LANGKAWI MANGROVE TOUR.

MANGROVE TOUR

Mangrove Tour in Kilim River, Langkawi is an adventurous trip which may take up from one to four hours to finish. The boat will cruise you along the river (Kilim River) which will make a stop at the Bat Cave. At Bat Cave, you may explore the cave with guidance of the boatman. Inside, hundreds of bat hanging at the cave roof, silently. You can see bats but if you bring camera, you could photograph them with a flash. No worry, they will not fly on your head.

Along the cruise, you can feed the eagle, which called ‘eagle feeding’. Eagle feeding is not difficult but very interesting activities. In minutes, you will see a dozen of eagle flying over your head. The boatman will do his trick to call the eagle (Brown Eagles) from the mangrove forest or the hill side nearby. Maybe those eagles familiar with the sound of the engine and as well as the food thrown in the water, so they come visiting you. Not just the eagle, Tree Crab, Monitor Lizard and Macaques are also available.

As you cruise down the calm, winding river, you will observe the wonders of the park’s marine ecosystem, enjoy the scenic and spectacular views of unique limestone rock formations emerging from the floor of the mangrove swamp and seabed.

Not to miss, enjoy yourself with varieties of fish in cages, floating restaurant, fish farm restaurant or some says Hole in the Wall. What ever it is, they have a nice chef that cook good food for you. The fish is of course from the farm. Very mouth watering meal indeed.

The Langkawi Geopark is made up of 99 tropical islands off the northwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia covering an area of about 478 square kilometer. These rocky tropical legendary islands are rich in geodiversity, many of which have scientific value of national and regional significant. Langkawi Geopark highlights the region’s most complete Palaeozoic geological history and outstanding beauty of tropical island karst landscape. The Palaeozoic rocks of Langkawi Geopark contain among others the oldest strata in the region, complete Palaeozoic succession from Cambrian to Permian, and best sedimentological and palaeontological evidences affiliating Langkawi and the surrounding region with Gondwanaland. Langkawi Geopark portrays a rich mixtures of surface water, ground water and ocean wave originated karstic landscape including some rare formation of islands and hills, ridges and pinnacles; gorges, wangs and doline lakes; caves, tunnels and their diverse cave deposit landforms; and sea-notches, sea-caves, sea-tunnels, sea-arches and sea-stacks. Langkawi Geopark geoheritage sites are mostly protected within the Malaysian holistic nature conservation concept of Geoforest Park where rock conservation is equally treated as biological conservation and other nature conservation components. Three geoforest parks of Langkawi are the Machinchang Cambrian, Kilim Karst and Dayang Bunting Marble Geoforest Parks, each of which highlighting its own unique geology and geological landscape. Other smaller conservation areas are the Recreational Forest and State Permanent Forest Reserves, which hosted several protected geoheritage sites and geological monuments outside the geoforest parks.

Langkawi Geopark Overview

Langkawi Geopark is Malaysia's first geopark and is located in the far northwestern corner of peninsular Malaysia. Located in northern State of Kedah, it is unique in the sense that it was formed on 99 islands that together made up the legendary Langkawi Archipelago.

The total land area of Langkawi Geopark is about 478km2.

It is accessible by sea from Kuala Perlis , Kuala Kedah and Penang jetties or by air from Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore and Bangkok.

Langkawi has been dubbed as the birthplace or the fetus land of the region. The various natural landscapes of Langkawi reflects the island's geodiversity and its complex geological history. It has the best-exposed and most complete Palaeozoic sedimentary sequence in Malaysia beginning from Cambrian to the Permian period. Later during the Mesozoic, the islands underwent a major tectonic event that resulted in the emplacement of its numerous granitic igneous bodies.

This incredible power generated by nature from the deep mantle beneath the earth has driven up huge blocks of older rocks and somehow placed them above a very much younger terrain.

In Langkawi geological history, much of its geological development was somewhat linked to what had happened in the old supercontinent Pangea and southern hemispheric Gondwanaland since more than 550 million years ago. It started in the deposition of Machinchang sandstone in a lacustrine environment during much of the Cambrian time, followed by the submergence of the land during Late Cambrian time (--500m.y.) which allowed the invasion of shallow marine fauna into the proto-Langkawi sea. The continuous subsidence of the sea floor resulted in the formation of thick limestone of Setul Formation during the Ordovician. At the end of Ordovician time (--440m.y.), the sea became too deep to eventually stop the limestone deposition temporarily.

