What It’s Like to Stay in a Langkawi Overwater Villa

 

We were not going to spend a lot. It was an impulsive move that you take when you feel good. I had watched those dreamy photos on the internet, little huts floating on turquoise waters, and always imagined that it was impossible.

 But an off-season deal made it seem possible. We made reservations prior to either of us having a chance to think twice about it.

 It was as though I was passing into another world by walking to the villa. There was a narrow wooden walkway which extended across the sea. The voice of the waves made everything soft.

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 The further we walked the more the sound of the rest of the world died away. Here, at the last, was our night-stop.

 The view is the first thing I noticed. The villa had large glass windows and a personal deck opening directly to the sea. No people were there. No roads. Water all around, water everywhere.

 We were not even unpacking. We went overboard on the deck, and floated in still, salt-sweet air with nothing whatever to do.

 Everything inside the villa was quiet and sparse. Wooden floors. A broad bed which seemed to be in the clouds. There was a large bathtub beside the window in the bathroom and I recall soaking there once an evening, as the sky lost itself into the horizon.

 I loved the pace the most. Out there, time seemed to go by slower. Mornings were coffee on the deck. Now and then a sea eagle passed by. Afternoons would pass away in swimming and reading and utter silence. At night they saw stars, and sat with a robe and bare feet on the wood, and heard nothing but the sea.

 Langkawi is already a beautiful place, but it was like a personal experience to stay in an overwater villa. Life was simplified to the bare minimum, at least temporarily.