Hi all! This is my first ever trip to go on an island around Peninsular Malaysia, hence I will start off with Pangkor, an island that was once a famous getaway for Singaporeans in the 1990s. However, my story will be based on chronological events, hence, please bear with me to uncover the secrets of Pangkor, which I discover in just a day!
Friday, 10 April 2015
Probably, there's nothing much to narrate for this day, just that I am going for an island trip to Pangkor, and I take a bus from Keypoint, Beach Road (Singapore) to Lumut, the closest jetty to Pangkor Island. So, here's the snippet of the bus, courtesy from Golden Coach!
Saturday, 11 April 2015
After enduring a long journey of almost nine hours (9h) from Singapore to Lumut for a price of S$38, finally I arrive here. Some pictures of Lumut and also the jetty are available here. Once arrive at Lumut, the place was so beautiful, there's a mosque, a temple and also a complete waterfront surrounded with gift shops and the most important part of the trip, none other else than the jetty itself, the common gateway to Pangkor Island.
Hopping on board to the ferry for a two-way ride, can easily costs RM10. The best part is, once you buy the ticket, the return day is from the same day of board or even a few days after that. Here's the internal part of the ferry and also the pictures taken from the ferry!
This is when my foot just steps in to Pangkor Island, and here's the picture from the jetty itself.
Once after clearing the jetty, I decided to tour around Pangkor Town, or in Malay, known as Pekan Pangkor. The fascinating point or part that I would like to bring up here is that, on the town itself, there's a tourist centre, fire brigade station, a Buddhist building, which eventually had its own classes like Mathematics for the locals, there's also a post office, and a library as well. But, life just goes on normally for the locals, whereby there's a market, vegetable and also a minimart concept!
The last picture is where I decided to go back to jetty, and here are the denominations of different fixed price to trips within Pangkor Island. What I can highlight here is that to tour around Pangkor Island, it only costs RM70! However, I would like to tell a short story of what really happens at Pangkor.
I was wandering around the taxi area at the jetty. I walked straight to the tourist centre, before a person by the name of Mr Albert, approached me. By the way, beside taxi, you can also hop on a rented motorcycle for those who want to enjoy something different, and you wanted to try on your own. Back to Mr Albert, initially I was reluctant, as I mention that I was from Singapore, and I did not have any motorcycle licence at all. Alas, he still wanted me to ride on the motor, as he know that I was alone. Hence, I start trying to ride on my own, but the adrenaline rush was just there, in another words, even how he teach me by using the correct technique plus the coordination, I could not execute it very well. I was asking him at first, how much for the ride until tomorrow morning, he mention at RM40. Initially, I wanted to give him RM50, so that there's change, however, since he mentioned that he doesn't have change at all, I have to give him RM37. At last, when he really realize that I cannot handle to use the motorcycle, he send me off to the beach resort.
The hotel that I stay is at Puteri Bayu Beach Resort. So, these are the pictures upon arrival at the hotel before eating at the coffee house for lunch and dinner.
In this hotel, you can check-in early/late, vice-versa also for the check-out. For my part, I check in at 1200h, before check out tomorrow morning by 0715h. Here's my lunch set for that day. After lunch, I decided to walk along the beach near Pasir Bogak area before returning back to hotel for some private time at the swimming pool.
So, I start my tour around Pangkor Island in the taxi by starting my first destination at the Dutch Fort.
Then, the driver bring me to the Pangkor Gallery, whereby at the end of the visit, lies ahead the fisherman village and also the vicinity of Sungei Pinang area.
Then, the driver brings me to a temple that has a replicate of mini 'Great Wall of China', and there's a lot of tortoise as well.
Along the way, the roads encountered on Pangkor Island, were like a tipsy-turfy road, as there were hills in the island, so sometimes need to swerve up and down the hill. There's also an airport runaway at the island, run by SAS Air!
The last stop that the driver took me is at Lin Je Kong temple near to the sea, the prominent feature about this temple is the Disney's characters replicate!
Then, it's time to go back to the hotel, I was lucky that there was a heavy downpour afterwards, but I manage to eat my dinner there.
Sunday, 12 April 2015
Sadly, I have to go back immediately. Hence, to sum it all up, here are my photos. The good thing about this hotel is that, they even pack for me breakfast (which was actually included), well, that was an initiative by them. So, till next month on another island, probably wait for it then!
Signing off!
