Langkawi Tourism Malaysia

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Langkawi is an archipelago located in the northwestern Malaysian state of Kedah, bordering Thailand. Langkawi consists of 99 islands, also known as the island of Langkawi Eagle by the name, it comes from the Malay Lang Helang word means eagle. This is also the area with lots of eagles live, now a day's tour in Langkawi are put guests off the island to observe eagles eagles hunting or for food. Langkawi is also a favorite destination for tourists because the island is located in the duty-free area.

Langkawi two most crowded area is the center of Kuah Town (point A) and Pantai Cenang beach area (point B). Kuah Town Pier, located at the airport are located in Pantai Cenang beach. These two regions are separated by approximately 20km road passes.

Langkawi Tourism

Fly to Langkawi

Since Vietnam has a lot of airlines that fly to Langkawi, forward in Kuala Lumpur, but more common is Vietnam Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and low-cost carrier AirAsia. You absolutely can book tickets from Kuala Lumpur to Langkawi nonstop flight in just over 1 hour. AirAsia, the frequent promotional fares below 30 $ / evening so can say quite easily be able to buy cheap tickets to fly to Langkawi.

Speedboat go Langkawi

Langkawi dock with the scale and frequency of operation is very large. Every day there are many high-speed trains (ferry) to Langkawi from Kuala Perlis dock, pier Kuala Kedah, from the island of Penang, Malaysia and the island of Satun, Thailand. No need to buy a train ticket before that can buy directly at the pier.

Travelling in Langkawi

- Taxi: if you travel in groups of 3-5 people, this is the choice of the most cost savings. Taxi in Langkawi lot, does not follow that if you say clock destination, the driver will give price and be able to bid. Prices common taxi when moving between two zones is 24RM (calculated less than 9k / km). So if moving between different points, you can preview on the map or google maps, calculate distances and pay a similar price.

- Self-Driving Car: some family traveling were routinely hire self-drive cars to may itself planned to move the family. But if self-drive car hire for your special attention to two issues involved when driving in Langkawi.

+ First: in Malaysia, the vehicle moves in the opposite direction with Vietnam.

+ Second: most beautiful road in Langkawi but the road passes. So if you have not experienced for this category would be the best way to take a taxi for comfort.

Self drive car hire in Langkawi cost ranges between 120-200RM / day depending on car type. Conditions must have a license, but does not require an international driver's license that would translate notary license in Vietnam.

At the pier or airport Langkawi offers plenty of stalls providing information about the hotel, all kinds of tours, car rental services ... so you can easily register rental car here. Or can contact car rental directly at the hotel that I stay.

- Motorcycles: motorcycles are moving vehicle maneuverability and comfort on the island of Langkawi. Car rental oscillator about 15-30RM / day 24 hours depending on type vehicle. You can rent on-site yourself in (higher price but not the deposit) or rented at many of the shops along the way car rental in Pantai Cenang, such as T-shop (cheaper but must deposit 1 passport and 50RM / car).

Hostel Langkawi

Once arrived at the airport or pier, you can contact the tourist information desk to ask your counselor to help book the hotel without charge. Staff are very enthusiastic advice for you, after the exchange request, if you book by room, staff will fill in the questionnaire on which the complete hotel information, address, number of rooms, number of persons for driver taxi take you to the correct address on the ballot. If you are not satisfied there is ok but remember speaking with staff at the counter, the advice is if satisfied that a new check.

However, the best way is still the front room you book through reputable sites like www.agoda.vn (visa card). Because on the weekends or holidays, tourists to Langkawi quite crowded, you should reserve for active and more confident.

The selection of rooms, type of property depends on the purpose of your trip, your tastes, you go with someone ....

- If this is a romantic trip: you can choose to relax in the resort, private beach and a full range of services ... with prices ranging 500-600RM / room. You can refer to Berjaya Langkawi Resort: very impressed with the design is a series of floating on the water on stilts along the coast, the road to the resort was way up the hill with the green clearing. This resort is located in the East Village area, rather secluded so well suited for the couple go on their honeymoon. There are many other resorts with lower rates, around 200-300RM / room but equally romantic as: Sheraton Langkawi Beach Resort Langkawi Lagoon Resort ... or

- If you prefer the vibrant bustle, choose hotels near Pantai Cenang beach. This hotel is about 100-120RM area / room is quite nice. For example Adina Drive In Motel: each room is a wooden house, close to the coast so you can walk along the beach or swimming in the early morning ...

