The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island

The Fish Farm (N6 24.945 E99 51.821) is located at the same area of The Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant along the Kilim River of Langkawi Island. This activity was part of the Mangrove Tour.

The Fish Farm

The farm was not huge but it was enough for us to see all the big fishes around...
The young boy who speak fluent English had became our tour guide and started to showed us around the farm.
At first, he showed us the 'Shooting Fish' which was really interesting!

The Shooting Fish

There were many big fishes in the farm! Like this one below...

Then the boy brought us to the Stingray area, and all the rays seems like waiting at the site!

The big Black Ray!

Then the boy started to feed them with pieces of fish...

The black rays were Really Hungry!! :)

The rays overturned 

The boy continued to feed the hungry rays, and he overturn the body and showed us where is the mouth located...my daughter was excited watching the rays! :)
Then we moved to the Horse Shoe Crab...this was the first time I saw the horse shoe swim...that was new to me! Haha!

The boy explain about the Horse Shoe Crab

This was the way the horse shoe swim...

"There are many foreigners settle down here in Langkawi, some of them started the restaurant business or others and own a unique floating house at the Kilim River area..." said the Boatman. Below floating house is owned by a couple of Japanese.

Nice Floating House owned by Japanese couple.

It took about 30 minutes for us to tour around the fish farm, and we continue our journey to the Millions years Bat Cave! The cave is located nearby the Kilim Jetty....

We passed by the Kilim Jetty again...

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Underwater World of Langkawi Island
*  Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island 
*  The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island.
*  The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island. 
*  Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island
*  The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

The Location Map of the Fish Farm at Kilim River

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The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island

The Eagles Feeding area (N6 25.061 E99 52.345) is about 3.2km away from the Kilim River Jetty. The boatman was started to put some chicken intestine, meat and skins to the river from the back of the boat. I was thinking can the hungry eagles see this??

Chicken skins and others...

Well, I was wrong! 'The Eagles can be able to focus object from 2-3km away!' The boatman explained, Impressed!
During that time, all the wild eagles were waiting surround us...

There were not few of them, but almost 50-60 eagles...and it was getting more and more!!
Once the boatman finish putting the chicken skins, he turned the boat and let us see the spot just in front of us. We were definitely Surprised! There were many eagles circles on top of us and flew down to the surface One-By-One to hunt for their foods!
WOW! That scene was really amazed us!

The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island

The Eagles were TOO fast and I'm TOO slow! I admit I cannot capture A nice photos of them! The photos above are a few from my 220 shots of the eagles...
We really enjoy the session and it was A First Experience in our life! It was Awesome!

When everyone were concentrated on the water surface, I suddenly look up the sky and I was Shock! The sky was Full of Eagles circling and waiting for their turns....
(Again, I apologies I can't snap A good photos of them...)

The Eagles on top of us!

This was the First time we were SO close to the eagles! It was about less than 10 meters! During the session, my wife and my daughter was stretching their eyes and enjoy the moment quietly, you can hear the water sound where the eagle's claws touching the water! But I had to view that moment from my lens...:(
The boatman told us that these were the smaller eagle available in Langkawi Island, it's named - Brahminy Kite.

After about 30 minutes watching the eagles, the boatman brought us to one of the spot nearby...then pointing Very far in the jungle and said : "Look, that is the White Bellied Sea Eagle!" This bird is 2 times Bigger than the Brahminy Kite!

White Bellied Sea Eagle at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island

We loved this Tour VERY MUCH!
Beside the Fabulous Scenery of Kilim Geoforest Park, we still be able to experience the Eagles Surrounding us. Great!
This was the my main purpose to visit Langkawi Island. :)

I advise to take the Mangrove Tour if you are first time visiting the Geopark, you won't regret it!

The Brahminy Kite Eagle

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Underwater World of Langkawi Island
*  Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island 
*  The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island.
*  The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island. 
*  Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island
*  The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island  
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island 
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

Location map of the Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park

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The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island

The Kilim Karst Geoforest Park is located at the East of Langkawi Island. The Mangrove Boat Tour can be access through the Kilim Jetty (N6 24.306 E99 51.505).

The Kilim Gepforest Park of Langkawi Island

"The Kilim Karst Geoforest Park in the eastern part of the main Langkawi Island features magnificently formed landscape of nearly vertical to subrounded limestone hills with pinnacles of various shapes and sizes, can be viewed on limestone Setul Formation.

The northeast region of Langkawi, encompassing the three river basins of Kilim, Air Hangat and Kisap and the neighbouring islands of Langgun and Tanjung Dendang are spectacular in its beauty with the geological and landscape resources, the seas, the mudflats, beaches, the wetland mangrove and the unique fauna and flora that have long coexisted in these ecosystems..." Source from Kilim Karst Geoforest Park.

We arrived at the Jetty around 4.30pm. It was the best timing to visit the area, because there will not have many tourists that time and our boat won't attack by those busy waves from other boats (advise from friend). We took the One 1 hour Mangrove Tour package which was included the Eagle feeding, Bat Cave and Fish Farm, cost MYR200.00 per trip.
(You can choose the Tour package from 1 hour to 4 hours)

One of the boat approaching the Jetty

It was simple and easy, once we bought our tickets and the boatman was ready at the Jetty. Life jackets will be provided to all passengers.

Once the boat speed up and away from the Jetty, the Breathtaking scenery was painted in front of us!! Oh! It was Beautiful!
The photos around the Kilim Geoforest Park...

The Limestone Hill

The well protected Mangrove area

The Mangrove and the Limestone Setul Formation

Series of the Limestone Hill...

I had feeling that I was at Guilin of China! Haha!

