#355
18th December
For those who missed Part 1 of my trip to Langkawi,
click here.
Alright let's continue!
15/12/2014 (Monday)
Today is the day which I think is the most enjoyable.
The activity that day is the boat ride for mangrove sightseeing, monkey and eagle feeding, bat cave and crocodile cave exploring and fish farm visiting.
And again, we woke up around 6.30 am, and ready for the breakfast at the hotel again.
After breakfast we had a walk around the streets :)
By that time there were clouds over the sky and the weather was quite cool, probably rained last night.
Okay we back to hotel around 9 am and we met Erika again.
Then after that she fetched us to the jetty point at Tanjung Rhu for the boat ride.
BTW along the way to the jetty she got told us information about mangroves and some interesting places.
Reached there after some winding kampung roads.
Well actually that place is a conservation area so that's why it keep natural.
Anyway there's another Klim Jetty but we didn't go there, moreover if you got followed a tour guide, you got the chance to enter Tanjung Rhu Jetty Point, otherwise other visitors are prohibited to enter, where there is a guard need you to write borang write all details like that, by the it will took much time lah.
So after we passed the guard checkpoint, we reached the jetty point.
So here how it looks like.
After some preparation, we finally get onto the boat!
We are going for exploration, but first, let's have a group photo!
来!大家看这里!笑笑!Haha thanks Erika for helping me to take this picture. :)
After everyone including Erika prepared for the boat ride, our journey starts!
Wow I think this is my first experience for a boat tour along the river (other than the water rafting in Kampar) and across the sea.
So keep taking photos for what I had seen.
Alright, after that, we reached the first stop: Monkey feeding.
Dun need to say also know that every forest also got monkey wan lah.
But what is the difference between the monkeys from land forest and mangrove forest?
You think monkeys can't swim? Wrong! The monkeys here CAN swim!
Pandainya these monkeys, know how to climb how to swim too.
First stop of the boat ride.
See those monkeys are swimming? How adorable was that! :D
Waiting for food......
Okay there's a monkey, quite big pun, swim to us and jump onto the boat to find food from us.
We gave them peanuts for it to eat.
This monkey more pandai it can even crush the skin before eat the peanuts inside.
Haha it's taking peanuts from me! =D
Then we say "Goodbye!" to those monkeys and continue for the next activity: Eagles feeding.
But dunno how to say lah, maybe got a little bit unlucky, the weather got a little bit windy so not many eagles fly out that day, just a few nia.
Anyway 能够看到老鹰 is okay le.
Not sure whether you could see them or not, but maybe they are too far away so I not actually took good pictures of them grab the foods like that.
If you want the best view you go experience it yourself lah haha XD
Next, exploring crocodile cave.
Erika said that actually there's no crocodile in the cave now, otherwise we all sure GG liao, becuz' there're like hundreds of crocodiles in that cave long time ago, where they made it as a home.
High rocks.
Is this nice? Well I gonna place my camera beside the boat near to the water :P
Entering the cave!
Erika continues inform us that the water level long time ago is actually very very high and it could cover the whole land now.
Now the water level decreases so much, so when the crocodiles lived in this cave, they had to climb up the cave through holes and walls so that the high tide won't effect themselves.
Out of the cave :)
The cave is actually short in distance so it won't be too dark lah.
After that we head to another cave, the bat cave.
Before that we had went through a water village, and you could find foreign cruisers there.
Pass through the water village and enter the bat cave.
Also got many tourists there, with many foreign tourists.
Whatever but this reminds me my adventure in Gua Tempurung, 有点阴影, but anyway no need to cross water no need to climb rocks like that lah, still okay bah.
Okay look at this stalactite, our Q&A with Erika starts... (Translated from Chinese to English)
Erika: Look at this stalactite, why it keep pointing outwards?
Me: (乱乱回答) Becuz' got sunlight?
Erika: Har correct!
(I shocked for my un-thought answer XP)
Erika: But why need sunlight leh?