- If you travel with your group of its dust, it is very easy to find a room for around 80-100RM / rooms for 2 to 3 people in the region Pantai Cenang or Kuah Town (with you like shopping) book a room through the website listed above. Or rent dorm format for 20-25RM / bed in the dormitory, you may refer to The Cottage Langkawi.

The attractions in Langkawi

Cenang Beach

Go Langkawi is a destination not to be missed is the beach, which is also crowded area on the island's busiest. According to his assessment, the Langkawi beach is quite crowded, bustling and quite chaotic and like their beaches. Also not very clean, their Danang Beach as cleaner. There are also services such as restaurants or beach bar ... for being late. Also, at the beach there are many game services such as water motorbike (120RM / 30 '), parachute (70RM / person), surf ... and have both mobile tour's vehicle companies tourism or travel agent offering guest. According to my personal opinion, the public beach in beautiful Langkawi not as advertised as the "paradise of heaven" where only the private beach of the resort is very beautiful, the right only. (But it is only equivalent to the beaches of Vietnam)

And Langkawi Cable Car Skybrigde

This is a cable car service from the station in the East Village on tour path overhead. Fares 30RM / adults, can be purchased at the station or at the advance purchase ticket agents.

Up to the cable car station on the mountain, you can walk on the path of the world's most unique. But note that should go into the sunny day to be able to watch the scene majestic mountains, panoramic Kuah Bay with gorgeous yachts below. This is one of the most attractive destinations worth visiting and when to Langkawi.

Oriental Village

DDay is a hotel complex, shopping mall, entertainment deep in the mountains, Pantai Cenang beach about 18km coastal road. You can find restaurants, clothing stores, salons spa, cultural exhibition featured products of Malaysia ... here.

Eagle Square Eagle Square

Square is located on the marina area, close to the sea, with a statue of an eagle - the symbol of Langkawi island, also known as the square of stars. If you come to Langkawi by speedboat, you can see the square tabular remotely, from the ship prepared to dock. If you arrive by plane Langkawi, you can see clearly the star shape of the Eagle Square.

Telega Habour Marina Park

DDay the pier for yachts of all kinds, there are thousands of yachts are moored here. Dock is located across the street from Pantai Cenang beach to the East Village so you can easily come here sightseeing. And if you have passion for your trip with a boat that went along with a large group, you can contact to rent a beach to stroll on.

Some other places if you have the time to go

• Parks Conservation Pilau Payar marine ecology: Geoparks in Langkawi, with flora and fauna is very rich, especially with a lot of monkeys and very bold with tourists.
• Paradise Bird Paradise: located east of the island of Langkawi, designed mimicking the natural habitat of birds.
• Crocodile Farm: Located in the town of Kubang Badak with thousands of different types of crocodiles.
• Underwater World Underwater World: near Pantai Cenang beach area, is a recreation area under water, especially with renewable living area cold Antarctica with penguins frolicking with ice.

The tour should Langkawi

If you go to Langkawi without selecting a few tours to the island of Langkawi as you do not go then. Tour the islands here like canoeing tour to the islands in Nha Trang or tours from Cua Dai Cham Island. But there are particular attractions. The tourist information desk at the airport or pier will give you a few dozen tours to choose from. Indeed, the tour has its similarities, some tourists tour is not recommended as they attract advertising. So you can choose one of the tour including below or if you prefer take the train to the island, bathing in the pristine beaches on the island with blue sea, white sand, each day you can take a tour to to experience.

Hoping Island Tour

select number 1 for those you love to travel around the island in a short time. Tour lasted about 4 hours, price for one adult 25-30RM. Purchase ticket at the tourist information desk at the hotel or at the dealer at the coast, the prices are the same, only if you want to transfer 5RM hotel or herself from moving to the area dealers request. All tours are available in fact a scenario, will take you on a tour through the three points, only the train driver informed of the location and welcome to the time specified in that point but no guides Tourism comes.

+ The first point is a rather off-shore islands, like Cham Island in Hoi An, you can enjoy swimming and playing here for 1 hour. Note that on the island there is only one restaurant offers drinks, no toilet or dressing room, so you should wear swimsuits available before boarding. Beautiful beaches, clear blue water just like the beaches in the island of Vietnam.

