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Published: February 1st 2016
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Sunday 31 January
Up early and driving across the Island to visit the GeoForest at Kilim. The park is mainly Mangrove Forest covering part of the coastline, where several spectacular green cladded and limestone Islands rise sharply from the Sea. We decide to take a tour by fast motorboat, firstly to visit the large Bat nesting caves, these are literally full of hundreds and hundreds of Bats, two different species, one insect-eating, the other preferring a diet of fruit. We were given torches as the caves are not lit and we guess the bats get used to the torch beams as despite everyone shining them directly at the Creatures, very few seemed bothered and chose to ignore the intrusion. After this a very fast and hairy trip between the islands brought us to a lagoon full of the most magnificent Sea Eagles we would guess over 50 of them, varying greatly in size/age. The Rangers attract them by throwing chicken skins into the water and the display the birds give continually soaring and diving around the boat was worth the visit on it's own, truly wonderful to witness. There seemed to be two distinct types of Sea Eagle , the white
and Golden Brown and a larger almost all white type. Unfortunate Leo had locked the I Pad camera in an editing mode and we had to rely on our small camera for photographs but it really wasn't up to the challenge and didn't do this spectacular sight justice. We finished our tour with another frantic speed trip out into the Andaman Sea with distant views across to Thailand, if you possessed hawk-eyed vision. Returning, we also visited a floating fish farm with many many species of local fish and shell fish, which were patiently displayed by the local fish farmer young man, who was keen for us to handle all sorts of creatures including starfish, groupers, baby sharks, horseshoe crabs, tuna, huge tiger clams, but we drew the line at feeding the tank of stingrays! We returned to Pantai Cenang, having filled the car (half a Tank) for the princely sum of 15 MYR (£2.50). Lunch was in a beach side bistro accompanied by very Caribbean/Reggae style music. The beach here really is good the sand very white and fine, although Leo thought too many water sport vendors and not enough deckchairs. The only drawback, it appears, is that these
shores (Penang included) are plagued by jellyfish. We noted lots of warning signs about stings. We wimped out of swimming and gamely paddled along the shoreline. Feeling very chilled out we returned to our Motel to sit and watch the World go by. For our last evening in Langkawi we wanted to watch the Sun set on the Beach before heading for dinner. There was some cloud so the spectical wasn't great but the beach scene itself was really surreal, the majority of Visitors and possibly locals were on the beach, some BBQing others bringing alcohol (very bad) and many many swimming in the cooler less humid temperatures. We enjoyed a stroll the full length of the beach before having a Western style dinner accompanied by a Guitarist/Singer in the Red Tomato Restaurant. Excellent value for money and very enjoyable. Strolled back for Bed and an early trip in the Morning to Thailand via Kuala Lumpur. Sadly, we could easily have spent more time here, but we agreed that we made the most of our enforced shortened stay, and will leave with very fond memories of beautiful, tranquil Langkawi.
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