Everyone should go to Monkey Beach!

We ponteng school on tuesday to go jungle tracking!!

But of course knowing me and Amanda, we already replaced those classes.

We wanted to go to monkey beach,instead of going there by boat, which is both unchallenging and expensive, we went there by tracking through the jungle. Unlike going up Penang Hill through the jungle route, this route was much more tricky and also dangerous, one miss-step or slip would mean "Bye Bye!" or at least "Ouch!"

Though sometimes assisted by man-made steps,

more than 90% of the track is soil and rocks,

sometimes, there were even a few trees blocking our path, which was slippery and hard to climb over.

We eventually reached monkey beach, which took us roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes i think.

At first, i thought it was going to be boring cause there was no one and nothing there.

But after a while, i got into the beach mood, and it was fun!

I felt a bit dizzy and light headed at first but once i took off my shirt and headed into the water, i totally forgot that i was ever not feeling well, the water was warm and nice!

The reason my friends liked to go there was quite obvious at that time, the sea level near the beach was deep enough for us to dip our whole body in and yet just right for us to stand on. perfect!

It rained halfway through and it was very cold on the beach, with the cold rain hitting our bair skin, but the easy solution was just to stay inside the warm water.

We brought along two volleyballs which were perfect for water polo, and it was extra super fun.

more and more tourist came later that day but mostly by boat.

We went back by boat as the tracks were dangerous cause of the rain. it took just 5 minutes to get back, but also rm50.

I totally did not regret that i went on the trip, even though i had a stomach ache in the morning, i went cause i didn't want to "ppk" my friends and most importantly, my one and only Amanda, and it was a great decision. I had a wonderful day even though i got a little sun burnt.