We were able to purchase a very cheap airline ticket from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia back in October and our date finally arrived. We chose the weekend after the AP tests were all completed and then we took off. Instead of staying in KL for three days, we managed to find our way to Langkawi Island on the west coast of the Malay peninsula off the coast of the border of Malaysia and Thailand in the Andaman Sea. Our hotel was very nice and pretty inexpensive. The temperature was near 100 degrees during the middle of the day. There were lots of Muslims on vacation here including about 60% of the women wearing full black burkas. There was a sign near the pool that explained what was appropriate to wear in the pool if you were a Muslim woman. We didn't know there was such a thing as a "burkini" until this trip!
View from our hotel window.
Lisa on the beach.
We took a day trip to a national marine park to go snorkeling. An hour boat ride away to a small island with a coral reef. Our boat in in the background in this picture. It was fantastic! We saw all kinds of fish including an elusive but large (3 feet long) porcupine fish and a tiny yellow spotted box fish...and several black tipped reef sharks, the biggest about 4 feet long.
One of the sharks that came very close to the shore, I took the picture from the pier.
Our snorkeling site.
View from our hotel window.
Lisa on the beach.
We took a day trip to a national marine park to go snorkeling. An hour boat ride away to a small island with a coral reef. Our boat in in the background in this picture. It was fantastic! We saw all kinds of fish including an elusive but large (3 feet long) porcupine fish and a tiny yellow spotted box fish...and several black tipped reef sharks, the biggest about 4 feet long.
One of the sharks that came very close to the shore, I took the picture from the pier.
Our snorkeling site. 
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