Langkawi was amazing and easily tops the chart for my favourite place visited so far. On our first day we visited the 'underwater world' which is an aqua-marine centre housing sharks, giant turtles, gigantic fish (almost 5ft long!) penguins, seals, starfish, crabs, lobsters (a revealation for Dean!) seahorses, and an anaconda (I never realised these 'actually' existed; thought they were just 'invented' for that film...) The following day we went on a boat tour around the island, where we visited a fish farm and fed the stingrays with dead fish, which was a wierd (and smelly) experience. We also visited a bat cave, and another cave entitled 'crocodile cave' (Not sure why it was called crocodile cave but we didn't see any crocs). Later that day we fed the eagles by throwing meat into the ocean and watched around fifty eagles swoop down to grab the feed, which was pretty impressive. On our final day in Langkawi we went on an island hopping tour, visiting three of the small islands surrounding Langkawi. On the first island there was a big sign warning tourists not to carry plastic bags as the monkeys living there will think you have food and try to take them. Despite this, many people had plastic bags with them and at one point we saw a monkey jump down from the tree and wrestle with a woman for her bag. He got away with her lunch. On the second island there were monkeys on the beach and we watched as one monkey approached the bags of tourists who had gone off to swim in the sea. He unzipped the bag, rooted around and ran off with some sanwiches! In the afternoon we visited the oriental village and took a cable car, which went 700m above sea level, giving us excellent views of the whole island. We also visited a rabbit and deer sanctuary, where I got to feed a 5 month old fawn his bottles of milk! Today, we visited Lagenda park where we saw (horror of horrors!) a crocodile! It was about 1 metre long and had slithered out of the lake towards some reeds. It was an amazing sight (hence, one I witnessed at a great distance mum!) and I think I just managed to capture it on the camera (by zooming in of course Mum, cause we didn't go too near remember). I think it was only a baby anyway. This afternoon we travelled by boat to Penang. On arrival here we took a taxi (man on a bicycle pulling us along on a cart; they do have wierd modes of transport around here!) On our way to the hotel we saw a group of Japanese tourists all pointing their cameras at us. I wondered what the big attraction was until I realised that we were it! They chased our taxi/cart/bike through the street, and I even heard one of them say "Wow!". Two minutes later another group did the same thing! guess they're not too used to westerners! Well, bye all Claire x