Beside the Limestone, the Mangrove forest was no the other side on the river...It was Green! I like it very much!

The Mangrove Trees

Seems like the mangrove trees are different from the mangrove at Pulau Kukup, Johor.

During the boat tour, we passed by the Fish Farm area. All this floating farms were powered by TNB! Not generators. Surprised!

And we noticed there were many yachts parking at the river, it's because of the low parking fees...

One of the exit to the open sea, can you see the Langgun Island at the background?

We were Really enjoy the scenery and the flesh air over here! Wow! How nice if we can station the boat at the river more than an hour? :)

Fisherman on the way back home...

I will blog about the Eagle Feeding, Fish Farm and Bat Cave in my next post...you can check out the activities location from the pictures below which I captured from Google Earth.

Activities area at the Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Underwater World of Langkawi Island
*  Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island 
*  The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island.
*  The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island. 
*  Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island
*  The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

Location map for the Kilim River Jetty, Langkawi Island.

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Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island

Restoran (Restaurant) Nasi Kandar Tomato (N6 17.435 E99 43.642) is located along the Pantai Beach road, opposite the Langkawi Boutique Hotel and basically it was a Mamak shop (selling Muslim foods) which is common at Johor Bahru area. The restaurant is receive many good review from the internet and TripAdvisor.com about the tomato rice. So we have to try it!

Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Pantai Cenang, Langkawi.

There were 2 dining area in the restaurant, an open air and air-conditional area. Due to the hot weather of the island, we hopped into the air-con area...

The foods are normal like mixed rice and roti canai. We just grabbed a plate of tomato rice and started to select the dishes...I had a mutton, chicken and vegetables and my wife had a fish, mutton, chicken and vegetables...

The foods were Delicious especially with the rice! We enjoyed our lunch very much in the restaurant! I like the braised mutton very much! :)

Mixed rice at Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato, Langkawi Island

But I was a bit surprised when I paid the bill! The damage was MYR23.50 included 2 teh tarik for 2 persons. It was Not Cheap! Well, it's because of the Tourist Hotspot - Cenang Beach.

Rated : 3.5/5

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Underwater World of Langkawi Island
*  Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island 
*  The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island.
*  The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island. 
*  The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island  
*  The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island 
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

Location Map of Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi

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The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island.

The Sky-Bridge (a.k.a Hanging Bridge) (N6 23.164 E99 39.736) of Langkawi Island is 'hanged' on Mount Machinchang and it's about 700 meters above sea level.

"Langkawi sky-bridge is suspended at 700 metres above sea level. This unique curved pedestrian bridge spans 125 metres across a spectacular chasm. The view from the bridge is simply breathtaking. You'd be able to view the Andaman Sea and Thailand’s Tarutao Island as well. 

The 1.8m-wide bridge had two 3.6m-wide triangular platforms that provided a spectacular viewing-cum-resting area for visitors.

Unlike straight bridges where you can see from the starting point, the bridge has been curved to provide different perspectives over the land and sea. Convenient triangular platforms located along the curved bridge provide rest areas so you can sit and appreciate both the beauty of nature and an incredible feat of engineering. Langkawi sky-bridge is safe." Source from Langkawi Sky-Bridge.

This photo took from the Langkawi Cable Car Middle Station, background is the Thailand Tarutao Island.

There's a trail at the left of the Langkawi Cable Car (once you get out from the gondola). It was about 50 meters descending from the Cable Car Station with proper stairs where anyone can be access to the Bridge easily.

The trail to the Sky-Bridge

Once we reached the bridge, I quickly took this photo (below) before step on the staircase...

The structure below the Sky-Bridge of Langkawi Island

You will be step on start point of the Bridge which was a 3.6 meters wide triangular platform. The view was Nice!

The Sky-Bridge

Then we crossed the bridge...

The Double Railings design for Safety purpose, 

and the Single Support at the right of the pedestrian.

The bridge is Safe but we felt the little shaking on it, so I did my 'Twist' on it and stop until someone 'Scream'! Haha!

The Hanging Bridge is just single support from the Middle and hang by these steel bar...

The Hanging part of the Sky-Bridge

I was Totally attracted by the Magnificent view at the other end of the Bridge! Wow! It was Fantastic! The Thailand Tarutao Island was clearly appear in front of us! The distance is merely about 13km from the point we stand to the island. The photos below are the Beautiful Scenery from the Bridge.

Tarutao Island (Thailand) across the sea

The Andaman Sea

Another view of the Mount Machinchang of Langkawi Island

The Langkawi Sky-Bridge also won the 'Top 5 World's Scariest Bridges' from TripAdvisor.

Crazy Curves: Langkawi Sky Bridge, Kedah, Malaysia
"This incredibly unique curved pedestrian cable bridge off of Pulau Langkawi island's Gunung Mat Chinchang peak stretches about 400 feet and stunningly sits more than 2,200 feet above sea level. With breathtaking views of the Andaman Sea and nearby islands, this engineering marvel is an acrophobe's nightmare." Read more.

The Langkawi Cable Car view from the Sky-Bridge

We were hanging around the bridge from about an hour until we realized that we haven't take our lunch! That time was about 3pm...So due to filling stomach time, we had to say Bye-bye to the Bridge and the Mountains...

The trail back to the cable car station was steep...or maybe we were hungry?! :)

Bye! Sky-Bridge of Langkawi

After came out from the cable car station, we thought we can find some foods around the Oriental Village, but after walking around...we decided to drive to Cenang Beach for our lunch!

Some shots about the Oriental Village of Langkawi Island.

Oriental Village

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Underwater World of Langkawi Island
*  Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island 
*  The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island.
*  Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island
*  The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island  
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

The Location map of The Sky-Bridge of Langkawi Island

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