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langkawi

22 May 2014


Our second port was Langkawi, and we disembarked there on an absolutely beautiful day.  The port itself was only a gangplank and a parking lot, but the tour buses were there - faithfully lined up and patiently waiting for their passengers.

We clambered onto a bus with a group of happy people and got a cheerful introduction to the island from our tour guide during the hour bus ride to something more interesting than the parking lot.




We visited a museum, we drove past gorgeous landscapes full of fields and trees and green things growing.  We spent some time at a park on the cusp of the ocean and gazed out at the great blue expanse.



 


We even went to a rubber tree plantation. They grow a lot of rubber trees on Langkawi, and harvest the sap, which makes the rubber.


The plantation worker was surprised we wanted a picture with *her*, but she was such a sweetheart, and Bea was having a good time chatting with her about the technique of cutting just the skin of the bark off to draw out the sap.

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