April 30, 2012 @ Pulau Payar Marine Park, Langkawi, Malaysia



Tickets for Palau Payar Marine Park day tour


Catamaran services operated by Langkawi Coral


Takes about 45 minutes to get to Pulau Payar


Pulau Payar is off mainland Kedah in the Strait of Malacca


Low tide we need to transfer to Pulau Payar by smaller boat


Pulau Payar is famous for its corals


Pier tp Pulau Payar


Using a children size life jacket


Glad I found this path to a less crowded beach


Colorful rocks


It is PACK with tourists


Ummm, no feeding the fishes


Diverse marine life


Shark!!


Coral etiquette


Diverse marine life


Floating platform Langkawi Coral


Branch with a lot of leaf


FF @ Pulau Payar


Measuring 2 km long and 1/4 km wide


FF


Sun and beach


Cora


Paradise


Beach picnic


Path connecting the two beaches


The main facilities, pack with people!


Shark!


Coral Garden


Diverse marine life


Huge grouper


Contrast with a small fish


Coral & fish


Paradise


Before


After


Use the beach across from the platform, it is less crowded


Floating platform


Blue sky and white clouds


Beach @ Pulau Payar


Pretty cloud


Me chiling after a lot of snorkeling


Paradise


Swing


Soooooo many variety of fishes


Shark


Cora & Me


Note the baby shark underneath?


3 sharks!


Me


Finally all the tourist are gone


I shall be back!


Just like swimming in an aquarium


Oysters?


Baby shark exposed


Happy day


Next goal: PADI


Storm in the Langkawi Island


Life jackets


Kuah jetty


Eagle Square


Bird


Bird


Giant eagle statue


It is going to rain hard


Me @ Eagle Square


FF @ Eagle Square


Gunung Raya is shadowed by clouds again


Scenic ponds, bridges and coverd terraces


What a big contrast


Scenic ponds, bridges and coverd terraces


Scenic ponds, bridges and coverd terraces


Scenic ponds, bridges and coverd terraces


Langkawi


Toucan


Toucan


Malaysia


Kuah town


Cheapest in town for Pulau Payar trip, 90 MYR


Mango duck salad


Water spot crab


Pulau Payar Marine Park


Pulau Payar Marine Park