表哥: Got lumut (青苔)?
Erika: Yes correct. That lumut need water and sunlight, so the lumut just like dragging the stone to grow outwards, so it present a shape like this.
Everyone: Ohhhhh....
After that we enter the bat cave, 顾名思义 there are many bats live in that cave lah.
Haha the bats really many, but got a little bit smelly (forgot to bring mask)... Nearly pengsan... XD
There is a stalactite there which closed from unauthorized destroying.
The picture is down here.
Erika said if a stalactite grows 1 cm, it would takes 7-8 years!
So that's why it keep closed as many visitors had cut the stalactites or else it can't grow even deeper.
And we are so lucky to find a snake in the bat cave, and it is the most venomous snake, Viper.
Well, it cling on the cave wall and far away from us, so it is not dangerous lah.
I siao siao ask Erika does Viper eat bats, she said it is difficult cuz' bats can fly away from it mah.
Common foods for snake are rats lah.
Leaving the bat cave and continue for the boat ride to the border line of Malaysia-Thailand, but not across it of cuz, or else the marine police will catch us all XD
Going to the border line...
Hey there's Thailand!
Now the boat is speeding up through the sea, enjoy the wind, look at the sea and islands
WOW SYIOK NYA!
After some times we reached a fish farm.
Get onto the platform and watch the person in charge lead us to feed the fishes, watch the fishes.
Of cuz' we feed the fishes which have no teeth.
Get it? Fishes with no teeth are not that dangerous lah XD
Me feeding the fishes. =)
Our lead feeds the stingray (Splash!!!)
He also show us this baby shark, cute nia!
And also this one, named horseshoe crab, in Chinese called 鲎 (Hòu).
OMG it walks on my hand very geli nia haha XP
After visiting the fish farm we went for our lunch at the nearby on-water restaurant.
The dishes are quite nice and enough portion for us.
Actually there are total of 3 dishes, but I left 1 dish forgot to take, maybe too hungry dy XP
So after lunch, we back to Tanjung Rhu jetty point.
Then I again found the map and see how long was the route is, and I think it looks like this.
Snipped and edited. (Ignore that blank space error)
But there's so much time left we have to use it enough.
So Erika fetched us to the Bird Paradise, which is also not far away from the jetty point.
Paid the tickets and enter the kingdom of birds (also same with other animals)
Eh got what type of birds I lazy to say liao, you go find out yourselves lah, I present some photos here hehe X)
Me with the parrot.
OMG cute duckies!!!
Looks like fox de raccoon.
Actually those birds are not caged and are free to move in the area, this is what really make people could get close with them.
Aiyo 骄傲 lor this peacock XD
Ostrich.
Well are you actually flew from Sarawak?
Hello again eagle :)
The next thing is some carved rocks, not sure why it can be found here becuz' got a little bit weird.
But anyway I just took the pictures of the rocks that I like haha.
OMG who wants to sit there and take a pic for commemorate? XD
There are other animals like crocodiles, rabbits and other kind of birds like that.
Like I said, I just can't put everything here, if you want to see you go explore it yourselves bah.
After visiting Bird Paradise we head to Langkawi Parade, beside there is Billion supermarket.
Same as other shopping mall, sold things like everyone seen before, there are many other shops but I maybe too sien dy so I didn't buy anything.
Back to hotel, had a shower, gather at the lobby again, have a dinner and then we shop again.
This time we go to Teow Soon Huat, one of the famous supermarkets in Kuah town.
So by then we had bought more things cuz' tomorrow is the last day liao.
After shopping, back to hotel, and again ready for the young guys' night chat.
This time with 0.1% alcohol drinks only haha XD
Not I don't want drink, just because drinks with too high level of alcohols don't fit my taste XP
So then, we ended the 3rd day in Langkawi.
16/12/2014 (Tuesday)
The last day in Langkawi... got a little bit 舍不得 leave this island.
But anyway still have to leave lah.
Today Erika won't be with us and we have to return the van around 2.30 pm.
