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TIOMAN

TIOMAN

With lofty cloud shrouded mountains, rainforested slopes and a multitude of bays and beaches, Tioman is a pretty attractive island. Add closeness to Singapore, a good range of accommodation from backpacker to high-end, frequent ferry and airplane services and duty free status and you get a pretty nice place to spend some time. Hey, and no dogs!! as far as I could see. Lots of cats fer you Sylvester fans. Plus heaps of monkeys in the rainforests, some pretty big monitor lizards, some cute squirrel things and the usual tropical bird and marine life.

The most popular tourist beaches are ABC (most accommodation), Salang (liveliest), Juara (best beach and most laid back), and Tekek (best services ). Then we have the Berjaya high end resort, and smaller gems like Panuba.

ABC - (Air Batang) - this 3 km long bay is a bit north of central on the west coast. A good paved path just big enough for motorcycles and bicycles runs the full length, with the pier about midway along. ABC has a good range of budget to flashpacker accommodation, lots of restaurants, a few bars, at least 3 dive operations and half a dozen small stores.
The beach here looks real nice at higher tide levels most places, but when the tide gets towards lowest, most areas show a big expanse of stoney rock flats. The exception is the area right down the southern end where NAZRIS ONE is located where the beach is good all tides. Nazris has a nice beachsided restaurant and is rebuilding accomm following a fire - my April visit saw a rather nice new looking wooden block of rooms across the track.
Two other places that caught my eye are both at the far north end - BAMBOO HILL (a handful of chalets built on the rocks of the northern headland with great views down the bay) and ABC BUNGALOWS which have good looking bungalows starting at 40rm in a very nice garden setting, plus a good beachside restaurant.
Back in 2000 I stayed in the adjacent NAZRIS 2 (Nazis Beach Cabanas) which has a great elevated restaurant with nice food, plus a wide range of bungalows. However a recent TT post talked of stuff missing from rooms showing all the indications of an inside job. They have a new-to-me path-side bar which seemed to be the in-hang for those kewwll longterm travelers and diver types late afternoon.

Tekek is immediately south of ABC across a mid sized headland. The stepped path across the headland prevents the passage of motorcycles and makes it a real effort to carry a bicycle. Tekek is the location of the main village and the path widens enough that 4 wheeled vehicles can move along, although it aint busy. Tekek has a fair bit of accommodation, but most places are not particularly appealing in appearance and the beach here is pretty inferior, suffering erosion in many areas. An exception may be the small area south of the new harbour (under construction) which I didn’t check - this area seemed to have some nice looking buildings and good sand from my distant viewpoint at Panuba Inn (see later).
There are lots of shops and restaurants, particularly in the airport area (the very short strip is just behind the beach roadette and the main pier). This precinct also has a bank with ATM and a couple of duty free shops.
Another attraction is the Marine National Park fish pens against the headland to ABC where you can snorkel at fish feeding time, which is a pretty good experience - you are instantly surrounded by hundreds of fish of various sizes when someone throws some bread in. Look for the small pier.

Salang is at the northern end of the west coast and is many travelers’ favourite. I can see why, having spent a few days there in 1999 and revisiting for a day this trip. The beach is very nice south of the pier, particularly up against the southern headland (lots of sand all tides here - not too shallow offshore low tide), and if you swim out a hundred meters or so you get some coral for interesting snorkeling. There is a surprising amount of accommodation for a relatively compact area. I had no trouble getting something walk-in at the height of the season during my first trip (July) and my hike up to Salang this trip coincided with Saturday on a holiday weekend with lots of locals hitting the island, yet there still seemed to be plenty of vacant bungalows in areas like the far north end of town and the area inland across the small creek south of the pier. Look for really big monitors swimming around in this creek like alligators. There is a good selection of restaurants plus a few bars (including a real neat one on the rocks of the southern headland overlooking the beach - they also put a few tables with umbrellas down on the beach) so this place gets a more social atmosphere at night. But Long Beach Perhentians it aint.

