The next day we started our second workaway experience for the next 2 weeks. We should help building and rebuilding a house for a dutch couple in return we get food and accommodation. We arrived at their house, which was on a hill in the middle of the jungle. We had a nice view over the valley and the mountains. Their house was a palace and it's only the guesthouse. They were busy building the real house next to it.
Overall we have to say that we did not feel comfortable with the people and we could not get along very well. After 4 days it was clear that they too and told us to move out. Although we shared the feelings it still felt like being dumped. Which is of course never a nice feeling. We left and moved to a little guesthouse next to the sea.
Our rental scooter made it easy to explore the island on our own. We were driving up one of the higher mountains of the island, when we spotted monkeys walking on the power lines. The next half an hour we just enjoyed watching the monkeys playing and relaxing on the power lines and hopping into the trees.
One of the 'must do' at Langkawi is the rope-way up the highest mountain. It was really windy when we went up, the gondola was swinging and looking down scared us a bit. But our trust in Austrian designed and built rope-way is big so we relaxed. The view from the mountain was stunning. We could see the whole island and the little islands next to it. We haven't count if we saw all of the 99 islands but we definitely saw a lot of them. In the harbor you could see the big and expensive yachts. Big and fancy resorts on one side of the island, we were tempted to spent there a night.
For Caros birthday we spent a day on a catamaran, cruising between the islands, drinking wine and enjoying the comfort and rest. The biggest surprise was a shoal of dolphins, they were playing just a few meters away from the boot, we could watch them for 15 minutes. We have never seen wild dolphins, this was truly a good birthday present for Caro.
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