So in the morning we didn't eat the hotel breakfast liao, just have it at a hawker centre, but very funny cuz' almost everything sold there (except drinks) are RM 5... Lol do you think this is crazy?
Alright after breakfast we head to Black Sands Beach, at the northern part of Langkawi Island.
Eh if you see the picture from Internet is actually different from what I saw.
As you can see the sands are not actually whole black, but got some only.
Saw the information board and realized that the black sands are actually becuz' of what titanium like that (Actually I lazy to read) XP
After visiting black sands beach we drove through the northern part of Langkawi to ride on the cable car.
So this is the route how we went to that place.
Probably you will ask why don't use the roads of southern part?
Haha I also don't know but Erika said use the route of northern part would be faster, maybe becuz' of the road is quite straight and no traffic light compared to the southern part.
Reached Oriental Village around 9.15 am, and walk to the cable car station.
Luckily is Tuesday and we reached there earlier so we don't need to queue up too long.
So then after we bought the tickets, walk and wait for awhile, then we enter the SkyDome, which everyone must enter before ride the cable car.
Ehh not sure what SkyDome built for what, we just sit there, look at the spherical roof and play a video of roller coaster, and make you have a feeling that you are riding it.
OMG seriously I laugh for that, we want to sit cable car liao you play this video for us to see for what? Make ppl more pening nia...
After that hilarious video we again queue up until our turn to ride on the cable car.
OMG Looks very steep right!?
出发咯!
Don't look back! It's getting higher! (But I steady not afraid of it XD)
Seriously how can they even built it!?!?
Reached the middle station and enjoy the scenery first before heading to the last station.
Wow by that time the weather is still cloudy and slightly windy.
But anyway this is the perfect weather for us.
There is the last station.
After that we head to the final station.
And we also could find SkyBridge along the way there.
But too sad the bridge would be reopened next year...
But nvm lah still got chance to visit Langkawi in the future de lah.
Reached the final station and there're lots of people there.
So went up the stairs to the viewing area and start taking photos here and there.
#1: Cable cars
#2: Part of the view (not towards Thailand)
#3: Selfie! XD (My best selfie ever)
#4: Looking down there... (Find this pic on my Facebook bah)
*This is also a selfie but it looks like got ppl help me to take it haha XP
#5: Waiting for the cable car to back down to the land.
After the cable car ride we straight to Telaga Tujuh Waterfall.
WTF the road is so steep like hell, just like climb hill like that, beh tahan nya. XP
But still we managed to walk the path and reach the waterfall.
Not much water that day, maybe hadn't raining, and not quite fascinating as Lata Kinjang Waterfall in Kampar.
So the visit to Telaga Tujuh Waterfall is the last destination for our trip in Langkawi.
By then we searched through the streets for lunch but we couldn't find it.
没办法 we straight to the airport to take lunch there.
Expensive like hell... =.=|||
Haizz... we gonna wait for about 5 hours at the airport until we could board on the airplane back to Penang.
Still got a long time to wait so we all young guys went to Starbucks to drink coffees :)
BTW this is the first time I enjoy Starbucks and I shouldn't have caffeine drinks that time so I just have Chocolate cream drinks like that only.
Then we sit down and look some magazines and chat to fill the free time.
All rubbishes...
Wait wait wait chat chat chat until 4 pm, we check-in and we wait for our flight to Penang.
Finally it's the time to back home, really miss my bed so much haha X)
So the airplane reached the airport 5.30 pm and reached Penang International Airport 5.50 pm.
Took a booked taxi and back home.
Well we ended the trip to Langkawi with so much fun activities and full of sweet memories.
Now I could proudly oppose those who said "Langkawi 没有东西看的啦".
Langkawi got too much interesting places to visit, but you gonna search them, find them, enjoy them and experience them.
It is such a waste if you think you just want shopping only.
That's the whole trip to Langkawi.
Hope that I got another chance to visit it next time :)
Bye!