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A Hands-on Holiday Aboard the Stardust
Weekends are too short and too precious for us to spend our time travelling, so when we turned up the website for Stardust, a cruise yacht in Langkawi, it fit our criteria for a long weekend break. Stardust can sleep a maximum of 10, so we decided to take our good friends and their two kids along for the adventure.
We arrived in Langkawi early evening and were whisked off to Sungai Kilim, a spectacular nature park where a mangrove river weaves its way through lowering limestone escarpments. Mike (the skipper) who is a teenager trapped in the body of a thirty¬ something adventurer, got us underway. Our daughter was given the wheel with Mansor the helmsman at her shoulder for ballast while Mike took the boys to the bow and got them involved standing on the deck button that lifts the anchor up. Needless to say, this would be a hands-on holiday, which was perfect for the kids.
We anchored in a quiet bay with king size gin and tonics in hand. After dinner, we jabbered away as the sun slowly disappeared over the horizon. The silence of our surroundings was welcomed and whenever we stopped talking for just a moment, we realized how alone we were in that bay and what a relief it is to be out of the noise and bustle of the city. Silence truly is golden.