Juara is the the only travelers’ spot on the east coast of the island. This lovely bay is about a km long, and has a great beach in all sections. No problems at different tide levels. There is a nice range of budget to flashpacker places along here - I thought the places north of the pier looked slightly more attractive, but there are some appealing bungalows in the other direction too. Because Juara is not as easy to access as the west coast beaches (the ferries from Mersing don’t come around here) it has a very laid back atmosphere. Even in the July of my first visit, when things were busy on the other side, Juara seemed uncrowded.
There is a similar sized beach to the south of Juara with a few bungalow places, easily reached by a narrow roadway or by crossing a small headland and about 300m of rock.
The road to Tekek is now open. It actually joins the old Tekek-Juara hiking track not too far from the start of the descent down the eastern side, where it becomes paved. A Juara is doomed!!!! post on TT about a year back predicted this would lead to multinational hotels being built by the dozen - well hell, the place looked exactly the same April 2006 as it did back in 1999. I did not notice any building activity. Mind you, the road aint busy - I probably spent about 2 hours walking down and up the section shared with the hiking path and about a dozen motorcycles and less than half a dozen 4 wheeled vehicles passed me.


Panuba Panuba Bay is immediately to the north of ABC - reached via a 10 minute walk over the steep headland on the path alongside Bamboo Hill.
On a my 1997 trip I visited PANUBA INN http://www.panubainn.com/ for a meal. On it’s own small bay with a nice beach and great views from the restaurant and accommodation, I marked it as the one for my next trip. Panuba is really a midrange place, but I got myself one of their least expensive "A" chalets which is closer to backpacker standard. This cost 45 ringgit per night which included breakfast for two. The chalet was spacious, solid, clean and came with towels, soap, shampoo, toilet paper, a nice verandah with good views (but not panoramic like the dearer chalets - virtually all of these not only overlooked Panuba Bay but also southward taking in the bays and mountains for a good 8 km or more, as does the restaurant which is lower down adjacent to the beach). One big demerit was the absence of a mosquito net or window screens in this basic bungalow - reception assured me they had no mosquitoes (hur hur hur) - I applied liberal repellent each night and admit that I was not awoken by the noise of frustrated insects buzzing my ears.
Food in the restaurant was good, prices very reasonable (around the same as the cheaper bungalow restaurants in Thailand, which is pretty cheap, except for water and beer which was dearer) and the service fast and cheerful. Except - several times the restaurant /reception/small store shut up shop in the afternoon and it was impossible to get something to eat or drink for an hour or so while the family was off doing something else.
Panuba’s more expensive accomm looked very appealing. As far as I could tell, just about every room had panoramic elevated views not only over Panuba’s bay, but northward following the sweep of the bay past ABC, Tekek and the luxury resort, with their backdrop of dramatic peaks. Sigh.
Panuba’s beach is fairly small but clean and has very clear water, some nice underwater rocks and clumps of coral for pretty good snorkeling by Asian standards. I saw quite a lot of fish and one smallish very colorful ray. Snorkel gear is available at the restaurant and there are also kayaks to hire. The beach has some lie lows and beach chairs and some good shade in sections. About 3 minutes walk to the north is another section of beach Panuba Inn calls Monkey Beach (there are some monkeys in the rainforest directly behind) which appealed to guests wanting seclusion.
Panuba Inn has its own in house dive operation - Bali Hai Divers, which is maybe stretching the South Pacific thing a bit.*

BERJAYA LUXURY RESORT - is just a bit over a km south of the airport and pier at Tekek. It actually stretches down the coast for what seems several km. From Panuba I walked over the headland to ABC, down along the beach path to Tekek, hired a bicycle near the Marine NP fish pens and then rode the 3 km to the southern headland of Tekek. The resort starts immediately over the other side. And it looked pretty good to me, impressive looking buildings, a golf course and a nice beach area with great sand and no rocks at lowest tide. There is a small island close offshore, easily reached by a fair swimmer, which I remember had pretty good coral, fish and some turtles on its beachward side back in 1999. If you are in the market for a nice package place you could do a lot worse than this joint. Note locals have set up 3 restaurants just outside the resort gates for more variety and cheaper prices in dining, and it’s a pleasant walk into the airport area of Tekek for maybe half a dozen more choices. The resort runs a shuttle into Tekek too.


Trekking - I did two pretty decent walks on Tioman.
TEKEK TO JUARA is a good walk. The turnoff is well signposted on the beach roadette north of Tekek's pier. It only takes 5 minutes to reach the start of the climb over the divide, 45 minutes uphill, another 10 minutes across the saddle, 40 minutes downhill and 10 minutes along the flat into Juara. The uphill section is a good walking track thru great rainforest, steps cut in places, steep in parts but not a killer. There is a small waterfall on the way up. Not far past the start of the downhill the track becomes paved and is shared by vehicles, but as I said before, not many. Actually this section is a good workout on the return, because it is pretty steep in parts and more open to the hot sun. I met some girls carrying big packs up here in 1999, changing beaches. Jeez, better them than me.

