Langkawi GeoPark
A nice place to spend half a day is the Langkawi GeoPark. Although pretty huge in size, this park can be broken up into three main sections:
The Oriental Village
The Cable Car Ride
and the Machincang Mountain Range
Located on the west of Langkawi Island and near Burau Bay, we arrived in the morning, and parked at the Oriental Village. Once we walked in, Ambrose wanted to take pictures with the 10kg python...
Ainsley, on the other hand, preferred the animal enclosure, where he could buy carrots to feed the rabbits.
There were deer there as well...
And this tamed eagle is a resident too...
However, the HIGH-light of the GeoPark is the cable car ride and a trip up Mt. Machincang.
That's the "bridge walk" at the peak...
The sign says 710m above sea level...
The view is quite nice, but there really isn't a lot else to do up at the peak.
There are some "jungle walks" around the peak, but it didn't look like they were headed anywhere interesting (i.e. we didn't know how far these walks were, and what we would reach to see...), so we decided to go back down.
And the one thing the boys enjoyed more than anything was Iced Milo. Especially from the foodcourt at the Oriental Village.
Just some notes about the GeoPark:
The queue for the cable car can sometimes be very long. On the Friday that we were there, we were informed that the queue was at least 2 hours (lucky for us, it eventually only took about an hour before we got onto the cable car).
If there are strong crosswinds, the cable car will not operate.
For those planning their own trip, the GeoPark can be done within 2-3 hours. That would leave you time to go to the fantastic Seven Wells Waterfall nearby.
The Oriental Village
The Cable Car Ride
and the Machincang Mountain Range
Located on the west of Langkawi Island and near Burau Bay, we arrived in the morning, and parked at the Oriental Village. Once we walked in, Ambrose wanted to take pictures with the 10kg python...
Ainsley, on the other hand, preferred the animal enclosure, where he could buy carrots to feed the rabbits.
There were deer there as well...
And this tamed eagle is a resident too...
However, the HIGH-light of the GeoPark is the cable car ride and a trip up Mt. Machincang.
That's the "bridge walk" at the peak...
The sign says 710m above sea level...
The view is quite nice, but there really isn't a lot else to do up at the peak.
There are some "jungle walks" around the peak, but it didn't look like they were headed anywhere interesting (i.e. we didn't know how far these walks were, and what we would reach to see...), so we decided to go back down.
And the one thing the boys enjoyed more than anything was Iced Milo. Especially from the foodcourt at the Oriental Village.
Just some notes about the GeoPark:
The queue for the cable car can sometimes be very long. On the Friday that we were there, we were informed that the queue was at least 2 hours (lucky for us, it eventually only took about an hour before we got onto the cable car).
If there are strong crosswinds, the cable car will not operate.
For those planning their own trip, the GeoPark can be done within 2-3 hours. That would leave you time to go to the fantastic Seven Wells Waterfall nearby.
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