I didn’t take notes on this final Langkawi/Datai leg of our holiday. All I wrote in my notes was:
Photos of long-tailed macaque monkeys and great hornbill birds
A few recollections from memory 25 years later:
- The Datai was a beautiful resort, with wonderful food and a top notch spa;
- The weather was not especially good during our stay there – we didn’t see a great deal of sun and there was some rain. Much of the time, however, although cloudy, it was very pleasant for sitting outside and wandering about. We might have found much of the daytime too hot had it been “proper sunny”;
- The staff were delightful. One member of the team named Sandra became “Janie’s George” answering a myriad of questions and sorting out small matters for us with smiles and efficiency;
- Our cottage was an especially popular one with the monkeys that lived in the jungle around the resort. The staff became convinced that we were feeding the monkeys with bananas, because Janie likes to eat bananas herself. In truth we were taking pains to hide any bananas we might have from the monkeys, but they loved our balcony anyway.
The photographs from this part of our holiday are pictures 60 to 82 in this Flickr album – click here or below:
A placeholder piece which shows the full itinerary and has links to the albums of all our photographs for this trip can be found by clicking here or the link below: