Pulau Langkawi Trip - Day 2 & 3

Early morning on 2nd day, we went to the meet point at Underwater World to meet with our island tour guide to have our boat ride to small islands around Pulau Langkawi. The islands that we visited were Pulau Dayang Bunting and Pulau Beras Basah, besides that we also stopped at the sea near Pulau Singa Besar, known for its wildlife sanctuary to see eagles.

This was my little cousins first time ride on speedboat, they were very excited and felt scare too. Before we head out to sea, we all wore life jacket for safety. Then, we head out to our island trip.


Boat Ride to Islands

The first island we were visiting was Pulau Dayang Bunting. The island gets its name from a legend that surrounds the freshwater lake, Tasik Dayang Bunting (Lake of the Pregnant Maiden) the largest lake in Langkawi and the water in the lake was said that it possess magical powers that will enable barren women to bear a child if they drink water from the lake. Before reached Pulau Dayang Bunting, we also saw a mountain which looked like a pregnant maiden lying down there.

Pulau Dayang Bunting (The Island of the Pregnant Maiden)

At Pulau Dayang Bunting, we were allowed to stay there for an hour to walk around. At the jetty, there were a lot of monkeys waiting there to see which visitor bring plastic bag along, then they will run toward that visitor to take away the plastic bag, even though there was no food inside the plastic bag. So, remember do not bring any plastic bag to Pulau Dayang Bunting when you visit there.

Pulau Dayang Bunting's Map

At Pulau Dayang Bunting, there was a lake in the middle of island named Lake of the Pregnant Maiden. We have to climb stair over a hill to reach the lake. Before I see the lake, I could not imaging how the lake look like. When I reach the top of the small hill and look down to the lake, it was very beautiful. It looked like a lot of crystals were floating on the water when the sunlight reflect on the water. Surround the lake was green forests and the water was dark green in colour and very deep until cannot see the bottom of the lake and really could enjoy the nature. They have built pontoon for visitors to let visitors to stand. They also prepared some paddle boats for visitors to rent it. Luckily we went there early, after an hour, there were a lot of visitors reached the lake, on that time we really could not enjoy the sound of nature because full of people voice. Then, we left the lake and heading to jetty to ride on the boat to next stop.


View of Tasik Dayang Bunting (Lake of the Pregnant Maiden)

After Pulau Dayang Bunting, we headed to the sea near Pulau Singa Besar to see eagles flying around the sea to catch fishes. This was my first time to see the eagle in this close distance. The eagles were very beautiful and I hope no one will destroy their habitat. We stopped there around 15 minutes then we headed to other island, Pulau Beras Basah.

View of Eagle Feeding

Pulau Beras Basah (Island of Wet Rice) was the beach with white sand and clear water. A lot of visitors were there playing at the beach and swimming. My cousins were very happy to see the sea. My uncles and my sisters looked after them at the beach and I was busy taking photos. After an hour, we left the island and headed back to Langkawi mainland.


View of Pulau Beras Basah (Island of Wet Rice)

Around 12pm, we reached Langkawi mainland. Then we went to have a simple lunch before went to Underwater World Langkawi, one of the largest marine and fresh water aquaria in South East Asia. For our lunch, we had fried rice, fried flat noodle, vegetables and BBQ Stuffed Chicken Wings at a restaurant. Then we headed to Underwater World. My sister went to bought tickets before enter into the Underwater World. Too sad that one part of the Underwater World was closed down for renovation due to the incident that happened few months ago, someone have poisoned the fishes in the aquaria cause a lots of big fishes died. So, this time we did not see much fishes in the aquaria.


Ticket for Underwater World

Jellyfish

After we out from the Underwater World, we went to the beach behind it, Pantai Cenang to continue our play at the beach after Pulau Beras Basah.

View of Pantai Cenang (Cenang Beach)

My uncle caught some hermit crabs to let my cousins to look at it. We built a sand castle for the hermit crabs. Later on, we let them back to the sea.

Hermit Crabs

Around 5.30pm, we left Pantai Cenang and went to Pantai Pasir Hitam (Black Sand Beach). The journey took us almost 1 hour to reach. The sand at Pantai Pasir Hitam was totally black in colour, just like the sand has been burnt for century. Too bad the sand that we saw was not totally black, it was the mixture of black sand and normal sand. My youngest sister told me that the time she visited the beach, the sand was totally black, did not mixed with other sand at all. There were some fishermen there catching fishes. My aunt asked them whether they sell the fishes and prawns, their answer were yes. So, we decided that our dinner will be the seafood from Pantai Pasir Hitam. We bought some fresh fishes and prawns with a cheap price. Then we headed back to out apartment to cook our dinner.

View of Pantai Pasir Hitam (Black Sand Beach)


View of Fisherman on Fishing Boat

Around 8pm, we reached our apartment. My sister brought my cousins to swimming pool to swim. I helped my aunt to prepare dinner. In our dinner, we have chicken sausages for children, fresh fried fishes, instant fried noodles, and fresh prawn soup. All of us were very happy with the dinner.

