Langkawi - Oriental Village

We went to Oriental Village since it was the base location for the Langkawi's Cable car located on Gunung Mat Cincang. To go there you must pass the Petronas Quay, heading to Langkawi's Geopark and straight up to Gunung Mat Cincang. It was a long journey at first for us from Pantai Chenang as we mistakenly took a wrong direction. More info on Langkawi Cable car ride can be found here.


Once reached, you can see a hanging bridge at the front signboard of the Oriental Village. It is adviseable to go in the early morning before the noon so that visitor can see a nice view with all the cloud lining on the uphill of Mat Cincang mountain. Moreover there might be less people and the crowd will not be that much since from our past experience there are lots of tourist who are visiting this area.


Once reach there is a large signboard of all the places that you can visit at the Langkawi's Geopark. You can either opt for direct to the Cable Car ride, visit the animal farm or take a break at the food court which available located at the areas. Don't worry with the large signboard, you won't get lost around this areas.



There are 2 animal farm which you can visit here. The first one is the rabbit farm and the other one is the deer farm. The entrance for rabbit farm is free but visitor are advised to buy a packet of rabbit food which consist of carrot for a packet at RM2. We felt so sad to see that those rabbit are kinda tend to be left hungry just for the sake to attract the visitor, so that when visitor brought a packet of food those rabbit will rushed up them. Poor rabbit-rabbit..


After the rabbit farm, we headed to Craft Cultural Village which is just located in front of the Cable Car ticket entrance. In here you can get as many Langkawi's souvenir. We can say that most of the souvenir a bit of pricey knowing that more and more tourist are visiting these cable car areas.




Besides the Cultural Craft Village is the Langkawi's Geopark Hotel. This hotel can be consider a nice budget situated exactly near the cable car. It is well decorated in yellow and orange, of a brick color. Looking from the outside, it was really a nice hotel but in our opinion it is a bit faraway from all the action in Chenang beach. More info on the Geopark Hotel can be found here.


The cable car ride was really nice, once on top of the hill you can even saw Thailand faraway in a distance. There is 2 station for during the cable car ride. The first one is at 700 above the sea level and another one is at 750 above the sea level. The view on both scenery is truly a breathtaking. With the cool air, nice scenery what else can you asked for?



When you reach the last station, there is actually a hike up trail whereby you can go down to the hills not faraway where there is a hanging bridge. Amazingly it was being told that the hanging bridge was build without a single nail. Do same up some stamina as the walking distance between up hill and downhill do gonna make you a lil' tired if not exhausted.


Visiting hanging bridge of the Mat Cincang mountain is definitely is a must activity if you are visiting Langkawi island. It was truly a breathtaking panorama. However there a few precaution that visitor must remember. First is never visit or take ride if it is raining and secondly if the wind blew is terrible on that day. Most probably you can visit the whole area of Oriental Village but we don't guarantee that you gonna get a chance to ride
on the cable car.

Once we come down from the cable car ride, we visited the deer farm. Actually there is a few other name which I've forgot to mention nearby but since we are too hungry and want to go back to our chalet, we decided to just skip to the other tours as in KL we can also visit the National Zoo. The entrance for the deer farm is definately a free entrance but visitor are advised to buy a packet of food for the deer which cost RM2 also same as the rabbit farm. The deer is friendly and tame, must be due to the cold nature and the way they preserved the sanctuary.

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