English: Amazing sunset at Cenang Island, Langkawi. The best time to view sunset is 7 pm local time. http://myloismylife.blogspot.com/ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

LANGKAWI TO PENANG ISLAND BOATING – Malaysia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Langkawi (Photo credit: Ravikiran Rao)

We left Penang, Malaysia, from  Georgetown port and took the ferry to the island of Langkawi, Malaysia.

Open this link for for some amazing photos of Langkawi, Malaysia. 

We did not look at the Wikitravel link for Langkawi, so were not prepared for the extreme cold of the air-conditioning on the ferry; be warned! Alf eventually resorted to walking up and down the stairs to generate some heat as  going out on deck, where it is warm, was not allowed. The journey passed fairly quickly as we exchanged  travel tales with a lovely couple from Manchester, England who were about our age. The other problem with arriving by ferry in…