While at the Last Resort, we happened upon a book that told of waterfalls on the main island that were beautiful, with rocks slick and soft enough to slide down, and, best of all, free. After a gigantic (and free) breakfast at the First Resort, we caught the next (free) ferry and headed out. This was the first and last cheap day we had on Langkawi....
We caught a cab to the falls at the dock. One thing we learned about the cabs in Malaysia was that no matter where we were going, when we asked the cabbie the fare, he would look up, consider the distance, mutter to himself, and announce "RM $36." Every. Single. Time. We agreed on the price, climbed aboard, and headed to the falls.
We were dropped at the base of a hill with a hawker stall, a convenience store, a stand where we could buy a cheesy, overpriced towel, and a flight of steps the likes of which I have never seen. We bought our towel and some water and headed up. After 15 minutes or so, John commented positively on the distance - as in "Hoo boy. Don't have to stairmaster today! Hyuk hyuk." After 30 minutes or so, he likened the distance to climbing to the top of the Washington Monument. 15 or so minutes after that, all I could hear was the faint cursing of a man who did not want to climb one more step.
At the top, we considered where to leave our stuff. We found a nice deserted spot under some trees, wondered why no-one else had picked it, reveled in our good fortune, and headed to the water. We looked up just in time to see monkeys stealing our cheesy overpriced towel and water bottles. We started yelling to scare them away, raced up, chased them off, found a non-deserted spot, and headed back to the falls. I daresay we are in a couple local photo albums....
We had a fabulous day at the falls. We made friends with some Scandanavian college students and egged each other along all day. The water was warm, the company was good, and we had more fun than, well, a barrel of monkeys...
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