{"id":1180,"date":"2009-07-05T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/petitesbullesdailleurs\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2018-11-07T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T18:52:51","slug":"geekette-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/geekette-on-the-beach-20090705\/","title":{"rendered":"Geekette on the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening on Perhentian Besar. I am not the only \"geekette\" to take a computer... Around me, lots of people are typing on Facebook or downloading pictures on their laptops.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>At the end of the world but connected!<\/h2>\n<p>My diving buddy, Mandy, a German living in Japan for ten years, just bought a nice MacBook Pro, which made me miss mine. The night before last, we transferred our pictures from one computer to the other, while waiting for our meals.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Geekettes on the beach.\" href=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_8981.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1181\" src=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_8981.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"468\" height=\"319\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I don't know who, from Bettina (another German woman found by chance here, two years after our meeting in Sulawesi) or from Aziz, the king of the barbecue at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mamaschalet.com.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mama's<\/a> ( the famous little restaurant next to Watercolours), took the photo...<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The king of the barbecue is Aziz! (Mama&#039;s Cottages, Perhentian Besar)\" href=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_8984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1182\" src=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_8984.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"468\" height=\"295\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recommend this address if you are staying at Paradise Beach. The basic bungalows at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mamaschalet.com.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mama's Chalets<\/a> are cheaper and better (no adjoining rooms and electrical outlets inside) than those of Watercolours-Paradise. And the food is really good.<\/p>\n<h2>Beaches almost deserted<\/h2>\n<p>Today was my last day in Perhentian Besar.... Already! No diving today, as I have to fly to Borneo tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I took the opportunity to walk on the other side, in the south of the island. I bravely crossed a small part of the \"jungle\", in flip-flops and sarong (without getting any mosquito bites, I even met a monitor on the way!), to reach the beach of Cozy Resort and Abdul Chalets.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The beach in front of Abdul&#039;s Chalets.\" href=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_9075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1183\" src=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_9075.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"468\" height=\"290\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Behind (this is<em> \"after the last coconut tree, on the left of the rocks<\/em>The waiter at Abdul's told me that there is an old concrete staircase, with surreal colonnades, that leads to other beaches. Deserted or almost.<\/p>\n<p>No restaurants or resorts, anyway. Just a pontoon where are moored fishing boats, closed wooden houses that sometimes host groups or holiday camps, a wave boui-boui ...<\/p>\n<p>If I trust the maps I found, the place is called Teluk KK. At the end, a new cove, even more deserted. Perhentian Besar looks almost like the Seychelles, with its big round rocks bathed in the azure of the sea.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Teluk KK, beach just south of Perhentian Besar.\" href=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_9099.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1184\" src=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_9099.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"468\" height=\"243\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know, it's provocation. But I assume my status of geekette at the beach. I feel obliged to transfer these last images immediately...<\/p>\n<p>8)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening on Perhentian Besar. I am not the only \"geekette\" to take a computer... 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