ABC TO SALANG is more difficult, but has a couple of nice bays along the way, and is a good way of seeing the other end without paying the rip-off water taxi fares (more later). The trip took me about 2 hours of actual walking time each way. From ABC past Panuba to the afore mentioned Monkey Beach takes less than 12 minutes. From here it’s a matter of following the power lines as the locals told me. The newly laid lines more or less follow the track rather than vice versa. They are never far apart for any great distance. So in most places finding the way is fairly easy, the track is pretty clear and where it parts compay with the power lines is often marked with plastic bottles upended on sticks or colored ribbons. When you come to both fairly big bays (which are great for a cooling swim and some sun - btw the bay closer to Salang is called Monkey Bay not to confuse with Panuba’s Monkey Beach), head for the far end of the beach to pick up the track again (look for the power lines). Slopes along here are pretty easy except for the 20 minutes on each side of Salang’s southern headland where the uphill is a real good workout.
I met quite a few people walking between Salang and Monkey Bay, but no-one on the Panuba side of this.
When leaving Salang, the track starts just on the western side of the water tanks for the western most operating bungalow place on the headland slopes (not the 80% finished but abandoned super luxury resort to its west. Does anyone know the plans for this joint? I’m sure it was only 70% complete but abandoned in 1999. It also looked in great condition this April like someone is doing maintenance. Wooden joints usually deteriorate very quickly in the tropics).
Actually, on the way back I lost the track in two places - but if this happens you will soon know as the way becomes super difficult real quick. I back-tracked and found the right way easily both times.
There are lots of monkeys along this track. There didn’t seem to be any aggressive dominant males like one I once met in Sumatra, but I always carry a really big bush stick anyway.

Apparently you can also walk southward from Tekek, thru Berjaya’s golf course and hit a track which goes a fair way south to Genting, a nice beach on the southern west coast. I didn’t have time to do this one.

Transport - Berjaya Air seems to have half a dozen flights per day, shared between KL and Singapore. The fast ferry service from Mersing on the mainland is really good - there always seemed to be one passing Panuba. April fare was 70rm return and you can use your return on either of the two companies. Trip takes about 2 hours. The ferries stop at Tekek, ABC and Salang, and will stop at most other west coast piers if informed beforehand.
There is also a faster speedboat service at slightly higher cost.
The fast ferry from Singapore has not run for some time.
The water taxi service around the island has fixed prices and aint cheap. From ABC, Salang was 20rm, Monkey Bay 15 and Panuba 10. I noticed no prices for Juara - maybe the bungalows’ taxi services have taken over - one modest place was offering Juara-Tekek for 70rm! I’m not sure if the afternoon around island boat shuttle is still running for Juara drop-offs.

Excursions - the Around Island Trip is great, but at 100rm, expensive. It calls in at Juara for some beach time, a compact bay on the southern tip of the island for a trek up to a small waterfall in the rainforest, some good snorkeling at that small island near the luxury resort and a visit to the MNP fish pens for a snorkel at feeding time. Any bungalow, restaurant etc can book you in.
The Coral Island snorkeling trip is okay. Coral Isand is a few km off the nw corner of Tioman and has reasonable coral and marine life in a big bay on the Tioman side. My trip also took in some beach time on a gorgeous deserted beach on the other side - sand so white it hurt the eyes. We also spent some time at Salang. Cost 60rm.

Weather - the wet season usually ends some time in Feb or early March and kicks in again in October, although I once saw a post by a regular visitor saying Oct was great because rain is in short bursts and you still get lots of really nice days. Nov Dec and Jan tend to be real wet, sometimes with days where budget travellers can’t access or get off the island because the ferries don’t run.
BTW, I reckon this is the real reason for all the construction work on the new harbour at Tekek. TT’s anti development lobby was carrying on about cruise liners and the US 6th Fleet! Fact is Tioman locals deserve an all weather anchorage so that they can exit or return without sometimes having to wait several days. The ferries mostly stop running not because of big seas when crossing, but because of potential damage when docking at the unsheltered piers on rough days.


