Langkawi (Part 1)

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17th December

Finally of again and again, the feeling of back home is great!

The 4-days-3-nights trip to Pulau Langkawi is tired but fun.

This time is not with friends but with family and relatives.

Since this is my "first" time to visit Langkawi, so not sure it is worthy or not.

But in the end, I could conclude those who say "Langkawi 没有东西看的啦" are totally wrong!!!

Not Langkawi has nothing to see, is they dunno how to find things or activities to see and do.

Mostly the trip to Langkawi spent only about 2 days for someone, but that's actually not enough, moreover we used 4 days also haven't finished visit all interesting places around Langkawi.

BTW we traveled to Langkawi by airplane not by ferry.

Well you know the jetty would be totally packed with ppl during holidays, that maybe make not the best start for your trip.

Luckily our tour guide from an agency so good, helped us to manage the package to this place to that place with affordable price and also for renting a van.

Anyway let's get started, since this trip consists of 4 days, so I think if I put the whole trip to this post would take too much time to complete, so I separated into 2 parts, Part 1 for 13/12 and 14/12 while Part 2 for 15/12 and 16/12.

Additional update:
Since got friends ask me what are the interesting places in Langkawi, so I think I would suggest some traveling tips here:
1) Remember to bring IC, medicines (especially 晕船药很重要), mint sweets and umbrella (December is the raining season).
2) If hire a tour guide is better, or you could try to find the free Langkawi map in jetty or airport.
3) I recommend boat ride for mangrove sightseeing (with other activities along the ride), see what I post in Part 2.
4) Use the route of Northern part of Langkawi to go to the cable car ride (becuz' there's no traffic light at all and faster to reach there).
5) Put on sunblock before going to Pulau Payar (if hot weather).
6) I also recommend Underwater World and Bird Paradise.
7) While shopping, you may want to compare the prices first from various supermarkets and shops, and also check the expired date before buying.

That's what I want to suggest. Happy reading my following post and happy traveling! =D

13/12/2014 (Saturday)

Reached the Penang International Airport around 9.15 am, wait for everyone (total of 14 persons) to gather and then check-in.

Wait for the calling and then we hop into a rather bigger airplane, cuz' this time is AirAsia mah.

Well erhem maybe we too late check in so we are actually too close to board on when the boarding gate is going to close, but anyway 能够上到飞机就好了.

Since the distance between Penang and Langkawi are short, not like to Kuantan, it took only about 20 minutes only!

So here is it, we reached Langkawi International Airport.

After we reached the airport around 11.30 am, we met up Erika, our tour guide.

So after some kind of discussions, paid the money and then she showed us the rented van, 

Well the van is quite new and could carried up to 15 ppl.

My uncle would be the driver and the first stop is the Underwater World.

But before we enter it we had a lunch at a restaurant opposite of that.

 We are heading for lunch.

 Lunch-ing :)

So here we come, Underwater World :D

BTW 我在此先声明, I actually took like more than 50 photos while in Underwater World, so there's no way I could post every picture in this blog, by then it would take too much time, so I just chose some interesting photos for you guys, the others I remained for you to explore haha XD

So here are they:

 Arowana.

 Seal. (It keeps swimming so fast and I can't actually take a nice photo)

 Penguins! ❤

 相爱

 来自星星的鱼 XD

 大闸蟹 WTF it really looks like a freaking large spider. O.O

 Stingray.

 老石斑, too fat until can't move... XP

 Finding Nemo Edition: Dory

 Forget this is who dy :P

 This one I also forgot is who.

 Jellyfish, stings really long like hell.

 Seahorse, and you should know that the males are pregnant!

 Lobster, this can't eat actually.

 Lion fish.

Hello Nemo!

That's all what had I chosen, the rest you go there baru see lah, actually there are still other land animals like birds and mammals.

After visiting Underwater World we straight go to De Baron Resort to check in, by that time was already 3 pm dy.
So here's the room.

The back of the resort is a garden and seafront, where you can enjoy the scenery of the sea and enjoy the breeze like that.
There's also a swimming pool but mostly built for the children, and no beach for you to walk on.

So here's the view from the seafront, with boats and cruisers.

After that back to room, had a shower, changed clothes and ready for dinner!

Reach the restaurant and we had a nice dinner, not really know what was the name dy.
(Finally I found out is called Yong Leong Seafood Restaurant)
So here's the dishes.

