Why i Love Langkawi - by Angelo

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Nice comment in Langkawi-updates Facebook :)


Thanks bro for being supportive.. Your comment are some of the reason why a lot of expratriate choose to settle down in Langkawi.. :) Hope you'll find your innerself & true meaning of life..

Nice to see this title for the site: Mystic… . The obvious reason for me liking Langkawi so much is that the people are the nicest people I have ever encountered in all my world travels including Thailand, India, USA, Canada, Eastern Europe and several south Pacific Islands i.e. Maui, Bora Bora and Tahiti. Not that there aren’t nice people there, as well, in those regions but here almost 99% of all the people in Langkawi are very nice. The warm hearted smiles exchanged simply from one human being to another crossing all boundaries of creed, race and skin color are really shocking. Most other areas of the world people are even afraid to make eye contact. What to speak of a beaming, smiling mouth and glittering eyes hellos from almost everyone I meet. Wow now that is really rare, believe me. I am thankful for having Langkawi finally revealed to me. Of course now, after my travels, I can compare and truly appreciate this wonder of Earth. 

For me this has been the magic in the mystical attraction of this location on Earth; the people. Then of course the location on the Earth planet situates us surrounded by almost unlimited opportunities for lying on a new white sand beach virtually every day. Tired of this white sand beach, then try that one, lol. There is enough adventure here for several lifetimes of exploration; even on this one island Langkawi. Never a dull moment indeed. So yes, what is this mystical magnetic island all about? Why do I want to live here the rest of my life? Why am I so peaceful here and happy to meet so many friendly local people. It’s not the fact that it is a “duty-free” island because I don’t drink or smoke and never shop. How can I be enjoying myself staying in a dormitory room? 

What about all that heat and hot weather doesn’t that get to me w/out ac? There has got to be something going on here that allows me to be content and not care about going anywhere else anymore. Maybe there is something here not seen that I am connecting with that fulfills my needs for pleasure? Could it be all the coconut trees, or all the wild jungles, or being surrounded by the Andaman Sea and a part of the archipelago of a hundred islands? Those things I can see but like I say could it be an unseen energy? I would like to know all the mystical things that happened here to try to uncover the “tractor-beam” of magnetic energy that holds me here like a bee stuck in honey.
 

Right now the strong all day breeze coming off the Cenang Beach is just like nectar to my lungs and skin. Warm enough to allow me to be in shorts yet cool enough to stave off any perspiration. These sea breezes are like eating a meal. And now the gentle sound of the call to prayer echoes up at the local mosque near the main street. And the cows bellow calling to each other in the distance as the coconut palms announce generous winds. These sounds of a natural world are certainly part of that unseen force that holds me on the island. 

But are there other unseen living beings here comforting my heart? 

 His comment here..

Flat out in Langkawi

Liz Porter chooses the Malaysian island for a swim-spa-slumber holiday.
My teenage daughter and I were desperate for an exotic break. We weren't looking for an "eat, pray, love" quest to Bali. Or a place with bars so hip you might be in some barely-on-the-map Melbourne laneway. Part of the charm of being somewhere foreign is that they do things differently. We just wanted somewhere reliably hot and sunny for a spa, swim, room service, book-reading kind of holiday.
I remembered Langkawi from a visit to its main island of Pulau Langkawi in 1976, when there was no tourist development on this archipelago of 99 islands off the west coast of Malaysia and the only access was a 30-kilometre ferry trip from the little port town of Kuala Perlis.

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I could recall only the stock tropical-paradise images: palm trees lining long, sandy beaches; jungle; a scenic hilly interior. I remember wading in clear warm water - and someone suggesting that at certain low tides, one could walk to the next island.
Thirty-five years later, I had difficulty finding new and reliable information. The Lonely Planet guide to Malaysia devotes only three pages to Langkawi. But some recent visitors there had described it as "like Bali 30 years ago". As someone lucky enough to first visit Bali when Sanur's Bali Hyatt was the only major resort and Legian had no electricity, I liked that idea.

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A/L :-

Honest & great feedback about their langkawi trip..

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Why I Don’t Love Langkawi by Contemporaray Nomad

For 98% of humanity, Langkawi would represent paradise on earth. What’s not to love: tropical beaches, soaring karst mountains, emerald waters? What’s the problem?

Langkawi is beautiful, there’s no doubt about it. I can enjoy a nice drink in a relaxed beach-side bar as much as anyone. But when beaches are backed with nothing BUT bars and resorts and duty-free shopping centers and aquariums and over-priced restaurants and tacky souvenir stalls – I think you get the picture – my vision of paradise starts to fade.

The problem is that I belong to that other 2% of humanity who likes his nature – well – natural. I like emerald waters minus the banana boats full of screaming teeny-boppers. Yes, I know, I’m a dinosaur.
It’s the same old story, the world’s perfect places are too beautiful for their own damn good. Humanity is loving its nature to death. Blah, blah, blah.

More here.

AL :-

Honest opinion of a traveller to Langkawi. However, i think if he ventures into areas such a Datai Areas & North side of the Island he will be surprise.  

Pantai Chenang Beach

Chenang Beach by Mario Gala

Picture of the day. If anyone wonder how Chenang Beach look like please to this picture. This is the most famous place for beach activity as well as relaxing place at night. The calmness might varies dependent on the
season. For fellow tourist need to plan ahead so that you trip might be enjoyable. Please check here for weather forecast. 
 
Anyway, i've ask Mario to comment about his trip to Langkawi. So here goes.

Comment from Mario (more great picture from Mario here) :-
One bad thing that I found was the lack of public transportation, no public bus to go anywhere... Since there are public buses everywhere else in rural towns in Malaysia, you would expect Langkawi to have some too, at least for the main routes, and not just expensive taxis. Also, just having one or two ferries a day (from Penang) sounds a bit too little.

About taxis, at least something could be done to make it easier to find taxis to share (e.g. some specific taxi stand for a few common destinations), rather than just having taxis for individual hire. I had to walk around the Kuah Jetty for quite a while looking for tourists with large backpacks before I was able to find someone to share a taxi with...

Apart from that, I visited the beaches of Pantai Cenang and Pantai Tengah, and I found them very nice, and they were extremely quiet and uncrowded compared to what I was expecting. There were only a few people here and there, not a mass tourist destination as you might expect from its popularity.

Timbermad :-

I totally agree with Mario. Normally we travel by car in Langkawi. But that does not mean that public transportation like bus cannot be introduce in Langkawi. Not all tourist have huge budget to travel. Sometime its more exciting to travel by bus around Langkawi. Perhaps this should be a new areas that LADA or Local authorities can improve.