Blogs from Pulau Pangkor, Perak, Malaysia, Asia

Im Reiseführer Lonely Planet steht das Pulau Pangkor nicht gerade das Supermodel ist, sondern eher die hübsche Nachbarin von nebenan. Das ist ziemlich zutreffend. Das reizvolle an dieser Nachbarin ist, dass man sie unter der Woche fast für sich alleine hat. Die Strände haben wir mit höchstens 5 anderen Leuten geteilt und das Hotel mit genau einem anderen Gast. Die Nachbarin ist vorallem bei Wochenendurlaubern beliebt und so kann man während der Woche von sehr grossen Rabatten profitieren (wir haben zb. das Zimmer für ca.15Fr statt 40Fr erhalten). Zu sehen gibt's nicht viel und so haben wir die Zeit verbracht, indem wir die Verschlungenen Pfade entlang der Küste abgelaufen sind (reizvoll), geschnorchelt haben (lohnt sich nicht) oder einfach am Strand gelegen sind. Am Abend haben wir dann jeweils ein persönliches BBQ gemacht. Auf dem Markt haben ... read more

Just a short visit to Pulau Pangkor. Nothing much to see, only different sunrise at different place.... read more

Well once again we got lucky. We had a great bus from Penang to Lamut but the driver failed on his mission to top us as we did arrive safely! Sometimes you get a wild one or sometimes they are tame but do try to drive the bus while texting their girlfriends or lighting a cigarette with both hands off the wheel steering by their elbows! Thats Asia and I suppose nothing too different from Africa either? It was a short half hour ferry hop to the Island and then a quick minibus taxi - only 12 ringets and no one tried to scam us - to our hotel. We had booked the Hornbill right on the beach even though the Lonely Planet said it was noisy. No matter as Tel Boy wears earplugs and I ... read more

From the Cameron Highlands we got back to our original route to Pulau Pangkor, an island just off the west coast town of Lumut. After a bus-bus-ferry-taxi ride taking nearly the whole day we pulled up in Pangkor along with a million other Malay & Chinese holidaymakers and were surprised to see a million also leaving the island presumably after just coming for a day trip. We'd planned this part of our trip quite badly in our eagerness to come here and had arrived on Chinese New Year Day, not a good time to go anywhere it seems. As soon as we'd got dumped by one of the cool pink minibuses in Teluk Nipan, the main town on the island, our first attempts at finding a room where in vain. Everywhere seemed either full or those ... read more

18 to 19 November We had a lot of time left and not much more of Malaysia to see before we could enter Thailand (stupid visa rules). We never planned to go to Pangkor, but after reading in the Lonely Planet that the government was promoting it as one of the country's top destinations, we thought a few days on a beach wasn't a bad idea indeed. To get there we had to take two buses and then a ferry (not a problem after the trip to the Cameron Highlands!). Once again we had not booked anywhere to stay. The taxi dropped us on the 'budget' beach and off we set walking up and down looking for a place to stay. We were not blessed with the knowledge that it was the equivalent of our schools' ... read more