Langkawi, Day 5

We leave Langkawi early morning, as we have a 10am flight plane to catch. As promised, we just leave the rent-car unlocked at the airport and phone the rent-car company - unbelievably simple!

We transit at KL:


And return HK around 4pm. Good time to get back home, have a hot shower, a dinner, and a SILENT NIGHT..... zzzzzzzzzzzzz.................

Langkawi, Day 4

We enjoy the not-so-big pool once more this morning. Both kid are better suit in the water, and they play quite happily there. The following photo was un-retouched: the special effect is caused by the water on the lens.





In the afternoon, we go to the Eagle Square: the famous landmark of Langkawi. We try to look enjoying in the photos, but it is really toasting like hell.









It's basically a in-car trip in the afternoon. We drive around the island, see the strange shape hills, and stop by a few spots, including Durian Perangin Fall (does it look like our Bride Pool in HK?):





The crocodile farm:


A Tanjung Rhu beach:


It is a hot day, and we loss a lot of energy even we stay most of the day inside the car. We go to dinner at the same restaurant at Pental Cenang we dine on the first night again, because it is really nice. We tried the butter fried pawn and lobster this time. Yummy!!


PS: our two family loss each other for 30 mins. It's annoying especially when we are exhausted in a hot place! Next time we really should bring a set of walkie.

Langkawi, Day 3

After a long-day to the coral island, we stayed at the hotel for this morning. Of course, I mean the pool and the beach...




Unlike yesterday, the sun shines today. We have some nice portrait at the hotel lobby when we go out for a ride in the noon time:




We have our lunch at the Cenang Beach again. the pizza shop is not bad, but the beach and the motel house are very very nice- with a nice beach and shining sun, who need to luxury of a resort hotel?


We then drive to the Langkawi Cable Car. Wow! I think it's a must-visit if you are going to Langkawi. The cable car and the suspension bridge was built on rocky cliff (imgine building such things to our Lion Rock), quite spectacular. What's more, the Malaysian did a great job to preserve the primary forest at the area. Sigh to the ugly concrete 'service-trail' along our 360 cable car, suck HK!





The sun shined like oven today. How would it be if we go to the coral island toady? Will the water be clearer?

Langkawi, Day 2

It should be existing today: we have the tour to the famous coral platform at Pulau Payar Marine Park today.


Breakfast at hotel is okay, but there are too much India / Malaysia food that I never touch it.


When arrive, I am very disappointed: the sun is not shining, and the visibility of the water is not good at all. (The water is green, and a lot of particles in the water. Perhaps it's the algae?)

Nevertheless, Alex is very excited cause there are tons of fish for him to feed:




There are plentiful of snorkel tools on the platform. With my F10 and underwater housing, I am able to catch some glimpse of clown fish and corals:




It's extremely difficult to stable myself under-water (thanks to strong current and my natural buoyancy). I really should learn to scuba dive next time.

OTHER UNDERWATER PHOTOS ARE HERE

For dinner, we planned to drive to Kuah town again, but we loss. Instead we go to Cenang Beach and have dinner at this nice restaurant:


We have grilled tiger-pawn, it's nice. But I really recommend to try butter tiger-pawn... it's excellent (we tried that on day-4).

Langkawi, Day 1

Making use of the Christmas holiday, I am taking a 5-day trip to Langkawi together with Allan & Janice's family. There is not direct flight from HK, so we take the 4-hour flight to KL, than transit via in-land flight.


The only public transportation on the island is taxi. So we rent this car, at RM500 for 5-day. The car-rent company don't need to check my passport or my driving license. Return the car is even more simple: I just need to park at the airport carpark, with key inside and leave the car unlock, then phone the guy. That's it.

Not bad for a 7-seater, but it's lacking of power. Is it poor maintainance?

When everything set-in, it's already dinner time. Thanks to Allan's great nevigation, we drive to Kuah town and have our dinner at a outdoor Chinese restaurant. This is the Kuah town:


ALL PHOTOS FROM THE TRIP ARE HERE