Langkawi : Day 5

We reach airport really early! Even before the sun is up! Have to wait for the guy to return the car key to him and we still have more than enough time to have our breakfast and coffee.

Coming to an end of our holiday...

Very reluctant to leave this beautiful island... But we are glad that we manage to make it here and try our best to fully utilise this trip!

Hope to be back with my boys someday!

Langkawi : Day 4 (Part II)

Taking transport provided back to hotel after our island hop. Very much wanted to go to famous cable car ride at Oriental village but due to the time spend going back hotel and take the car doesn't leave us much time to travel there. Overhead that the driver is sending 2 tourists there and we are overjoyed! Decide to alight there and think of a way back to hotel later! (ps: quite hard to get a taxi there although it's tourist attraction place. Maybe it's a weekday

Finally!!
Langkawi Cable Car is located just north of Telaga Harbour, Pantai Kok, with the entrance within 'ORIENTAL VILLAGE' - a theme shopping centre housing in 30 individually designed buildings showcasing Malaysian and Oriental architecture.


Read online that at times you may need to Q up to 4hrs! Express pass comes to use at this point.. just need to fork out more. =) Lucky us, there's no Q at all!


The journey from the Base Station to Middle Station will cover 1,700 meters in length and upon reaching the Middle Station at an elevation of 650m above sea level, visitors will be able to alight and walk up to the viewing platforms. We are at middle station!




Look at this! Amazing view!




At the Top Station. A short walk up the stairs from the Top Station will take visitors to the two viewing platforms at the top of Gunung Machinchang. A cafe at the Top Station offers refreshments and views with cool breezes, at 700m above sea-level is about 5 degrees Celsius (+/-) cooler than lowlands.








I really wanted to walk on the skybridge, but unfortunately, it was closed for maintenance for long time. Otherwise, it would have been such an amazing experience.


There are two observation decks at the Top Station. One on the right and another on the left. Both offer different views of the island. The view was amazing, fantastic and magnifique, as the French would say. I was speechless to see such lush greenery, coupled with strong winds.






Left at around 6.30pm and we waited for 20mins before we see a cab driving in to drop customer!

Visit the website SkyCab

Ticketing

Adult : RM30.00
Child : RM20.00 (age 2-12yo)
Express pass : RM40.00 (optional)



Back to hotel to wash up and out for dinner! Totally no idea what to have for dinner and we chanced upon this restaurant selling Indian food. Not a fan of this cuisine but just went along with the rest…






Some games before going back to hotel.

Oasis Bar and Restaurant

838 Jalan Pantai Cenang (next to Sunset Beach Resort)

We drive pass this fruit stall everyday and the first fruit we notice is mangoes. Looks very sweet and juicy and here we come after dinner... Who knows that is made of plastic. (-.-)
In the end we didn't buy any as it's pretty expensive and doesn't look very fresh....


Back to hotel after whole day out! Fun! >

Langkawi : Day 4 (part I)

Good morning! Heavy breakfast before we start our very packed itinerary!




Everyday I'm in braided ponytail!
You will never see me like this in singapore! Lol!


Start of our 6hrs long island hop!


First stop - Bat Cave.
Accessible only by boat, you can then walk along a wooden platform through a mangrove swamp, leading directly to the cave. It is located about 420m away. from the Kilim Jetty. The journey only take 5 minutes from the Jetty.





The two traditionally recognized suborders of bats are:
■Megachiroptera (megabats)
■Microchiroptera (microbats/echolocating bats)
Megabats eat fruit, nectar, or pollen, while most microbats eat insects; others may feed on the blood of animals, small mammals, fish, frogs, fruit, pollen, or nectar. Megabats have well-developed visual cortices and show good visual acuity, while microbats rely on echolocation for navigation and finding prey.

Some bats have evolved a highly sophisticated sense of hearing. They emit sounds that bounce off of objects in their path, sending echoes back to the bats. From these echoes, the bats can determine the size of objects, how far away they are, how fast they are traveling and even their texture, all in a split second.

Bats find shelter in caves, crevices, tree cavities and buildings. Some species are solitary while others form colonies of more than a million individuals.


The entrance of the Million Years Bat Cave.


"The bat cave was existed about 440-480 million years ago, and it's lurks quietly in a mangrove swamp in a tributary of Kilim River. The chamber is in the form of a long tunnel. Clinging precariously on the ceiling of hundreds of bats, The stalactites and stalagmites within this cave are of the gigantic proportions. Stalactites on the eastern cave entrance are rather unique as they did not grow vertically downward. The growth of these oblique stalactites is believed to be associated with the deposition of travertine deposits by photosynthetic algae that required brighter sunlight to grow. There are ancient oyster shells attached on certain wall of the cave, a few meters above the sea level, indicating a higher ancient sea level 5000 years ago..."




I like to see the stone formation along the cave...






Exiting the other end of cave. The cave is at a mangrove forest.


































Kilim Geoforest Park.
"Eastern part of the main Langkawi Island features magnificently formed landscape of nearly vertical to subrounded limestone hills with pinnacles of various shapes and sizes, can be viewed on limestone Setul Formation.
The northeast region of Langkawi, encompassing the three river basins of Kilim, Air Hangat and Kisap and the neighbouring islands of Langgun and Tanjung Dendang are spectacular in its beauty with the geological and landscape resources, the seas, the mudflats, beaches, the wetland mangrove and the unique fauna and flora that have long coexisted in these ecosystems."
























Forgot where is this place!
This place is actually right in the middle of an island and the surrounding are all rocks formation with thick trees covering this place. Very beautiful place!










Nex stop - Tanjong Rhu beach!
Tanjung Rhu Beach is one of the best beaches in Langkawi. Although some of the beach is indeed private property — complete with security guards — you can still easily stake out your own private landing strip for the day.












No joke. Become super tan after 1 hour there!




Approaching fish farm!
This fish farm lies within the vicinity of the verdant mangrove forests and the striking limestone structures formations along the Kilim River. Interestingly, the Hole in the Wall Fish farm got its name from a little opening in a long line of limestone hills at the outskirts of the Andaman Sea.


















Next we went to a small cave which they named it Crocodile Cave.
No photos as the photos I took are all blurred! Although it is high tide, we still manage to squeeze through our boat through! The skill of those people are superb!
This cave is unique because the Kilim River actually flows right through it, and is navigable by a small boat at low tide. Inside the cave there is an ascending chamber flanked by walls of white limestone with minimal stalactites and stalagmites. Small colonies of bats roost on the lower ceiling. The name of this cave may either entice or scare off visitors, depending on their attitude to the crocodiles that still exist in the area, although not in so large a number as in the old days.

Up next. Eagle feeding!
We had went to eagle feeding at Singa Besar but this is better than the previous! More eagles at this place. More I mean ALOT more!







Went cable car next but I will write in another post!