+ The next tours take you to an area where there are so many eagles to hunt. The tour service information is always given as "the eagle eating" but not the guests are given where eagles eat, which is the helmsman would throw away the small fish, and in turn the whole herd of eagle swooping down to catch prey. They lined up very orderly and in turn break down, very spectacular.

+ The last point is the point of the Island Hoping special Tour of Langkawi Geopark - Ho pregnant Maiden Lake. A freshwater lake located on a high mountain, the ocean has a very special beauty associated with a local legend about a fairy who falls in love with his female fishermen that left God commands, put down ceiling should have been living God changed her into a deserted island located between the sea.

Tour also has its own distinctive features but according to my personal assessment, it can not by tour 4 islands in Nha Trang or Cham Island tour in Hoi An.

Mangrove Tour

This is also a boat tour, but in the mangrove area of ​​sea Geopark Langkawi tour like sailing in his Gio. But in terms of service, than with the way in Gio and also has a separate attraction. During the trip, you will see the lives of a lot of wild animals and plants in the area. Mangrove Island Hoping Tours like the Tour but longer, tourists will join this tour from morning to afternoon, a car shuttle to take hotel, save your time and more relaxed point. Mangrove Tour also has multiple rates for different specific content, prices ranged from 90-220RM / person including lunch. Attraction of this tour is the Bat Cave, a cave deep in the limestone, tourists use flashlight, go into the cave and will witness scenes scattered bats hanging from the ceiling hang . Then the ships bringing tourists to the inlet area, nature watching dolphins and eagles prey - typical of Langkawi. The Mangrove tour with high prices are usually accompanied by tour guides in addition to the program of water sports or adventure sports like scuba diving, kayaking ... with coaches and other accessories professional support .

Sunset Dinner Cruise

This is not exactly one tour in Langkawi archipelago, which is a walking tour around the sea within 3h sunset, Jacuzzi in a style that you hardly can imagine and enjoy dinner on travelers boat, very suitable for couples who love romance. With about 40 guests, the atmosphere on the yacht is quite cozy and intimate. Fares 220RM / person is worthy of the service you are served within this 3h.

Shopping in Langkawi

Langkawi is considered duty-free paradise for tourists, so tourists come here to shop for delight. However, on the actual goods is not very diverse, mostly alcohol, tobacco and chocolate. Especially the chocolate is extremely rich in variety, brand, price is only half than in Kuala Lumpur, appropriate to buy as a gift. What you thix to Langkawi for shopping, you should rent property in Kuah Town area. Hotels here in terms of the average price cheaper than the Pantai Cenang area but near the mall, the commercial center and the night market.

- Jetty Point Duty Free Complex: shopping complex of docks, located next to Eagle Square. The popular item here is the perfume, crafts, wine is chocolate. Very appropriate for tourists to Langkawi by speedboat, while waiting for the train, guests can enjoy comfortable shopping in the duty free area.

- Saga Shopping Center: located in Kuah Town, is a chain of stores with a smaller scale but the goods have a wider variety of items with ceramics and crystal anymore. The mother on Webtretho have commented on the purchase of wares here very cheap and beautiful.

Address: Jln Penarak, 07000 Kuah, Kedah

- Langkawi Parade Mega Mall: there are many items like the majority of other commercial centers but often have discount programs attractive to tourists.

Address: Langkawi Parade Kuah, Langkawi 07000, Malaysia

- The Spa Shop: a point worth a visit if you have the need to purchase products of natural origin for the purpose of a spa at home. The most popular product here is rice bran and cotton bath milk made from loofah

Address: 52, Jalan Pandak Mayah 5, Pusat Bandar Kuah

- Cote De Perfume: if you want to try the perfume scent is hot in the world and buy it with no tax rates, then you should visit this store. Also, you can buy a few local perfume perfumed charm quite cheaply for gifts for friends and relatives.

Address: 16, Jalan Pandak Mayah 6, Pusat Bandar Kuah

- Zone Shopping Paradise: located at Pantai Cenang beach, right next to the water park, the place to meet the shopping needs of tourists stay at the beach. But really neither goods as diverse as the largest commercial center in Kuala Lumpur.

