - I said I was probably going to go somewhere else. We began walking and he asked me where was good to go - having just arrived yesterday he hadn't seen much. I suggested the cable car but he had already been so i asked if he had been to the waterfall which was right next to the cable car. He hadn't and said he would like to go there. He didn't have any form of transport and wanted to take a taxi but instead I suggested that he take out a scooter for the day - I didn't feel comfortable having people on the back of my scooter. He told me he didn't have his driving licence with him as he literally came to Malaysia with bare minimum. I told him that I would take a scooter out for him with my licence at a different shop to where I got my bike from. He had never rode a scooter before so I had to teach him how before we took off. My nickname became "Coach". He looked really uncomfortable at first but eventually got used to it despite riding at less than 40km/h the whole journey!  Dany was adamant that he wanted to climb to the top of seven wells and where I had previously thought it was only half an hour to the top, it was actually supposed to be at least an hour and a half.  We climbed the steep hill to get to the first of the seven waterfalls (where I went before). It wasn't so much of a hot day today so the water felt colder than before but we stayed there for maybe two hours. We spoke, we swam, we played. It was really nice. Better than the first time.  We then climbed to the 2nd of the 7 waterfalls - the climb was ridiculously tiring and it was getting late so we quit at level 2!  We walked down and then headed back to Cenang because my bike had to be back today after 4days. We stopped and ate at the restaurant next to the bike shop. The food was so good. I had an Indian pancake with mutton inside. I also ordered a fresh lychee juice which seemed to shock Dany as he had been advised by his doctor not to drink the juice in Malaysia. I had been told the same thing but it was too good to resist - my lack of care for avoiding such things seemed to inspire Dany because he then went and ordered the same thing.  After food we headed back to the rainbow lodge and arranged to meet again in half an hour. We then walked to the beach where the sun was going down (we missed the sunset). It was the most beautiful view - a pink sky that cast a warm and calming glow over the sea and beach. We laid on the beach and spoke for hours until it was dark and the sky was filled with more stars that you can ever imagine.  It was a perfect day.  I was supposed to be leaving Langkawi the next morning to head to Krabi in Thailand and he was supposed to be leaving to head to Kuala Lumpur but we both decided to stay one more day.