Langkawi Island: Haven for exotic butterflies and Russian bikinis...

摘要

Having dismantled my net and made up a self-tapping screw-secured system of short poles that also fitted into my suitcase, along with a heap of shorts and light shirts, it was time to head for OR Tambo International Airport for a date with Malaysian Airways. Destination? Langkawi, an archipelago of 104 islands lying on the north-western coast of Peninsular Malaysia where the Strait of Malacca meets the waters of the Andaman Sea. Long-suffering non-lepidopterist wife Wendy and good friend Carl van Zyl and his wife Stephanie made up the party and after 12 hours of flying we landed in paradise, having also been joined at Kuala Lumpur Airport by Wendy's brother Ian and his family from Perth, Australia.