Note: the shopping centers are open quite late, at 10am and closes pretty early, around 9: 00-10: 00 pm.

In addition to shopping at the trade center, tourists can buy handicrafts items, souvenirs, toys local cultural particularities in the Night Market. Place the night market is just very clearly on the map of Langkawi. So as to the airport or pier, first grab a map, in order to determine the necessary positions. The night market in Langkawi open daily. Cenang area, with Thursday night markets. Kuah Town area open market on a Saturday night ... and the night market in another position is open on Wednesdays or Sundays. And the night market here are open at 17:00 to 22:00.

Eating in Langkawi

Langkawi is a duty free paradise so imported beers here are very cheap compared to other states in Malaysia. If in Penang, 1 beer is priced near 10RM is here only more cost 2RM. So a lot of Malaysians in neighboring states often go to the island of Langkawi to enjoy the weekend with family.

Although this is a rare island but fresh seafood, all the restaurants are serving frozen seafood. Before entering the restaurant, the menu and you just see the previous price. But because the beer is very cheap here so most restaurants do not sell beer, but other beverages sold.

Malaysia is a Muslim country so the food here does not appear pork (pork). Even in his dishes in Vietnam's capital eat pork, then it is converted into chicken. Doner Kebap bread or pizzas, burger bars are chicken and beef, no pork.

Langkawi Island is a tourist island so apart from Force India Malaysia, China maps, map India, there are many different restaurants serving European - Asian or fast food chains like KFC, Mc Donald also easily found here.

Pantai Cenang beach area also includes mobile food stalls, selling fried breaded seafood, dotted with chili and a sweet black cloths, pretty happy mouth. There are crabs, shrimp, breaded fried chicken ... pretty cheap prices. You can buy some of this, a few cans of beer in the supermarket and the beach sit, drink, so had a hearty dinner before.

Eat something at Pantai Cenang

- Orkid Ria Seafood Restaurant: This is the largest seafood restaurant in the beach, tourists lined up around a large table here, guests can choose seafood, restaurant weighed and processed immediately . Prices are also on par with the surrounding restaurants, but look at the size of the largest in the area. However, you will have to wait a long time to put desks if not before (Tel: 604 955 4128), and also have to wait very long to be served food (because a restaurant is too crowded).

- Nasi Kandar Tomato: diner serves India 24 / 24h (closed on Tuesdays), very popular among Malaysians. This is a popular restaurant type, price of food can be said is very cheap but the quality of food is excellent, of course, to those you can eat Indian food.

- Right lane Nasi Kandar Tomato shop next, there's a food court-style eatery serves a variety of Chinese dishes and Malaysia. You should try the dishes with fruit grinding stone here.

- D'grill Seafood Restaurant: a seaside restaurant serves grilled seafood and Thai dishes quite interesting. You can sit here just to have dinner while watching the sunset island.

- You can easily catch a lot of bar, restaurant open to the sea starting in the afternoon, serving beer and drinks to tourists and evening will have barbecue or catering by Course. You just pick a beautiful spot, sit down and be entertained until dark 9-10h.

Delicacies in Kuah Town

- Water Garden Hawker Centre: Located in the heart of Kuah Town, this area is considered a food market that tourists should also look at a few things to enjoy here. The cuisine of Malaysia, Thailand, India, China are found here in the daytime. As evening turned into restaurants market seafood, guests can manually choose seafood and request processing restaurant with very pleasant rates.

- Wonderland Food Restaurant: a restaurant that serves only in the afternoon, with a friendly atmosphere, fast service with an acceptable price. This is considered as a restaurant serving the best seafood on the island of Langkawi.

- Restoran Nasi Ayam Pak Haji Ya: diner is considered most appropriate for foreign tourists prefer to enjoy the local cuisine. For here have style processing is simplified compared with the original food, the spices were adjusted to better suit foreign and very cheap price so visitors can comfortably try the food here . The restaurant closes at 6pm.

- Barn Thai Restaurant: Thai restaurant a very special thanks to a location deep in the mangrove forests. Prices here are more expensive than the restaurants mentioned above and serves original Thai dishes, in addition to serving both sing live jazz. But we can say this is a unique restaurant and the price you pay is inclusive of all the special services listed above.

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