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.