Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Living on the edge

Life as a parent consists of many routines and yesterday we decided that we were ready for a real adrenaline kick - cable car ride.

The cable car ride is amazing. You get a spectacular view of the rainforest and an awesome panorama of the Andaman Sea. There are two stations on the way up but we decided to go for the scary top one without wasting our time on the "chicken's stop".







On the top station 708m above sea-level you get a 360-degree panoramic view of the Langkawi islands, Kedah and Southern Thailand. Once we took our photos we continued to the Sky bridge which is an architectural wonder. The bridge is 125 m long and it is a link between the top station and Machincang mountain range. The valley under the bridge is breathtaking but kind of scary. We felt a bit shaky walking on the bridge with Nelly, she on the other hand was very cool. At times it felt like she was a bigger attraction that the bridge itself - let's just say that many photos of our daughter were taken and many hands were shaken.















On our way down while Martin was admiring the solid construction of the cable car, I happened to mention that according to me the scary part is the fact that there is one only cable which keeps the gondolas up and no second security cable!
He looked at me, holding our daughter a bit tighter and said: Thanks for sharing!



To keep the story short we made it back to solid ground again and went for a snack. Four huge glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice plus Nasi Goreng for two (which is chicken with fried rice) costed us 26 Ringgit. That's about 17 PLN or 50 SEK. We've now been here for so long that it acctualy felt a little too expensive.

Check out our daughter entertaining herself and everyone else around while we were eating.