We were up early in the morning - it was hard to sleep when the room was as yucky as it was. We went to the main desk and complained bitterly. Our new room was an apology for the bat cave. It was way over the top - but really a special place.
At breakfast, the hornbills were out in force. The bird below was sitting on the rail of the breakfast buffet patio.
Here's our new view.
The first cottage to Charlie's right was ours. Good grief! We went from yuk to wow in one day.
Once we settled into our new elegant digs, we asked at the desk how to get to see the island. We had signed up for a 'round the island boat ride, but it was seeming less and less like something we wanted to do. The desk suggested we take a taxi round trip. That turned out to be a great plan. We spent two hours, out and back. The time spent mostly at stops. The island is pretty small.
Below are women packing dried fish - one of the main occupations of the island.
Foo Lin Kong Temple seen above. It has lots of very peculiar doo dads around it. Behind to the left was a miniature "great wall of China". It also had dragons, pottery, and miscellaneous odd sculptures.
A Dutch fort left over from the Dutch colonial days.
Downtown Pangkor. A collection of little shops for tourists and food shops for the locals.
These noodle piles were on a side street in "down town" Pangkor. They were about two feet high and at least two feet across. The word in Malay for noodles is Mee.
Charlie and I are learning a few words of Malay Nasi (rice) mee (noodles) goreng (fried) ayam (chicken) awas (caution) sg. (not sure of the original word - but the abbreviation stands for river) Lamak (coconut milk sauce)
We had dinner in the Pacific Cafe (the a la carte restaurant in the resort). Given the fact it was a resort - there weren't a whole lot of choices. After dinner we got a beer in the upstairs bar. For a Muslim country, no one seems off-put by beer and wine around here. There were some singers that were pretty good for a resort on an island in the middle of the Malacca Strait close to no where in particular.
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