Travelogue: Langkawi - Day 2

14 March 2016

SkyDome, Langkawi Cable Car, 3D museum, Skyrex

We started our day shine and bright after having good rest the night before. First place we are going to is the famous Langkawi Cable Car. There, few other attractions are located such as SkyDome, SkyRex, 3D Museum and etc.

When we arrived there, the queue is already quite long. Well, its school holiday so I understand why there are so many people queuing to get their tickets. I’m lucky to have bought the tickets online so I didn’t have to join the crowds. Pheww. There are 4 or 5 packages that you can choose (I’m not quite sure). The package that I bought for each members of my family is Package B, which consists of SkyDome, Langkawi Cable Car, 3D Museum and SkyRex.

As soon as we got the tickets, we are heading to the cable car location. There, the queue to ride the cable car is already long. Before riding the cable car, we are first headed to SkyDome which are located in the queuing area, before the staffs assist us to the cable car area. SkyDome is just a 5-minutes tayangan video while we were waiting for the cable car to arrive and pick us.

Teehee ;)

View from inside the cable car

There are a total of three station; the lower station, middle station and top station. The lower station is where we first departed and where the SkyDome is located. Then, we rode the cable car to the middle station. You can enjoyed the view at the middle station for a while and taking pictures (that’s me) before queuing back to ride the cable car to the top station. Don’t worry, the queue is not that long compared to when you are queuing at the lower station. You won’t be waiting for so long. The view at the top station is so beautiful, and it is quite cold at the top station. There's a love lock for couples, especially married couples to lock their love so that they will stay together forever. I hope. Also, a sky walk. But we didn't try the sky walk, as we didn't wear proper shoes and the weather is quite hot.  

Love lock :)

After almost an hour enjoying ourselves at the top station, we decided to go back to the lower station. When you are going down to the lower station, you won’t stop at the middle station. The cable car will directly went to the lower station. Arrived at the lower station, we stopped by at the souvenir shop to buy some souvenir. I just bought a keychain and fridge magnet.

Next, we headed to 3D Museum. Well, it’s the same as the one we went at Sabah; full of 3D arts. The difference between these two museums would be their 3D arts and note that this museum is bigger than the museum at Sabah. Another credit to this museum is for their management. Visitors didn’t have to bring their shoes along while going around the museum and while taking pictures. We just need to drop the shoes at the counter at the entrance before going into the museum, and pick them up after completed the tour.

We are left with the last attraction in the package we bought; the Skyrex. We quickly went to the Skyrex area and as expected, the queue is so long. It’s already noon and the weather is quite hot. But, we didn’t give up queuing. After queuing more than half an hour, it’s finally our turn. Skyrex is actually a 10-minutes 4D video about the dinosaurs. We get to experience how it would like to be in the dinosaur’s era, how it would like to survive from the wild and aggressive carnivores. It’s quite fun. I’m happy, and so do my family.

Overall, I’m satisfied to buy this package. It worth the price. Oh yea. You can check the tickets and packages here Langkawi Cable Car: Tickets and Packages. 

We went to the food court first for lunch before going to the next place. After having our lunch, my younger sister had the opportunity to try flying fox for children (not for adult, unfortunately). She was so eager to try it because I told her it was fun. Yeah, flying fox is a fun activity. The fee is RM10/person.

Kampung Kedah: Makam Mahsuri

We are on our way to Kampung Kedah when we discovered a stall selling ABC. Since the weather is hot, we stopped by to eat ABC, donuts and noodle soup. Kikiki. Yea yea I know that we just have our lunch but we couldn’t resist the temptation.

Doesn't it looks so tempting?

We strolling around for more than an hour at Kampung Kedah and visited Mahsuri’s house, her parents’, the well which are used during her time (until now) and Makam Mahsuri. I feel pity for her and her family, if it’s true that she was slandered. But deep down in my heart I think that the story is true. I don’t know.

