Most Beautiful Place in Malaysia 🇲🇾 Perhentian Islands

During our time in Malaysia, we've heard a lot about the Perhentian Islands. These islands are known by locals and foreigners as the best beaches in all of Malaysia (which is saying something!). The Perhentian Islands are made up of two main islands - Perhentian Besar (the big island) and Perhentian Kecil (the small island) and tourists can book accommodations on either of these magical destinations. We chose to stay on Perhentian Kecil (the small island) for it's more local feel, and we were really happy with out choice :)

You might be wondering what there is to do on an island with no motorized vehicles and very few inhabitants. The answer is not much and also, so much (if you count relaxing)! The island life pace is exactly what we were hoping for, and you can easily do a whole lot of nothing here. Reading a book on Coral Beach, having a cocktail at Long Beach, and strolling the sand at sunset were some of our favourite activities. If you're feeling a bit more active and adventurous, you can easily rent snorkeling gear and go on a snorkel trip or snorkel right off the beach. Our preference is to go scuba diving though, so that's exactly what we did! You'll have to watch the video to see what we thought of that experience though :)

If you are someone who loves beaches and are looking for a relaxing few days or weeks in Malaysia, we would recommend the Perhentian Islands for sure! To get there, we took an overnight bus from Penang which was totally doable, but you could also catch a flight to Kota Bharu and head a south from there. It is a bit out of the way from the rest of Malaysia's major tourist destination, but in our opinion, it is worth every minute of transit!! If we had been able, we would have stayed for a minimum of one week and even checked out Perhentian Besar.

Malaysia has some amazing beach locations but for some reason, these destinations are less well known in Southeast Asia than the beaches of Thailand or the Philippines. If you get a chance, you should take advantage of this before everyone starts rushing to the Perhentians! These beautiful islands are bound to be discovered by the masses before too long!

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== Chapters ==
0:00 Welcome to the Maldives of Malaysia!
2:00 Beach hut room tour (just $32!)
3:00 This is Pulau Perhentian Kecil
5:47 Long Beach is worth the walk!
6:48 Mico wants to show you ALL of Long Beach haha
9:13 A little sketchy...?
11:00 Treat yo self
12:15 Let's go scuba diving!
14:17 Not quite what we expected
17:47 Our own private beach

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[acerazak]

Yes, the water at the east coast is better than the west coast. Pulau Perhentian, Pulau Redang, Pulau Tioman are some of the popular islands there. On top of that Malaysia also got a lot of beautiful tropical islands at Sabah 🇲🇾

[maxplanck]

Enjoyable to discover Malaysia with you two, nice to see beyond the cities ✌️❤️🇬🇧much love

[stef]

Malaysia is very underated. Absolutle stunning country.

[JennandLeon]

Beautiful video and island guys! ❤️❤️ we definitely need to add it to our list for our next visit to Malaysia

[keangwooichoo]

Sorry to say, we prefer under rated. We do not like over tourism like in bali and thailand. Perhentian is not 'dirt' cheap. But affordable.

[MarshallandSabrina]

That wreck dive looks incredible!!! The shots of all of the fish are insane!! I bet that was an unreal experience

[keangwooichoo]

Brother and sister, there are many many dive spots there. You spent 2 days only. You can watch american christopher lau who went to perhentian and lang tengah last year with his family. He is based in thailand. Great vlog from him.

[DLFH]

Sometimes you just gotta take time to slow down for a bit, and having a lounge time on the beach followed up with a sunset meal sounds absolutely wonderful to me. Where's your favorite place you've been diving?

[rahmansaad]

U both like diving u should go Sabah semporna or stay sandakan .there's a lot of diving spot .u both will loving it

[SoAndrew]

Wow I stayed at Senja Bay Resort back in May, as well!
Did you feel a bit scary in the wooden houses up there, since they are a bit shaky, especially when people pass by? 😆

[keangwooichoo]

Should try redang and tioman island too

[keangwooichoo]

Perhentian besar is for family resort vibe.

[nickme]

Perhentian are gorgeous but i believe the most beautiful island in Malaysia are in borneo Sabah...

[retsailor]

Did you go snorkeling while you were there ? Was it free to just snorkel off the beach ? Thank you for sharing.

[keangwooichoo]

As a malaysian, my top diving pick for my country based on visitor feedback on vlogs.

1. Layang-layang atoll sabah : hammerhead
2. Sipadan island (the big stuff like sharks, whale sharks, hammer heads, turtles, parrot fish, jack fish, barracuda) / mabul island (macro diving eg nudi branch, croc fish, lion fish )
3. Kapalai
4. Perhentian island
5. Tioman island

[LemonadeFamily]

I LIVE IN MALAYSIA AND ME CATHERINE AND PAM GO AS A TRIP

[justrk]

It's unfortunate you are short of time if not you could visit Redang Island and Kapas Island nearby..Kapas might have the best diving spot

[varunasrivastava]

Hey nice video :) what time you folks visited? Is October good time to visit?

[keangwooichoo]

Mango shake cheaper than jalan alor kl

[keangwooichoo]

Our small islands do not have incinerators.