Island Hopping, Langkawi

Another trip during early August with my coursemate reason being cannot resist cheap ticket from airasia. We bought our KL-Langkawi two ways air flight ticket below RM50. It's so much cheaper if we are comparing by travelling with ferry from Penang to Langkawi and the time taken is much longer.

This post is about the island hopping we experience in Langkawi which took us 4 hours+ being our main activities for our second day. We booked our tour one day before from the jetty. We managed to get ourselves discount and booked a small boat for RM250. The normal price is usually RM300, you can bargain with them and normally received great deal if it's off peak season.

So, here's us waiting for our boat at 1.30pm, and another us when we are on the boat on the way to our first destination taking selfie with selfie stick with an iphone. The wind is super strong, hair just blow and tangle up itself in the end, going back spending hours to untangle it. *pity hair*

Our first destination is the lake of the pregnant woman, Pulau Dayang Bunting. This place requires a RM10 entrance fees per person. We are given one hour to spend here. To reach the lake, it require approximate 10 minutes of walking up a long flight stairs up the mountain and down from the other side. 

The scenery here is beautiful surrounded by mountains with dense forest, so fresh you would want to jump into the lake and swim. But note that the lake is very deep, if you doesn't know how to swim, you are advice to be accompany by someone who swims and wear on your life jacket in the correct way buckling all up. None of the girls went down except me as they don't know how to swim and we didn't bring our life jacket along with us leaving it just on the boat.

The water here is just so refreshing where I wish to spent more time here swimming freely in the lake. But too bad, my attire that day doesn't allowed me to do so. This place is highly recommended for swimmers.

We played also the traditional game, sumpit (blow pipe), 6 bullet for RM3. This guy below managed to hit the jackpot :)

Our second destination, Pulau Singa Besar. This is the place for eagle feeding show. The boatman will throw a few pieces of chicken slice on the lake and reverse a little stopping the engine. And in no time, you will see eagle diving down clawing the chicken piece. We reached there around 3pm and by that time the eagle is already full being fed in the morning by lots of other boatman. The best time to watch the eagle feeding will be in the morning where the eagles are starved the whole night and are hunger for food the next day explained our boatman. But still we managed to have a close view of eagles flying in the sky.

Here's our last destination, Pulau Beras Basah. This is an island with soft white sand and beach like. We are given an hour to spent here as well. The girls now is enjoying their sweet time on beach and finally touch down the water as it's shallow. Took a few more shots on them before I joined the water as the scenery here is beautiful too with lesser people compared to Pantai Cenang where is flooded with tourist.

The throwing game starts immediately after we landed

With her beach outfit, I eagerly wanted to snap a few modelling shots of SingYing (hers)

JJ walk away before I get to snap his pose. I'm too slow on pressing the shutter button and miss a few more shots of his

The semi-dry me snapping a photo

Not sure what Gan trying to do, digging hole with leg?

He's caught in action for throwing the sand to others in the water

Just a random shot of Brandon Chong?

And a shot of JJ swimming freely in the sea?

We managed to have a little walk leaving footprint on the sand. Walking to the bridge (jetty like) to snap a few photo of us with the scenery with Gan's new selfie stick. We too spot a few monkeys.

We later end our island hopping by sitting the boat back to the jetty. If there's any more second visit, I would love to have the island hopping in the reverse way as the beach is a little dirty for me leaving sand and saltiness on me. So, I would love to visit the lake last by jumping into the lake and wash away all the dirt, haha! Very evil of me trying to pollute the clean lake. You can discuss your sequences of island hopping with your boatman, just talk to them :) By the way, the sequences of this island hopping of mine is being suggested by my friend who previously visited here. As he said, we get to enjoy our last destination at the beach more and a few more beach activities can be done after all the visit as the girls here don't know how to swim.

If you guys who are reading this article, enjoy your trip!