Wednesday, 2009-07-08

Island Hopping and Duty Free Shopping

Last day in Langkawi, we joined the Island Hopping tour package.

Rm35 per head for a 4 hour tour. 

Brought to 3 different places in the vicinity of Langkawi's southern satellite islands.

This is the starting point. A small docking place located behind Awana Resort Hotel.

Cleanliness of the beach is much to be desired.

Sea was crystal clear under the late morning sun.

It looked as if we were skiing on ice.

This is Pulau Dayang Bunting aka Island of Pregnant Maiden.

It harbours a fresh water lake called Tasik Dayang Bunting.

Women facing infertility problem are encouraged to take a dip in their lake and consequently become fertile and be able to conceive..

(thats according to local folklore of course)

Say hello to 1 of the locals who welcomed us with his mating season frenzy (u get the picture).

Anyway this guy here is obviously the alpha male, and he is HUGE~.

Huge hunky or huge obese i can't tell, its a fine thin line between those 2 for him.

...And i wonder where he's getting his protein supplement from...

Alrite, enough with the obsession..

Well so far we found Langkawi a nice local destination for holiday or honeymoon.

Would recommend at least 3 days on the island for a satisfying and rewarding experience.

Working our way up towards the "miracle" lake.

For women who long to bear children, its like a quest for the Holy Grail.

.......

Climbed down the stairs and...

Ta~ da~

Behold. Lake of the Pregnant Maiden.

Here's a quiz : (In the book of Genesis) At what age did God open Sarah's womb to conceive Isaac?

There are floating platforms with cubicles between them for tourist to take a dip.

Adventurous ones would swim in their life-jackets a little beyond the platforms.

We didnt bring our swim wear so we rented a paddle boat and manouvered our way around the lake.

Our boat cost rm15 while the solar boats cost rm30.

This self-explainary information on the notice board wants tourist to be aware that

The lake is not salty eventhough its near the sea because of a "miracle border".

I'm not a geologist so...

Hey whaddaya know its Arabian holiday season. You get to see big size hairy guys and Arabic women in bikinis. Wherever there's water, you'll never fail to spot them because they luurrvee playing in water.

 Apparently its China holiday season too.

Great view.

The place can be quite happening eventhough its currently not Malaysian holiday season.

So we tried to maneuver and paddle around the lake fighting the current. It was warm but peaceful and serene, with ocassional children laughter from a distant.

Spent approximately 1 hour on the island before heading towards Eagle feeding spot.

Basically we are just invading their territory and disturbing their lunch time.

They are not a fan of tourist because our boats scare their fishes away.

On our way there, a few fish farms.

Here's 1 of the many Eagle hunting ground.

Like i mentioned in the previos blog, there are 2 main species of Eagle living together in a common habitat.

Whether cross breed is possible i don't know.

Its quite hard to catch a good close-up picture of them flying around swiftly.

Here's a stretch of fine white sandy beach with crystal clear water on 1 of the satellite islands.

There's no strong wave, water is shallow.

Perfect for sun bathing and small scale watersport, para-sailing is 1 of them.

There is vendor selling sweet young and tender coconut for rm5.

Refreshing and relaxing.

Again we didnt bring our swim wear.

Nevertheless everyting around us is blissful that we didnt need to get ourself wet.:-)

The island hopping tour ended at 12.30pm.

We headed for Langkawi underwater world but found the entrance ticket pricey and not worth the money.

Anyway we have seen Singapore's underwater world.

Never leave Langkawi without buying from duty free shop.

We went to the Zone, same row as Langkawi underwater world. Be aware that prices of the same item differ even among various duty free shops.

For example there can be a diffence of few Ringgit for a bar of imported chocolate.

Got ourself lots of chocolate. Rare ones, but not too expensive.

Neyney got herself perfume which untill today she's feeling too sayang to use.

Bought ourself chocolate chip Haagen Datz and it tasted soo "premium".

These are the things we would never thought of buying in supermarts.

....and not forgetting 2 bottles of red wine we bought yesterday, 1 new world 1 old world.

Knowing that its gonna be a long drive back, we quickly caught the 3.30pm ferry.

We were loaded with stuff.

Ong Bak 2 was playing. Great martial arts. Ending could be better.

Reached Subang before 10pm.