This is the third installment of my Northern Adventures' blog. It took a bit longer to be written because I was not too happy with it, and I had been re-writing it a few times. Though I am still not too happy with it, I decided to just let it be, and post it.
Day Three and Four
Our last day in Langkawi was a bit mess-up. After leaving our luggage at the left luggage storage in the Jetty Kuah Point, we went to Pekan Kuah to do a bit of shopping. Langkawi Island is a duty free island, so most visitors would take the opportunity to shop while in Langkawi. I decided not to buy bulky items since we had to take a ferry to go to the mainland. So I just bought some batik for my mother and family members.
I thought I would have ample time to enjoy the Dataran Lang - Eagle Square, however, we spent too much time shopping and then once again, the sky decided to open up. My wish to relax at the Dataran Lang evaporated. We boarded the ferry to Kuala Kedah at 5.00 pm. The journey was roughly about 1 hour and 45 minutes.
The journey was monotonous. There's nothing I could do except looking at the blue yonder of the ocean. After a few minutes, even the view looked similar, long stretch of islands and blue ocean. We reached Kuala Kedah in the late evening, and was greeted by magnificent sunset. My sister-in-law's parents were waiting for us. We will be spending the rest of our holidays in the mainland of Kedah.
The next day, we decided to drive to Padang Besar, a well known shopping town bordering to Songkhla Province of Thailand. Padang Besar is a mixture of Malay and Thai cultures. People came from all over Malaysia to find bargain products such as textiles, ironware, jewelries and food.
After spending quite some time in Padang Besar, we decided to drive further up and went to Wan Kelian. Wan Kelian is a small place further up north. To reach Wan Kelian, we had to drive through very treacherous and perilous mountainous road. Wan Kelian itself is nothing much to offer. Our real destination is Satun, a shanty town just bordering Malaysia. Even though Satun is in Thailand, we had no difficulty to walk down to the town. We don't need to produce any identification, nor we were being asked by both border immigration.
Communication with the traders over in Satun was easy because mostly they were able to talk in Malay, though some words maybe a bit different. After spending some time in Satun and spending a little bit on some snacks and souvenirs, we drove back.
On our way back, we stopped for a few minutes to explore Gua Kelam - which can literally translated as Dark (Kelam) Cave (Gua). It's located at a place called Kaki Bukit which means Foothill.
It’s a limestone cave of which a wooded bridge was installed through the cave. We walked through from one end of the cave to another. Though the walk was not too long, it was a bit eerie because of the darkness of the cave; only a few lights were located inside the cave, it was also a bit cold and it was already a bit late in the evening.
After a long day, it's nice when we reached my sister's home tired but happy.
~~~~~ To be continued to Day Five ~~~~~
Comments
Clearer, but could be much/far clearer if you reword it like this: "Though the walk was not too long, it was a bit eerie because of the darkness of the cave - only a few lights were located inside the cave. It was also a bit cold andalready a bit late in the evening."
And, another sentence could have been written like this: "I've rewritten a few of the sentences, which I hope will be clearer. "
@noasl
I'm sure you can get it. I've been trying to challenge you to learn more because you're an advanced learner here. Let's learn together or help each other.
Expector Smith, thank you once again. I've re-write a few of the sentences, of which I hope clearer.
@noasl
Please note the preposition "through" in the sentence. I assume you walked through the cave, but it's quite possible you just walked through the wooden bridge. And, you might have meant you walked from one end to the other end of the cave, if that was the case, you could have used "through which" instead of "of which" in the sentence.
I hope you'll get it!
Hi Expector Smith.
Thank you for pointing out the mistakes. I will try to do the corrections. With regards to the confusing sentence, I know it's a bit confusing because I too not to happy with it. I will re-write the whole sentence to make it clearer.
I know I need to re-visit some of the sentences, and re-write it. Once again, thanks. I really appreciate it.
OHMY AH_TK. LOL. It's not so hard to read the whole 590 words and a few photo, right? LOL.
1. I think you do the hardest part of pretending not to read it.
2. This place is the north parts of Malaysia. First, second and first part of the third day were in Langkawi Island. And this blog covers the mainland states, Kedah and Perlis (Northern states of Malaysia) and a tiny town in Thailand.
3. You need to learn to pronounce Malay words so that it won't be difficult for you. :-P
4. 590 words?I should re-write it and make it 600 words blog. :-P
5. Well, I can add a few more of 'ous' words such as 'stupendous', 'marvelous', 'dangerous' .. hmmm ... what else? LOL
Wow! Another day! Nice shots!
Re corrections:
Can you spot a common learner error in this sentence ", we had no difficulty to walk down to the town."? Tip: You say that someone has difficulty (in) doing something.
And, another sentence "It's a limestone cave of which we walked through a wooden bridge from one end of the cave and came out to the other end of the cave. " Did you find the sentence a bit confusing? Try to reword it.
By the way, "a bit" , "a bit of" and "a little bit" could be a little or a bit tricky, for example, a bit of mess, a bit of work, but a bit strange, or a bit tired.
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I obeyed your order Ma'am cat :( and I read it :(
I have some problems with your blog :(((
1-You shouldn't write if you thought it needs more work ... you do the easy part by writing and we do the hard part by reading :P
2-I didn't read the 1st part ( as far as I remember) and I read half of your blog's 2nd part :D so, I don't know where this place is :p
3-The places in this country have very difficult names, I can't read them :(
4-This blog has 590 words, so reading it is a hard task :p
5-This blog has many words end with "ous" for example: "monotonous" ... "treacherous" ... "perilous" ... "mountainous". This is far than enough. :((((((((((((
Hold on ... for every bad thing there is the full part of the cup, so let me tell you the good thing about your blog.
I like your 3rd pic that has many toys on its right side :p
AH_TK... you know what I'm going to say. :-P Don't be lazy and read! (And that's not joking). LOL :-P
OHMY! OHMY! OMG! Vietttt... if I ever come and visit Vietnam, I don't think I want to go and visit caves, except if I can shop in the caves. LOL. You know I prefer shopping complexes than caves.
Ma'am cat ...
You know what i will say :p
I didn't read it :p and i don't promise you to read it later :p
(jk)
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