Langkawi Nature Discovery Tour ~ Day Trip to Langkawi ex Penang Part II

This is the continuing post of Langkawi. After our lunch, we proceed to Oriental Village for Langkawi Cable Car. It shower a little while we were on our way to Oriental Village. We were told that if it's rain or too windy, we were not allowed to travel up the hill by cable cars.

Upon arrival to Oriental Village, we have to hand in our identification to our tour guide to purchase tickets for the cable rides. So we have the opportunity to shop and look around the Oriental Village. After a while, we were told by our tour guide that it was too windy and we were not allowed to go up to the hills. Everyone was kinda down but it was the regulation and we should obey.

I myself went up the hill before few years ago and it was such a nice place to look at the beautiful view. If you in the top station, it is about 708M above sea level. You can stop in the middle station as well.

If you need more information about Langkawi Cable Car, you can have a look of this link.

There were many duckling and fishes inside the pond. And I remembered that my daugther was enjoying feeding the rabbit in the mini zoo. After strolling, we say goodbye to this place and proceed to our next destination ~ KILIM KARST GEOFOREST PARK.

KILIM KARST GEOFOREST PARK

We waited for a while to hop into a boat above. This boat trip will bring you to see the "NATURE" green environment. It was quite a lots of fun for you if you like nature environment a lot. I think it would be thrilled for my daughter if she hop on the boat this boat trip. ^-^

Along the way to the FISH FARM

Other boats to and fro from the Jetty

FISH FARM

We stopped at the fish farm to have a look of the fishes. And we were explained by the fish farm staff the nature of the fishes. There were also some fishes feeding. You can try it out if you dare. Photos above are some visitors feeding the STINGRAY. ^-^

Next, we went to the GUA KELAWAR for bat seeing. Inside the cave, you were prohibit to use flash. It's not good for the bats and hope that everyone will obey the rule. ^-^ So that's the best shot i can get inside the caves.

Next........ we went for eagle watching........

Eagles......

More eagles.......

And more.........

After eagles watching, we went to our last stop, that's UNDERWATER WORLD.

UNDERWATER WORLD

This would be fun for those who love animals. There are many sections in there. Such as Fresh Water and Marine Life, Tropical Rain forest Sub- Antarctic Section and .........

Some photos inside Underwater World
We were lucky that we have the chance to view the SEALS feeding & presentation performance. And it was fantastic. Please be aware of the shows time. There are many different times of feeding for other animals as well such as Shark, Freshwater Fishes, African Penguins, Rockhopper Penguins, Otters, Marine Fishes and etc. After that we were proceed to the jetty and waiting to depart to Penang.

Departing to Penang.......

View from the boat deck

Sunset view from boat cabin

This ends our tours. If you like to know more about the tours, please contact:
Langkawi Saga Travel & Tours Sdn Bhd
16 Jalan Tanjung Bungah, Georgetown, 11200 Penang, Malaysia
Tel: 604-899 8822
Fax: 604-890 6068
Email: sales@langkawicoral.com
Website: http://www.langkawicoral.com
GPS: 6.0654, 100.0433

Langkawi Nature Discovery Tour ~ Day Trip to Langkawi ex Penang Part I

On the 19 December 2010, I had an adventure experienced with Langkawi Nature Discovery Tour. Which is a sponsored travel review by Langkawi Coral.

Let me brief you with the itinerary of the tour for a start.

Langkawi Nature Discovery Tour ex Penang

7:30 - 8:00am Check in @ Swettenham Pier, Penang
(It is located opposite to Fort Cornwallis, along Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah)

GPS: 5.419728, 100.344506

* Notes: If you stay in hotel, some arrangement can be done for hotel pick-up (please check with Langkawi Coral - the pick up time would be around 7.15am - 7.55am)

8.15am - Depart for Langkawi by Ferry

Above are photos of the Swettenham Pier, Penang where we depart for Langkawi. And the ferry shown above is one of the ferries that departs for Langkawi.

