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 Traveller's Tales: Places to go and see in Langkawi, Malaysia
Take a tour of the top places to go in Langkawi, Malaysia. You may read about must see places and activities in the area. Also, you might want to read our
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| B Rydbeck |
01 March 2001 |
Stayed at Kampung Tok Senik Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Langkawi is beautiful and unexploited (we really hope that it will not be destroyed by more hotels and tourist attractions)! The charm of the island is that it seems so undestroyed.
There are three golfcourses. We played one of them. Datai is the best course and absolutely comparable to other first class golf courses. The other two courses need enhancement but are satisfying if your expectations with regard to qualities of the greens etc are not too high.
We went around the island by own car and visited the glass factory (were we actually bought some small and beautiful flacons). We visited the Mangrove restaurant. I am sure this reataurant could be recommended for dinner (however, it was neither lunch nor dinner time when we were there). The walk through the mangrove field was an experience.
We made an island-hopping-tour. It was arranged by the hotel and included pick-up at the hotel and a great boat trip visiting three different islands. Our stay at kpmpung Tok was four nights. We had all breakfasts and two dinners at our hotel (besides snacks and drinks at the pool). Other luncheons and dinners we had at some of the other hotels. We had only good experiences regarding food and service.
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| M Curcher |
31 January 2001 |
Stayed at Grand Continental Langkawi - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Trip to the top of Gunung Raya is recommended.
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| R Stroem |
31 January 2001 |
Stayed at City Bayview Langkawi - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Langkawi is a beautiful place to visit. We were there for the Ironman Malaysia and the whole race course was superb. We visited the usual tourist spots such as as the Underwater World, the Waterfalls, the Craft Museum and the Galerie Museum, which were all great. We discovered a good restaurant called Dominos which catered more to the Western taste.
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| F Nilsson |
24 January 2001 |
Stayed at Grand Continental Langkawi - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Langkawi is a very beutiful island, but you should go there soon, before it gets to much like every other island. We have been ther twice and like it very much. If you play golf, visit the Golf Clubs, itīs almost free. Go for a snorkerling trip to Pulah Payar, itīs the best snorkerling trip we have ever done. The restaurants is good, try the small ones, the are clean and servs very good food. Langkawi Yacht Club is a one of the best restaurant, maybe a little bit expensive. On the beach there are several good restaurants, the best are located near the Underwater World. If itīs possible, stay at the beach. There are so many good hotels there and the view from many of them is beauiful!
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| M Chadwick |
09 January 2001 |
Stayed at Tanjung Rhu Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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The bay which the TR is located on is beautiful, but has lots of spiny urchins, so be sure to wear water shoes if you go out more than a few meters.
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| L Gaudioso |
05 January 2001 |
Stayed at Lanai Langkawi Beach Resort, The - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Nice island, nice beaches, nice nature in the inner parts, very easy and cheap
travelling by car on rent (found with the help of the hotel staff).
Wonderful island droppings for some hours in the many near islands.
Nice restaurants are Cactus and many others of which I forgot the name, but,
anyway, we never got bad meals anywhere, so try as many as possible!
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| M Poprawa |
03 January 2001 |
Stayed at Lanai Langkawi Beach Resort, The - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Langkawi is a nice, quiet but still a little underdeveloped place. Be sure to take with you the medicine against common cold or food poisoning. If you have been unlucky to catch one of these, the nearest pharmacy is in Kuah town, twenty minutes drive (MR 14 taxi fare) from Pantai Tenang, where we stayed. Otherwise you have to visit an estabilishment called Global Clinic,next to Underwater World at Pantai Cenang, which is rather an unforgotteable experience. After catching cold I went there to get some medication. There were two ladies: one of them a receptionist, the other one a doctor (so it seemed). I asked for some simple, "over the counter" remedy for my condition. The receptionist registered my case, first by filling in a lenghtly registration form, afterwards both ladies tried to enter the information I had given them to the computer. All of this took about twenty minutes, making me regret the idea of using their services. But the end of my visit there went far beyond my expectations: all I got was six lozenges at rip-off price of MR 15 (appr.4 USD), they even couldn't find Aspirine tablets! Taxi service cheap, at fixed fares between locations. During holidays rubbish lays uncollected along the road in Pantai Cenang and Pantai Tenang, as there is almost no pavements, you have to watch your steps. Underwater World: interesting, but poor ventilation, low level of oxygen makes you feeling tired. Nice handicrafts, but about 40% more expensive than at Handicraft Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
Mrs Ewa Poprawa
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| M Kaiser |
03 January 2001 |
Stayed at Beach Garden Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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The beach in front the hotel is "sugarsandy" and clean. But the Patang Cenang Beach in general, where the hotel is located, could be much more cleaner. Cans, plastic bottles don't belong to such a
nice place.
Don't book the snorkling trip offered every where on Lankawi! It's badly overprized (150 RM) and the
snorkling spot is overcrowed. Hundreds of tourist are walking with their flippers and life vests in a small pool of cloudy
water. Instead of watching fish, you see plastik bags and old tires. The left overs from the provided snack
are given to remaining fish. This place is called a National Park ...
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| R Nieto |
02 January 2001 |
Stayed at Tanjung Rhu Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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I would recommend hiring a car for a day - the hotel has it's own convertibles - to tour around the island - and stop off for lunch at the Datai.
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| K Harding |
02 January 2001 |
Stayed at City Bayview Langkawi - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Langkawi has very limited shopping, Western food and entertainment facilities. Avoid the crocodile farm and show - the crocodile dance is pathetic and would upset many people (a handler dancing with a crocodile on his shoulders)! The Underwater World facility is excellent as is also the snorkelling or diving trips to Pulau Payar. The Malaysian people are delightful, honest and helpful. Be careful renting hire cars that - even though ordered through the hotel - are often just cars leased out from private owners or friends of the hotel staff. Surely there would be big problems in the event of an accident !
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