Setul limestone continued to develop during Silurian until the Middle Devonian (-370m.y.), followed by the deposition of sandstone and mudstone which sometimes are related to the rafted ice due to the global melting of Gondwana ice cap.

The dropstone bearing black sandstone and mudstone of Singa Formation is succeeded by the limestone of Chuping Formation during the Early Permian (-280m.y.) before the sea was slowly brought up by a complicated tectonic process.

The Chuping limestone is believed to have stopped depositing before the end of Permian (-245m.y.) by this tectonic event that among others brought up a large block of earth crust in the eastern part of Langkawi overlapping the much younger block in the west. The tectonic event ended up with the emplacement of granite beneath the Langkawi crust at the end of Triassic (-220m.y.).

What we have in Langkawi today is a combined result of these various processes and the prolonged weathering process that took place ever since the Langkawi land was brought to the surface around 220 million years ago. As a result, we have a beautiful mountainous range of Machinchang sandstone at the northwestern corner of Langkawi Island, the conical Gunung Raya granite at the center and a rugged karst terrain of Setul Limestone in the eastern part of Langkawi.

In the southwest of Langkawi islands, the Singa formation dominated while the Chu ping Limestone dominates the western part of Dayang Bunting Island. Some of the landscapes are truly outstanding, particularly those of the Machinchang and the karstic limestone in the eastern part of Langkawi.

HOTEL / CHALET RESERVATION

Hotel name	Location	Price from
	Aseania Resort Langkawi	Pantai Tengah	MYR 130.00
	Awana Porto Malai	Pantai Tengah	MYR 178.00
	Bayview Hotel Langkawi	Kuah	MYR 171.00
	Beach Garden Resort	Pantai Chenang	MYR 180.00
	Berjaya Langkawi Beach And Spa Resort	Pantai Kok	MYR 330.00
	Casa Del Mar	Pantai Chenang	MYR 540.00
	Century Suria Service Apartments	Kuah	MYR 230.00
	Eagle Bay Hotel	Kuah	MYR 99.00
	Federal Villa Langkawi	Pantai Tengah	MYR 214.00
	Geopark Hotel Oriental Village	Pantai Kok	MYR 160.00
	Holiday Villa Beach Resort And Spa	Pantai Tengah	MYR 293.00
	Hotel Grand Continental Langkawi	Kuah	MYR 135.00
	Hotel Helang	Padang Matsirat	MYR 135.00
	Kampung Tok Senik Resort	Kuah	MYR 251.00
	Kondo Istana	Kuah	MYR 125.00
	Langkasuka Resort	Padang Matsirat	MYR 135.00
	Langkawi Lagoon Resort	Padang Matsirat	MYR 403.00
	Langkawi Seaview Hotel	Kuah	MYR 118.00
	Mutiara Burau Bay	Pantai Kok	MYR 270.00
	Nadias Inn Comfort Langkawi	Pantai Chenang	MYR 120.00
	Pelangi Beach And Spa Resort	Pantai Chenang	MYR 610.00
	Rebak Marina Resort	Rebak Island	MYR 281.00
	Sheraton Langkawi Beach Resort	Pantai Kok	MYR 620.00
	Sunset Beach Resort Langkawi	Pantai Tengah	MYR 160.00
	Tanjung Rhu Resort	Tanjung Rhu Beach	MYR 1050.00
	Tanjung Sanctuary Langkawi	Pantai Kok	MYR 68.00
	The Andaman Langkawi	Datai Bay	MYR 1513.00
	The Datai Langkawi	Datai Bay	MYR 2100.00
	The Frangipani Langkawi Resort & Spa	Pantai Tengah	MYR 452.00
	The Lanai Langkawi Beach Resort	Pantai Tengah	MYR 187.00
	The Westin Langkawi Resort & Spa	Kuah	MYR 702.00

mangrove boat trip

mangrove boat trip, a photo by kiki-kana on Flickr.

We offer you trips that will get you close to the beautiful flora and fauna
of Langkawi without harming the environment of Langkawi.

eagle fedding

DSC04542, a photo by itchysolesweettooth on Flickr.

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