Showing posts with label dayang bunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dayang bunting. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Facts about Pulau Dayang Bunting,Langkawi

Above about Pulau Dayang Bunting in Langkawi.

 

Pulau Dayang Bunting is another beautiful Langkawi islands. This island is located about 17.6km from Kuah. It's the second largest island within the archipelago. Pulau Dayang Bunting was named "The Island of the Pregnant Maiden" as inspired by the legends which surround the lake or by the physical appearance of the island itself which resembles the belly of a pregnant woman. The legend is that the lake bestows fertility, although not scientifically proven, only enhances the mystery that surrounds the island.

Pulau Dayang Bunting is also famous for it's mangrove swamps, lush rainforests and wildlifes. You can find over 90 species of birds including the hornbill, kingfisher, drongo, woodpecker and kite.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Excellent places at Langkawi Island

Above about places at Langkawi Island, Malaysia.

A good way to see many places of Pulau Langkawi is to rent a car and drive from one place to another on their own free time. Car rental at reasonable prices and east of the island is by a network of roads with a pleasantly large signage.

An excellent place for your visit is to Kuah town itself, where the tourist information center is based (beside the mosque of the city). All brochures and maps you need, in May and you’re ready to go.

Near the pier and the tourist information center is the park port, where the Dataran Lang and Lagenda Park - a scenic place of the former with a statue made of concrete of Langkawi Eagle and the second 20 hectares memorial ceremony on the island of legends sculptural form.

Designation of the line west of the town of Kuah on the country, surrounded by rice fields. Let the signs lead you Makam Mahsuri’s grave of the legendary island of heroin. Be the most popular island in the Sage grave / shrine is in Langkawi, that the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

To return to the main road leads you Pantai Cenang, the island’s longest beach of the band, with more going on here the night life. This area is the highest concentration of the hosting providers, from budget chalets to five stars and is thus busy.

Laman Padi, a “Museum of rice is also in Pantai Cenang for those who deal with all aspects of cultivation of rice. The Underwater World, a huge aquarium with a fascinating collection of water and marine life will continue on the same street .

Pantai Cenang ride to the airport. A Go-Kart Racing Center located on the street, for those who are from Thursday to participate. The airport is the small town of Padang Matsirat where very disappointing beras Terbakar or “Burnt Rice Field is located. The legend says, rice is always burnt, the remains of a culture of the 18th century, was the torch of the villagers to prevent the invasion the Siamese troops take. If anything, you see a poor rice bowl burned in a housing made of plastic surrounded by a marking.

The connection Matsirat Padang, follow the signs in Pantai Kok, a section of the picturesque beach of which some say the most beautiful of Langkawi. You go to a red Thai structure along the road, was a proposal from Hollywood for the film Anna and the King as a star Jodie Foster and Chow Yuen fatt. Built as a summer palace for the Siamese monarch in history, the structure was “recycling” as a tourist attraction. The entry is a bit steep, but the place itself is very well maintained and well worth a visit. The cultural events will also be here at regular intervals.

Beyond Pantai Kok is Burau Bay, the other competitors, the clamp on the island’s most beautiful beach. Burau Bay is a beautiful bay, surrounded by peaks of the mystical Gunung Mat Cincang. Two, at both ends of the bay of Burau Bay Resort and Berjaya Langkawi Beach Resort, both built to deal with the environment.

Burau Bay is the highest waterfalls of Telaga tujuh (Seven Wells), a playground for fairies under folklore. Only the lovers of outdoor-in and should try the kind of thirty-minute walk to the grave. Back in the track and apply Telaga tujuh Datai Bay, where the “250 million years, the rainforest and the sea”, or if the brochure claims.

Two of the islands most luxurious resort, The Datai and The Andaman nestled among the trees in the solitude here. A beautiful golf course and a spectacular waterfall in the vicinity. The coastal road along Datai It is also the past Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Culture Foundation, a showcase of Malaysia’s most famous artist and a Crocodile Farm, where the main attraction is a distortion Croc.

Progress on the north coast you will find Pasir Hitam (The beach with black sand), where the sand is black and striped Kompleks Budaya Kraf, craft complex products of traditional crafts such as batik, silver and pottery.

In Padang Lalaing, turn right at Tanjung Rhu (Rhu Cape), a beautiful little beach with large lagoons and sand flats at low tide. Visitors can also rent a boat here for the mangrove forests and the legendary cave nearby.

Head of the West on the main road in Kuah and past Hangat Air Village, a cultural center is a natural hot water and the Galeria Perdana, a museum, which the Prime Minister Dato ‘Seri Dr. Mahatir of the collection of gifts.

In addition to the attractions on Pulau Langkawi, an island to the other can be applied to the neighboring islands, each with its own bay with crystal clear water, spots for snorkeling, caves, strange and fascinating folklore.

Following up on the list of commitment to see the island of Pulau Dayang Bunting, the island group, the second largest island with a freshwater lake in the center, Pulau Singa Besar, where a sanctuary of wildlife and the beautiful Pulau Payar designated a water park full of coral , fish and baby sharks.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Dayang Bunting Island, Langkawi

These are about Pulau Dayang Bunting in Langkawi.

Pulau Dayang Bunting (Island Of The Pregnant Mermaid) is the second largest island of the Langkawi archipelago, second only to Pulau Langkawi itself. Located at a distance of about 17.6 km from Kuah Town, Pulau Dayang Bunting is accessible from Kuah Jetty or Pantai Cenang through a 15 minute boat ride.

The island derives its name from Tasik Dayang Bunting (Lake of the Pregnant Maiden), the largest lake on Langkawi. The lake and the island are shrouded in legend. Tales of Mambang Sari and Mat Teja's ill-fated love story loom over one's mind as one cools off in the scintillating waters of the lake. The story of Mat Teja's courtship of his beloved and their sweet romantic endeavors take the tourists back into the world of nymphs and genies. Their love child did not survive long and the anguished mother bid her son farewell. The child is believed to have assumed the form of a white crocodile as she placed him in his watery grave. This crocodile guards the lake till date, natives hold, and is said to appear only to the pure at heart. Mambang Sari, overflowing with maternal affection and distraught at such a fortuity, blessed the waters that took her son into their fold with magical qualities. Since then, the natives believe that a sip of the waters of Tasik Dayang Bunting endows fertility to any childless woman.

Gua Langsir (Cave of the Banshee), located on the western shore of the island, is another major attraction of the island. The natives superstitiously believe the existence of a banshee haunting the interiors of this dark cave. However the name may also be associated with the banshee like wail created by the howling of the wind. Many attribute this wail purely to the acoustics of the cave. Thousands of bats are known to inhabit this cave. The Gua Langsir is located stop a 91 m limestone hillock, about 8 km north of the only jetty. This jetty has been fashioned in a small cove to aid tourists alight their boats before proceeding to explore the Pulau Dayang Bunting.

Pulau Dayang Bunting is famed for the mangrove swamplands and the dense tropical rainforests it encompasses. A vast variety of birds such as the kite, woodpecker, hornbill, drongo and kingfisher nest here and Pulau Dayang Bunting the ornithologist's Eden.

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