Chicken Sausages


Fried Fishes


Instant Fried Noodle


Prawn Soup

On 3rd day morning, my cousins went to swimming pool to play water again. We started to pack our bag to get ready to leave Pulau Langkawi. Around 12pm, we check-out from the apartment and headed to jetty. After we handed the car back to car rental company and bought the ferry tickets, we went to free-duty chocolate shop to buy some chocolates back to Selangor as a gift. We took a ride of 1pm ferry back to Kuala Perlis. So, "GOOD BYE, LANGKAWI! AND I WILL BE BACK!"

Around 2pm, we reached Kuala Perlis and took our cars from the parking lot, then headed back to Selangor. Around 10pm, we reached home with happy memories and very tired body. So, this was the end of my Pulau Langkawi trip.

Pulau Langkawi Trip - Day 1

On 9th March 2008, 7 o'clock in the morning, we (11 person with two cars) departed to Pulau Langkawi. First destination that we heading to was Kuala Perlis's ferry jetty because we needed to take a ride of ferry to Pulau Langkawi. The journey took us around 5 hours. Around 12.30pm, we reached Kuala Perlis's jetty. My sister and I went to ticket counter bought ferry tickets. We bought the tickets which departed on 2pm and the ferry was Labuan Express 7. During the time we waiting for the ferry, we went to an other counter to arrange a boat to bring us out to some small islands around Langkawi.

Entrance of Kuala Perlis's Ferry Jetty

Ferry Ticket - RM18.00 for Adult and RM13 for Children

On 2pm, we went on ferry and heading to Pulau Langkawi. My little cousins were very excited when get on the ferry because this was their first time took ferry to island.

Ferry - Labuan Express 7

On 3.30pm, we reached Pulau Langkawi's jetty located near Kuah (the capital of Langkawi). Fist we went out from the jetty and went to look for the van which we rent. The car rental agent left the car at the car park, we just went to took the car. Then we went straight to check-in at the apartment that we rent during our stay in Langkawi - Century Suria Services Apartment. After we left our things in the apartment, my little cousin straight changed their swimming suit and went to swimming pool. Around 5.30pm, we went out to take our dinner at McDonald's located in Billion Shopping Centre. Since the apartment allowed we cook, so after dinner, we went to buy some food supplies - instant noodle, eggs, a can of tuna, etc back to apartment.

Langkawi's Jetty

Langkawi Geopark

Dataran Lang (Eagle Square)

At night, we head out to other side of Langkawi - Pantai Tengah and Pantai Cenang to look for the meeting point with the island tour guide in the next morning. At the place we stay - Kuah, even though there were many free duty shops and shopping centres but they were mainly for Langkawi local people or other Malaysian visitors. At Pantai Tengah and Pantain Cenang, the feeling was totally different because there were many hotels or resorts which mainly for foreign visitors. So, when we walked along the street at Pantai Tengah, we could saw a lot of foreigners there. We took a walk along the street, there were small shops selling beach clothes, souvenirs, spa & massege etc, then we went to the beach but the beach was too dark, we could not see properly. At 11pm, we went back to apartment to rest.

Street at Pantai Tengah

Langkawi, Here I Come!

In the beginning of February, my 6th uncle who stay at Taiwan want to come back to Malaysia on March and he ask us do we have any interesting place or island to go. I told him that I never been to Langkawi and around this season, we cannot go to islands which located at East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia because of monsoon.

My 6th uncle said he want to go Langkawi and ask my 5th uncle bring his family too. Since in March, my little cousins have one week school holiday, so we plan to go Langkawi on 8th March 2008 - 10th March 2008 (3 days 2 nights). They want me to arrange accommodation and transportation during our stay at Langkawi.

Since my youngest sister been there before, so ask her for the accommodation that she stayed. The accommodation was Century Suria, Services Apartment. I booked 1 unit with 3 bedrooms (standard) for our stay and find the telephone number of car rental company for my 5th uncle to call them.

Do you know what happen next?

One weeks after I booked the accommodation, our Malaysia's Prime Minister announced that 8th March 2008 will be the Election Day. I asked myself why always have something come out after I plan to have a trip? So, I asked my 5th uncle do they want to postpone the date of booking? They said can, so I sent email to Century Suria again to check for room availability on 9th March and 10th March 2008. The company replied me that they still have room for these days.I am lucky. So, the date of Langkawi trip have postpone to 9th March 2008 - 11th March 2008. Hahahahaha.....

Tomorrow will be the day we going to Langkawi. So, please wait for the latest update of my Langkawi trip.

"Langkawi, Here I come!"

Home Made Sweet Buns

These were the sweet buns which I baked recently. I saw the recipe in the recipe book bought by my aunt, so I went to bakery supply shop bought a pack of high protein flour (for bread) and get other ingredients (sugar, corn oil, water, yeast, etc) from my refrigerator and kitchen to start making it.

To make these buns, I spent almost 4 to 5 hours in the kitchen to knead them and let the dough prove to double. Then knead again and let it prove again. The steps must repeat at least 3 times. Then the dough is ready to bake. Finally, the buns is done.

Now I really know that making bread without using machine is no easy as we think because after all done, my two shoulders were very pain. And my family member said that they rather go to buy at the bread shop. But I really enjoy during I making the dough. Next time I going to make it again. So BREAD! See You Soon!