Langkawi Geopark

Location: Langkawi

We went to the Geopark during our annual company retreat, which this year Langkawi was the chosen destination. The group decided to join the package tour to Langkawi Geopark since we has nothing to do during our 2nd day's morning.

Langkawi Geopark is a geographical park inscribed by UNESCO that covers the entire Langkawi archipelago. The geopark status was according by Unesco to Langkawi in 2007, making it the only geopark in Southeast Asia and the 52nd under the Unesco Global Geoparks Network. The Langkawi Geopark is said to have the best exposed and most complete Palaeozoic sedimentary sequence in Malaysia, formed during the Cambrian age 450-550 million years ago. LADA is tasked to take care for the development for it.

We entered through Kilim Karst Geoforest Park, and needed 3 boats altogether to ferry us.

The first pit-stop was a bat cave. We were there to watch the bat, which most of us has seen it before. We are not allowed to use the flash to take the photos, but some irresponsible tourists took the photo with the flash on. The tour guide told us it will make the bat blind for a while, as well as disturbing them.

I was more attracted to the mangroves area, It is well preserved. Along the way, the tour guide explained to us the rock formation, cave and the plant. Besides that, there are many colorful mini crab as well as monkeys.

The 2nd pit stop, we went to floating fish farm. Over here, they rare some type of fishes, and it is mainly for tourist attraction. We begins with the stingray feeding. The tour guide teach us how to feed the stringray. Of course we took this opportunity to try it on. Besides that, we can also feed mackerel and others giant fish.

The other interesting point is we are able to see how fish able to spit water out from their mouth to get the bread. The bread actually was glued to the wood, and the fish will spit water out from its mouth directly to the bread, and it will falls down to the water. How amazing it is. The fish is not rare, but swimming freely on the open water.

On the way to our next stop, our boatman saw sea otter. He purposely drove slowly to the river bank in order for us to catch a glimpse of it. According to our tour guide, sea otter is harmless. They actually will urinate in circle, make those fishes in the circle dizzy before eating them. Averagely, sea otter needs about 4kg of fish per day to survive.

Our final destination, or the main attraction would be the eagle feeding. The eagle will actually swoop down with amazing agility to snatch the chicken guts thrown into the river by the boatmen. However, if there are too many boat around, the eagle will reluntant to comes down. Up in the sky, you will able to see few hundreds of eagle flying around zooming and waiting for the timing to snatch the food.