Before we left the pink taxi at Pangkor Jetty, we asked for directions to Lumut’s Famous Seafood village. We kept looking for Kampung Koh the night before but in actual fact, it’s situated at Kampung Cina! doh!.. I need to admit that I’ve been to this place many times since young [I'm a Perak girl mar] but dad was the one driving and I’ll be sleeping in the car until I reached my destination all the time..hehe
Now that I need to bring X-T here, I was kinda LOST! [hide face]
There are a couple of restaurants there but this time, I suggest X-T to try one I’ve never been before.
One must never miss ordering these refreshing coconut juice
Clockwise from left: Kum Heong Crabs, fried oysters and stir fried yau mak. Everything at MYR38! How’s the taste? One word…”Wonderful”!
Do you know that we actually spend less than RM70 for all our meals during our two days stay in Lumut and Pulau Pangkor? *smiles with satisfaction*
A last look at the beach before we return to the city.
I was tagged by Sweetpea on the day I return from my vacation. I bathed, I relaxed in front of my computer and the minute I read the tag she passed on to me, I became even more tired… haha because this is a dua-dalam-satu (2 in 1) tag…*faint*
Anyway, Sweetpea darling…I’ve completed my task today
Where is your cell phone? Table Relationship? Yes Your hair? Brown Work? Boring Your sister? One Your favorite thing? Computer Your dream last night? Romantic Your favorite drink? Coffee Your dream car? None The room you’re in? Bedroom Your shoes? Downstairs Your fears? Betrayal What do you want to be in 10 years? Younger Who did you hang out with this weekend? X-T What are you not good at? Electronics Muffin? Strawberry One of your wish list items? Nothing Where you grew up? Ipoh Last thing you did? Breakfast What are you wearing? Nothing What aren’t you wearing? Everything Your pet? Bitch Your computer? Slow Your life? Fantastic Your mood? Happy Missing? Parents What are you thinking about right now? Ice-cream Your car? Chevrolet Your kitchen? Activity-less Your summer? Hot Your favorite color? Black Last time you laughed? Yesterday Last time you cried? Sunday School? Fun Love? Hurts
As I’ve mentioned earlier, we checked out from the hotel as soon as the rain stops after breakfast. Orient Star Resort is only 2 minutes walk away from the jetty to the island. The weather was perfectly fine that day.
The Jetty @ Lumut
We used to take a ride on wooden ferries to the Island 10 years ago. Now, wooden ferries were replaced with air conditioned ones, equipped with a 32 inch tv!
Life jackets all neatly arranged on top of each passenger seat.
Pangkor Island is a small island on the North West coast of Malaysia in the Straits of Malacca. According to the villagers, the population in Pangkor island was estimated at 20,000. Quite crowded for a small island huh?
You’ll know that you’re about to reach Pangkor Island when you see the fishing villager’s little huts.
A bumpy and narrow ride around the island with Uncle Chan
As you arrived at the Island, you’ll have a choice to rent a taxi [which is actually a pink van] to tour around the Island. You might consider renting a car, a motorbike or even a bicycle to explore the island. Since we’re only there for a few hours day tour, we hire the pink taxi. Mr Chan [our chauffeur for the day] was really informative and helpful.
First Destination: The Dutch Fort
The Dutch Fort was built in 1670. It was one of the Dutch strongholds against pirates and local Malays. During the Dutch occupation in the 17th century, tin supplies from Pangkor and the mainland were stored for protection in this fort. As time goes by, the locals were unhappy with the treatment of the Dutch. So, they managed to destroy the fort in 1690. The Dutch then returned in full force to rebuild the fort. 60 soldiers were commissioned to protect the fort until 1743, when it was finally abandoned after being attached by a local warrior, Panglima Kulub, and his followers.
Kota Belanda/Dutch Fort
Holes for fire cannons
The front view of the fort. Can you spot our pink taxi?
Next stop…
We went to Fu Lin Gong Temple. That’s where the miniature Great wall of China Pangkor situated.
Tortoise spotted outside the temple
A pond filled with Koi
Spotted a few sad looking monkeys in cages. These little friends are supposed to be roaming wild and free at the Monkey Island [which is situated at Pangkor]!
Next destination.. Mr Chan took us on a detour to the white sandy beach. The sand was fine and clean. There’s nobody there at the beach that afternoon. Gosh it’s like we own the entire beach on that day!
Our second last stop was the fishing village and the Satay and salted fish factory Factory’s warehouse
Fishing boat
A lady @ work
Ewww…flies! The stupid unlucky ones are trapped on fly papers.
Salted and satay fishes being dried under the sun.
Dried satay fish will be compressed using these dirty machines.
These are salted stingrays.
On our way back to the Pangkor jetty..
Mr Chan drove us to the ship yard and explore how boats are made. Interesting! A basic boat cost around MYR350,000 [without the engine]. If the engine and furnitures are added, the boat will cost a couple of millions…
Looking across the green sea lies a new island YTL bought recently. It’s under construction now and soon it will become a duty free retail zone for shoppers visiting the island….
It was a pleasant day at the island and throughout the entire trip, we kept mentioning about bringing our parents along on our next visit to the island. I believe it’s going to be a great trip for the entire family…..
There is a bus with 7 girls inside, Each girl has 7 bags, Inside each bag, there are 7 Big cats, Each Big cat has 7 small cats,All cats have 4 Legs each!
Question: How many Legs are there inside the bus?
X-T emailed this math question to me today and it took me a couple of minutes to figure out the answer..now…it’s your turn!