* Notes: If you worry about sea sick, it is advisable that you took the sea sick medicine 30 minutes before departure.

11.15am Arrive in Langkawi

Above pictures were taken when we arrived at Kuah Jetty, Langkawi.

We were brief by Mr. Jafri about the itinerary for the day. After the briefing, we were lead to the car park area board on van to start our adventure tours. ^o^

* Please note that this tour is on van sharing basis*

Our first stop is to Royal Langkawi Yacht Club for our lunch.

Above are the views that you could see along and from the restaurant - Charlie's Place Waterfront Restaurant. I like the place where you can sit down and enjoy your meals + the sea view.

Charlie's Place Waterfront Restaurant entrance and part of the settings of the restaurant.

11:30 - 12:30pm We have about an hour to enjoy our lunch.

There are five sets of lunch menu to choose from

As a start, every one had Soup - Roasted Cream of Tomato Soup.

Follow by the main menu, photos above on the bottom left is Set 1A - Beef burger with fries and coleslaw topped with cheese. As for the bottom right, it is Set 1B - Chicken burger with fries and coleslaw topped with cheese as well.

Set 2 - Fish and chips with tartar sauce and coleslaw

Set 3 - Club Sandwich with fries and coleslaw

Set4 - Spaghetti Napolitana

Set 5 - Nasi Goreng Kerabu topped with fried egg, 2 chicken satays , pickles and papadam

After the main course, you have some desserts:

Dessert : Vanilla and chocolate ice-cream

Follow by coffee/tea to warp up the meal.

If you fancy with some of the drinks, you can order and pay by yourself as it is not included in the set lunch such as:

Fruit Punch @ RM12, Orange Juice @ RM8, Apple Juice @RM8 and Tiger Beer @ RM7

After the meals, you will have the energy to cope up with the adventure nature tour. So stay tuned for part II for more details of the tour.

In the meantime, I would like to wish all my readers, families and friends - "Happy New Year and all the best in 2011!!"

Langkawi Lagoon Resort Cafe

Location: Langkawi Lagoon Resort

Buffet Breakfast

Nasi Lemak with baked beans, grilled tomatoes, boiled egg and cucumber.

Fried noodles with sambal egg, peanuts, grilled tomatoes and baked beans

Toast with butter, fried noodles, chicken sausage and steamed red bean pau

Omelette

Roti Jala with curry and pancake with honey

Chocolate Chips Muffin and Papaya

Overall, they have many wide selection of foods and drinks. And the fried noodles is excellent!!!!

Tang Lung Live Seafood Restaurant

Location: Pantai Cenang, Langkawi

Opening: 12 noon to 2.30pm

6pm to 11pm

Interior of the restaurant

Baked Crab

Not bad but not the best that I have tested.

Stir fry vegetables

Combination of seafood pot

Horlick Prawn

Never try horlick prawn b4. Basically it is done the same way as nestum prawn. Taste not bad.

Overall the food is quite delicious.

Surfer's Paradise Lobby Lounge

Location: Langkasuka Beach resort

Kuala Muda, Padang Matsirat, 07100 Langkawi, Kedah.

Tel: 604 -9556888

Western Buffet Breakfast serve by the hotel. We upgrade to western buffet which cost us $4.50 each. They did not charge gal.

Some of the foods we ate:

My breakfast

Egg

Omelette

They also serve cereals, fruits, toast bread..............

Conclusion: We don't really like the food that they serve.

Roo Tian Seafood Restaurant

Location: Langkawi

Stir Fry Hong Kong Kailan with garlic

The kailan is very young. Very nice......

Steam Fish Ball (Restaurant Specialty)

This is the restaurant specialty. We never try b4 steam fish ball. It is very nice, not salty at all.

Marmite Chicken

The sauce is not bad but the chicken is over fried. A bit hard!!!!!

Steam Cod Fish

Very rich of omega.......... not bad.......
Overall the food is quite nice and not salty at all.