Friday, December 11 – For our tour of Langkawi island, we decided the most cost-effective way to get around would be to rent a car. We wound up paying too much for a car that was too tiny – the Kancil by Perodua - a Malaysian car company. The Kancil (a type of small deer) was one of the very first sub-compact cars in Malaysia. The joke goes something like this:
Q:How many people does it take to get a Kancil to the Cameron Highlands?
A: 4. 1 to drive and 3 to push.
Believe it. A scooter has more power. And yet, these little cars remain very popular across the country. We’re convinced it’s part of the reason that highway traffic can be so slow and chaotic.
Still, our rental got us around the island okay. We had lunch in Kuah (the biggest town on the Island) and we checked out a couple of other beaches.
We were going to do a hike at the Seven-Wells waterfalls, but it is dry season and the advice we got was that the waterfalls weren’t very impressive this time of year. So we skipped it - although as you can see from the photo on the right, we did see the falls from the cable car.
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