Beras terbakar

We went Beras Terbakar, next. It’s located at the market selling goods such as T-shirts, medicine oils, and other stuffs. The place where the rice was burnt is quite small and I almost didn’t noticed it until my sister showed it to me. But but! The house there is so beautiful, and it is one of the attraction at Beras Terbakar. People going there will take a shot or many shots of them posing in front of the house (read: stairs) as prove that they have been there at Beras Terbakar. Well, I wouldn’t want to miss taking some prove too, should I? ;)

Location of the 'beras terbakar'

The famous photo-zone :)

We went to the night market to buy some food for dinner before heading home to get some rest and recharge energy for tomorrow’s adventure.

Travelogue: Langkawi - Day 1

It’s become one of my favorite hobby to always check for low fare and affordable tickets, and coincidently Malaysia Airlines is holding a promotion few months before the school holiday in March. After discussing with my family, we thought that the return tickets are cheap, considering it is for four flights; KCH-KUL, KUL-LGK, LGK-KUL and KUL-KCH. So, we decided to go to Langkawi this time and managed to grab the tickets at its low fare.

13 March 2016

Departs early at 9.25 am from Kuching, we arrived KLIA at 11.20 am. While waiting for our next flight to Langkawi, we go around the airport while searching a place to have our lunch. Our flight to Langkawi was supposedly to take off at 1.20 pm, but has been reschedule to be an hour later. So, we arrived Langkawi at 3.20 pm.

Grabbed a map at the arriving hall.

Since we arrived at noon, there’s nothing much we can do. So, we look for our homestay on our own by using a GPS. Before that, the car for our 5 days use have been delivered to us at the airport. After unloading every luggage we have, we decided to buy some toiletries and go for basic groceries shopping. Going around without knowing where exactly we should go, we found Langkawi Plaza on our way and luckily there are few restaurants in front of the mall (on the other side of the road).

And again, food hunting begin. We tried seafood for dinner, before going to the mall and buy things and chocolates. Eh? Hahaha.

First meal at Langkawi Island.

Next, we are heading home for some rest and planning things for tomorrow’s journey. Well, not forgetting to unpack our luggage too. It’s a bit exhausting to start your day early in the morning while busy catching 2 flights on the same day, isn’t?

P/S: If you are a chocolate lover, make sure you hold yourself from going insane ;) There are lots of chocolate and they were selling them cheap. Well, Langkawi is a free-duty zone what?

Travelogue: Sabah – Day 5 (Final)

26 September 2015

So, today is the last day for our vacation in Sabah. Since our flight is at night, we still have some time to go around places near to KK city before flying back home.

Atkinson Clock Tower

It is located at the open space at the center of the city, so anyone can easily found and visit this place. Unfortunately, during our visit there, we didn’t manage to find the clock tower itself. So, to avoid feeling more disappointed, we take some pictures with the signboard. Sounds pity, but yeah.

Sabah Museum

Entrance Fee: RM 2.00 (Malaysian) ; RM 15.00 (Non-Malaysian)

Opening hours: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm

So many antic cars here, leaving me in awe. There are beautiful garden inside the museum but only four of us women are going there. The men are taking some rest at the bench in front of the museum entrance. Cet! Looks like our stamina are better than the men. But never mind, at least we can have some girls bonding time during the period.

The Floating Mosque of Likas

Entrance Fee: Free

Opening hours: All the time

I think this is the first time I have seen the floating mosque during 26 years of my life. Hahahaha sad reality! This mosque is so beautiful that I have taken numerous photos of it as a memories. There are also paddling boats available for those people who wanted to do some activity around the mosque and ejoy the beautiful scenery. And of course, we will never let go the opportunity to ride one. I can’t really remember the fee per person. But I think it is RM5 per person during that time because I think I saw my mom paid RM30 to the staff there, and all of us are riding and paddling the boat (3 person/boat).

This is the last places we went to before heading to the airport and going back to Kuching.

Till we meet again, Sabah!

And...

I will miss this.

Sedaplah jugak.