Langkawi - Time to relax and big decisions!

Every once in a while I find a place to settle down for a bit and just relax. As hard as it is to believe travelling gets pretty tiring.

So I spent a week sitting on the beach

Reading my book

Tanning

This woman was doing the opposite.

Best way she could find to stay out of the sun I guess.

Couple of good skype conversations with my parents I decided 2 big thing

1. I'm not going to go to Borneo. (The island that is home to the west part of malaysia) There wasnt really much that i wanted to see there that i could see other places and it would cost much too much.

2. That I'm not going to get my PADI certification for scuba diving. I've been scuba diving before and even had my junior PADI something rather so I decided i would invest a fraction of the money the PADI course would cost into getting some good snorkelling gear.

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