A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Perhentian Islands, Malaysia by TravelPod blogger Elliotandcarla. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Best snorkelling ever on this island paradise We were heading to Kota Bharu to meet our friend Kelly. We first met Kelly in Bariloche, Argentina (there seems to be a recurring theme of meeting up with people we first met in Argentina, which just shows what a good time we had and how many great people we met). He’s from Alaska and was in Kuala Lumpur on a training course and had arranged to fly to Kota Bharu and meet us, before we all headed to the Perhentian Islands together. The bus journey was a royal pain in the ****. The 'luxury' 27 seater bus we were promised turned out to be a normal 50ish seater one that was packed full. The excuse was that the nice bus had broken down, I but we think they just overbooked and had to use a bigger bus. Then Kelly rang to say that he had missed his flight so would have to meet us at the islands a day later. This wasn't looking like the best of starts. But it actually ended all ok. We got talking to a Malaysian couple from Penang who were also heading to the Perhentians for the first time and instead of going to Kota Bharu (which is 2 hours and another bus from where we now needed to be, seeing as we weren't meeting Kelly anymore), we got a lift in their taxi straight to the ferry place and were on the first ferry at 7am, heading to Perhentian Kecil, the smaller of the 2 ...