After the dinner we visited the Eagle Square.
That's what made Langkawi famous.
BTW this is the first time I visit Langkawi, I think I will visit the eagle during day time but night time is also very nice too.
Here I present some photos.

Well if I got the chance to visit Langkawi again I would see how it looks like during day time.

After this we have a shopping spree around Kuah Town.
Too much duty free shops dy, like Zeno, Coco Valley and more.
BTW One of Malaysian's general knowledge is Langkawi is an island where all the shops are duty free.
So that's why you can found lots of imported chocolates, wines, beers, tobacco, luggage...
Well dun need to say our targets are wines and chocolates lah.
Our resort is also located at Kuah, and there's a pasar malam there, so again we shop more.

So here is it. But this is just part of the pasar malam, there are more things inside, through this street through that street, got a little bit 看到 sien cuz' much of things sold are shirts lah, gamat oil lah keychains lah.

But since this is the first day so we are not planned to buy things yet, juz check the price of which shop cheaper la XD

The first day ended! :D

14/12/2014 (Sunday)

Woke up quite early around 6.30 am.

Today is the day to Pulau Payar Marine Park, where the bus will take us from hotel to the jetty first, then by speedboat o the island.

But first, let's have a breakfast at the hotel.

Still got time mah go to the seafront to enjoy the morning breeze.

Ah such as fresh start for me, I think I wanna live here! XD

 Morning guys! Sunday is a nice day! :D

望海想未来 XD

We actually packed our clothes and towel the last night, we gathered at the lobby to wait for the bus until 9 am.

Then we straight to the jetty, follow the tour guide to the boat, and start the journey!

 Since I sit beside the window, so I can take picture of sea.

开动咯！

I'm not sure how far was Pulau Payar from Langkawi, but through my timeline in my camera it took about 1 hour to reach Pulau Payar.

After I checked the map I realized that it is quite far from Langkawi.

Snipped the map and edited it, for a better view.

Reached there around 11 am, when the speedboat stops I nearly 晕船, luckily the waves are not so high la, plus it is a sunny day, hot like hell how to go snorkeling...

Anyway the water is so clear that you could actually look at the corals, the fishes from above.

How clear is it? Here is the photo.

By then received the life jacket and mask for snorkeling.

Well it was nearly 12 pm, really really hot like hell but nvm since I already put on sunblock so I think is no problem lah.

Faster swim into the water for refreshing, and then look for fishes swim past through our legs like that.

Seriously even you don't need whole body into the water you can see them so clearly.

And beware of small sharks! But it won't hurt you la if you dun kacau them.

After much time snorkeling in the water, walk on white sands, accidentally drank tio very salty seawater, it's lunch time.

Not very luxurious buffet lunch, just fried rice with cucumbers, fries and fried chicken, and also tinned ice lemon tea.

After that didn't continue snorkeling dy, just wait until 2.45 pm to board on the speedboat.

But WTF by that time the weather suddenly changed cloudy and windy.

Experienced high waves during way back to the jetty.

So the journey back to jetty is quite shaky, up and down like that, but my subconscious 潜意识 told me just have to close my eye and feel like I'm sitting on a rocking chair, 很快就过了.

Luckily this time I didn't 晕船, my 潜意识 works haha XD 

And another about 1 hour again, we reached jetty, some ppl really beh tahan and then puke, but got provided with plastic bags lah.

Reached the jetty already 4.15 pm le, back to hotel by bus, took a shower and then rest for a while before going for dinner.

So we reached another restaurant which we ordered the food and we waited for a long time.

And we completed our late dinner around 8 pm.

After the dinner is again for shopping time.

This time we bought chocolates and some wines before back to Penang.

We planned to buy them at the second day cuz' if too late we probably dun have much time to buy anymore.

Spent more than RM100 for those things, and most of them are for relatives and friends lah.

Back to hotel again and ready for my next activity.
Haha we all young guys went to the back garden and sit at the seafront for night chat XD
Just relax, enjoy the wind, drink something (for me is non-alcoholic drinks lah), chat and laugh.
Quite fun lah actually, but for children is a 不良示范 lah lol.
So like that, back to room around 11.30 pm, and ended my 2nd day in Langkawi.

The trip to Langkawi for Part 2 maybe published tomorrow.

Stay tuned! :D