Pangkor Island

Let's go Pangkor! Okay, sure, when? That's how we ended up having this trip.

Together with three other church youths, we departed our hostel and went for breakfast at 8.30am and bought some stuff before the journey starts. It is around 10am when we leave Kampar to Lumut. We stopped by Tesco at Sri Iskandar(somewhere near Lumut) to buy some snacks for this 2days 1night.

 

Welcome to Jeti Lumut ! 

We parked our car(RM0.60/per hour) and had a 3mins walk to the ticket counter and saw a ferry just leave from the parking building when we arrive. Immediately we buy the ferry ticket(RM10/round trip), waited for 30mins, walk and visit shops in Lumut and bought our lunch to eat at Pangkor island. a few tables set infront of the ticket counter. They're people from snorkeling companies. We had our deal with Horizon, RM100 for 4pax.

 

HERE WE COME PULAU PANGKOR!

Departed at 12.45pm and

 Arrived Jeti Pangkor at 1.18pm.
This is what you'll see when you walk out of the jeti. PINK colour taxi! It took us around 20mins to reach Pangkor Bay View Resort(RM160/per night) at Teluk Nipah which costs RM15 per trip.
Check-in, put our stuff down, get change and ciao to snorkeling.

Boat trip to Pulau Mentagor, Pulau Giam, Coral beach, Man bay and a few more.

Out to the sea! after visiting a few places, we had snorkeling at Pulau Giam for 2.5hours. It was my first time snorkeling and it was not bad. We had some bread for the fishes from Horizon. It was really nice feeding them and we also went to the furthest we can to enjoy and to see fishes. Some friends were expecting to see corals and more fishes with clearer water. A little disappointment. And the rocks are way too slippery. so, say hi to wounds. Pulau Giam is not too dirty. Yes, there are still some rubbish. So, it will be much better if all tourist were to take care of our mother nature.  

That ends our day with Horizon at 5.30pm. We then went back to our resort to clean ourselves and have mask after going under the sun for such long hours. 

 Dont know what to eat. walk and walk and walk. ended up in this shop at 7.30pm for dinner. we decided to eat and little here and there. So, we ordered 2 bowls of grilled cockles - kerang bakar(RM10), 2 plates of fried rice - nasi goreng kampung(RM10) and 4 glasses of drinks(RM6). The kerang bakar is really nice and we found out that other shops sell at the same price but with a smaller bowl. The sauce, the sauce is really really really delicious. It is for kerang but you can also serve it with fried rice. It tastes really nice if like spicy food. if you're facing the sea, this shop is the first shop from the left.

 Nice stop at jagung bakar, RM2.50 each. Smells good, taste good! (y)

Hungry? still want to eat? 

While walking down the street, we saw a number of shop selling sting ray, squid, different type of fishes, kerang and more. After asking(survey), this shop sells fresher and cheaper seafood. We ordered one sting ray(RM18) and a plate of squid(RM20). Macam mana masak? rebus bakar dengan byk sambal. We had out seats at the back facing the sea with a nice view, sound of wave and wind. This shop is on my right from my resort.

We went straight to the sea side to look for 蓝眼泪  as planned. But we got pretty upset when we dont see any. So discourage to continue looking for it. And one of my friend then took something from the sand when we were talking about the foreign tourists that are swimming in the sea, as we feel that it is dangerous. Anyway, we thought she was lying, but, Yes, it is what we are looking for! We were so happy and started looking for more. we also make friend with those foreigners as they came to see what is going on. Had a nice chat and yamcha with them before heading back to hostel. 

This is how we ended out first day in pangkor around 2am.

GoodNight! 

> DAY TWO

We woke up quite early but just lying in the bed because we all were kinda lazy to brush up and get prepare for the day. We only had our breakfast at 11.30am by the sea side.

4 crabs for RM20, 14 goreng pisang for RM6 and keropok lekor for RM4.

They did not really clean the crabs. It is kinda dirty actually. But still we ate like nobody's business. haha. Breakfast was satisfactory, kinda good. We dont have any plan after that and we dont know what to do either. Nothing much in Teluk Nipah and we need to call a taxi to go other places if we want to. No direction. So we just went took pictures at the sea side and playing with the water. We got bored and head back to resort. We stayed there for a while and we know we cant waste our time like that. Out again for kelapa muda but it was too expensive and we met those france friends coincidentally.

 Spent the whole morning till 2pm here. Played uno and went do to the sea to swim and play. It was really fun and nice swimming in the sea. I really miss the morning. Swimming in the sea was really fun! Really really fun! if you think i sounded like i'm a good swimmer, opps, sorry, i only know frog style. haha. Anyhow, at least i know how to swim and with the guidance of friends i try to swim further and further. Be extra careful when swimming in the sea too, we need to know our limit to avoid any thing to happen yeah. One and only thing that i really dislike is the taste of the sea. It is way too salty. The fact is that all sea are salty. so i cant complain much. if not i'll sound like a stupid isnt it. After using up our energy swimming, everyone is hungry. Hello lunch. the last thing we did before we leave. We called taxi back at our resort at 4.30pm. 

Is time to say goodbye. Sat on the ferry and reached Jeti Lumut at 5.30pm. Get on the car to Sri Iskandar for dinner at a malay restaurant. Reached our hostel around 9pm on Sunday. That's how we spent our lovely weekends.

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