A backbreaking 3.5km trek to Monkey Beach

[Dillinger]

First of all, you have to get yourself to the National Park in Penang. The park is free, but you have to register your name and time you arrived, probably incase the monkeys or snakes get you.

You can get a boat straight to Monkey beach from the national Park for a paltry 40 ringgit(400 baht) that is for the boat, not per person..
Or you can nearly kill yourself carrying a 16kg toddler on your shoulders up and down the inclined edge of the jungle and probably not walk for 3 days.

Anyhow here's the views

HERE'S DILDO !!


There's 2 rope swings as soon as you enter the park

[nigelandjan]

555 ^ WTF ??? where is she going ?

[Dillinger]

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Photobucket is playing up now



Right that's enough of me tossin aboout

[Dillinger]

I love these Sea Eagles. So Majestic. I gotta get that zoom lens for my camera

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[Cujo]

So where's the monkeys?

[Dillinger]

[Dillinger]

So where's the monkeys?

Monkeys are very rare on Monkey beach if you read the reviews on trip advisor.
However we did see some, Be patient Koojo I do have a pic on the only Monkeys we saw on the trek. This photobucket is taking an age today.

Further down the trail, I was in no shape for walking up a lighthouse. That Kerachut beach is meant to be OK too. But that's a good long walk, and maybe why it has red arrows

[Dillinger]

This is the kind of terrain you have to deal with, up then down, up then down all the way

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More terrain

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If you look at the foliage top right, thats where we walked from, behind there

[nigelandjan]

So where's the monkeys?

If someones gonna run a book ,, I,ll have a fiver each way on the second pic

[Dillinger]

[Dillinger]

If someones gonna run a book ,, I,ll have a fiver each way on the second pic

Oi, get over here in October for your visa run.

Lets see how strong that creaking rope really is

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What's the odds on stopping for a shit in the jungle, wiping your ass on a banana leaf then rounding the corner to this ?

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So where's the monkeys?

If someones gonna run a book ,, I,ll have a fiver each way on the second pic

"Monkeys" (plural), I can only see one there.

You owe me a tenner.

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What's the odds on stopping for a shit in the jungle, wiping your ass on a banana leaf then rounding the corner to this ?

20/1 I'll put Nigel's tenner on it.

[Dillinger]

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Having just looked at that sign post again, I noticed there are distances on there and I see Kerachut Beach was less of a walk than Monkey Beach. Bummer




Oh well, this is a map of the route, and at this point in the thread we have just come around the first nook

[Dillinger]

So, this is looking back, on a beach I don't know the name of

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A forward view

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We could have jumped on this boat, but having walked this far, i wanted to finish it by foot