Langkawi - Island Hopping Trip

The next day we woke a bit early as we need to wait for the tour van to bring us to the another fisherman bay; since we have booked for the island hopping package. The package estimated cost us about RM45. Once we reach there, we are then being divided into a few small group of 6-8 people depending on the capacity of the boat. To tell you the truth it was not a big boat but it is more sorta like kinda fisherman boat which can only fit on 6-8 people on it. Don't worry as life jacket is provided as well. :)


During the ride, the boat driver aka the tourist guide will explained to us some of the location which we are currently visiting now, stopping near it and the story or legend behind of it. We had funs since during the ride we made a few new friends from other country which is from Iran, China and Italy.



The first stop is Island of Pregnant Maiden (Pulau Dayang Bunting). Legend says that whoever drink the water from the lake will get pregnant (lady for sure!). Another wonder of the lake is that the water from the lake itself is not salty knowing that the island is in the middle of the sea. From the distance you can see that the hill resemblance of a pregnant lady which is sleeping on her slumber. There is a head, breast, pregnant stomach and legs of her.


One thing one must remember when visiting the island is to avoid bringing any plastic with you. This is because the island is full of money inhabitance in it. And those monkey will try to grab anything which resemble plastic as tho' that they thought that those are the food. We did saw an incident where a tourist guide been chase out by the wild monkey because of her junk food. Poor her..


The first things activities that you can do once reach the island is to book some floating bicycle cycling. The floating bicycle cost you RM15. There are 2 types of floating bicycle. One is powered by solar and another one is the manual type. we opt for the manual one as we got it free including as well within our island hopping package. It was fun as you can cycle around the island and enjoyed the breeze with your loved one.


Next activity you can do is to try and get feet massage by those cat fish. I really don't know whether it is those typical cat fish which we normally see in market or eat but amazingly those fishes inside the pregnant maiden lake won't bite you! So just for the sake of thrill just soak your feet and let the fish do the massaging.



Estimated you will be left to enjoyed the scenery and do those activities for about 45 minutes in the island. Once you have do whatever you feel like to do in the island you need to hop on the tour boat again and followed by the next destination. Next destination is to visit the Eagle feeding sanctuary. Once your boat have reached the area, what the boatman basically will do is to throw some chicken's skins into the sea and within a minutes, a swarm of eagles will flew nearby and garb those skins. Nothing much to say about this activity except we never seen a sawrm group of eagle fly together before and it was kinda fun also for us.

Finally once completed with the eagle feeding activity, the boatman will bring us to and island which is called 'Wet Rice beach' (Pulau Beras Basah). In here you are allowed to spend relaxing either on the beach or get yourself wet inside the sea of the island. We decided to try snorkeling for some coral on this beach. However the sea is not that clear compared to 'Payar island' which is also protected as marine park we went yesterday. However it would be a losses if one go and visit the island without trying to get yourself wet in Wet Rice Beach.


The island is known as wet rice because most of the sand on the beach do resemble and its size is exactly look like a rice. Since it is near to the beach hence it get wet. So there is how they got the name for this island according to legend. At the end we can make conclusion that the island hopping trip is truly a worth once in a life time to do or visits. You will never know how interesting some legend are once you are visiting he places yourself.
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