Langkawi, Kedah (1)

In December 2008, we went to Langkawi Island. Ferry trip from Kuala Kedah took about 1 1/2 hour to reach Kuah and the costs, RM23/adult and RM17/child for one-way trip.

Jetty at Kuah, Langkawi

We stayed at Langgura Baron Chalet located at Chenang Beach at RM130/night during peak season (I'm not sure of off-peak season's price).

Chenang Beach

Chenang Beach

One of the restaurants near Chenang Beach that caught my attention

Our main objective : Langkawi Cable Car. The costs : RM28/adult dan RM18/child (3 - 12 y/old).

Entrance to Langkawi GeoPark

top station from base station

Cable car will not be operated due to strong wind. The other alternative available is the Animals Garden.

Animals Garden

Deer feeding

A ride on an Elephant

(more to come)

Cameron Highlands, Pahang - Final Part

Enjoy my best shots of the flowers (I'm not a pro. :-) )

I like this one

Cameron Highlands, Pahang - Part 2

The next day, we went to Mardi research centre - plants research centre.

the kids enjoy feeding all the fish (their foods available at the entrance at RM0.50 / packet)

roses

daisy

cactus

grapes

Next we're looking for souvenirs here. Quite cheap compared to the other places that we went.

Cameron Highland, Pahang, Malaysia - Part 1

From Cherating, we headed to Cameron Highlands. Due to wrong route information, we ended up in Gua Musang. We spent over night there. The next morning, we 're off to the Highland. The air was a bit chilled when we reached Boh Tea Plantations. It was drizzling.

Boh Tea Plantation one-stop centre

from the view point - tea plantation

Late in the afternoon, we went to the strawberry farm. Unfortunately, fresh strawberries were not available. We bought a few strawberry jam, cordials, dried strawberry and syrup.

strawberry plant

home-made strawberry ice-cream

Cherating, Pahang, Malaysia

Cherating was our next destination. We stayed at the Holiday Villa.

Unfortunately, the weather was a bit cloudy and the horizon was not that clear. During the stay, we went to a few places to buy souvenirs, fish/prawn chips including a visit to turtle sanctuary on the last day. Luck wasn't on our side because on that night they are about to release the baby turtles to the sea.

Cherating Beach

Cherating Beach

Kemasik Beach, Trengganu

Kemasik Beach

Sea products and chipsTurtle sanctuary

baby turtles that they are about to release to the sea

National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

My family went to the National Planetarium last month. We had a chance to attend one of the mini show entitled "active universe". Pretty Interesting!

From the website

soyuz - if I'm not mistaken

the ISS model

the so called black hole

For the show

KL Tower - from the observatory point

display in the Planetarium

After that, we went to the Islamic Arts Museum located just the opposite of the National Mosque. We were not allowed to take any photos of the artifacts and scripts inside the museum.

From the outside