*That old 50s movie classic South Pacific was filmed at Tioman - in the South China Sea. Don’t ask me why except the scenery fits. Bali Hai was one of the major hit songs from the movie, sung by Fifty Cent’s granddaddy, Half a Dime. Small change went a lot further in those days. Okay, some of you PhDs in Entertainment know I made that last bit up. The singer was really Snoop Dog’s great-uncle, Pluto PI.
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Dive Resorts

Dive Resorts

Mabul is your diving vacation gateway to diving the 3 islands. Apart from diving in Mabul, you are only minutes away by boat to diving in Sipadan and Kapalai too. And to make your vacation great, we want to make sure the resort you stay in is just perfect too.
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Mabul Water Bungalows
Mabul Water Bungalows is a new floating dive-resort situated on Mabul Island. It overlooks the world-known Sipadan Island. The resort has 12 wooden bungalows (or villas) built entirely on stilts over water. The design is inspired by local village house architecture. Each villa is exquisitely furnished with contemporary décor, equipped with air-conditioning, ceiling fan, private bathroom, hot and cold fresh water, spacious private balcony, colour satellite TV, mini bar and in-room safety box.

From US$596 per diver per night


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Sipadan Mabul Resort
Sipadan Mabul Resort is nestled in a coconut grove on the south-east of Mabul Island. It overlooks the turquoise blue sea and near by Sipadan Island. The resort has 45 wooden duplex chalets. Each room features two oversized single beds, a couch, shelves, ceiling fan, flyscreen windows, air-conditioning, hot and cold fresh water and a front verandah.

Sipadan Mabul Resort is awarded PADI Gold Palm Resorts

From US$500 per diver per night

Scuba Diving at Kapalai Island

Scuba Diving at Kapalai Island

Actually, Kapalai Island isn’t really an island per se. It is more like a sandbank of the Ligitan Reefs out in the sea. And the sandbank is only visible during low tide. It was an island long long time ago, but erosion from the sea has pretty much washed it away. Don’t let the description put you off. The location is really beautiful and has some of my favourite dive spots here. It is also the place I visited when I was still a rookie diver and still not very good with my buoyancy – more of this later.

The sandy bottom and sparse coral heads is home to an amazing array of small, shamelessly colourful creatures and great for divers who are avid underwater photographers. Often, many of these creatures have yet to be identified as a species. Who knows? Maybe one could be named after you.
Kapalai Island Dive Sites
Kapalai Island Dive Sites

Some popular dive sites include:

* Black Ray Channel
* Blue Spotted Garden
* Cleaning Station
* Coral Garden
* East Point
* Eel Garden
* Flambo Reef
* Frontier Reef
* Great Wall
* Gurnard Ground
* Kapalai Rock
* Ken's Reef
* Kets Goby Land
* Little Okinawa
* Lobster Rock
* Lonely Reef
* Lost World
* Mandarin Garden
* Mandarin Valley
* Mantis Ground
* Mid Reef
* Nudi Branchia
* Relep One
* Siu Siu Point
* Stingray City
* Sweetlips Table
* Twin Peak
* Twin Reef

Diving in Kapalai, you will likely encounter a lot of macroworld subjects such as banded pipefishes, blue ribbon and yellow ribbon morays, blue spotted stingrays, butterfly fish, cleaning shrimps, clown anemone fishes, crocodile fishes,groupers, humpback shrimps, lambis truncata seashells, mandarin dragonets, mantis shrimps, spotted boxfishes, squirrel and trumpet fishes, various species of nudibranchs, paperfishes, triggerfishes, crab eyed gobies, gold specs jawfish, razor fishes, porcupine fishes, and rarer subjects as blue ring octopus, frogfish and ghostpipe fish.

Remember I mentioned about not being good with my buoyancy? It happened on my first dive of my first visit to Kapalai Island. It was also the first time I went on a diving vacation after being recently certified as a PADI Open Water Diver. We were at Mandarin Valley. The highpght towards the end of the dive was seeing a pair of beautiful Mandarin dragonets doing the mating dance.

By this time, my tank was already light and pulling me up to the surface. Dumping all the air from my buoyancy compensator device (BCD) didn’t help. So here I was, standing upside down, finning frantically downwards, just trying to stay in position while all my then girlfriend (now wife) and another good friend were comfortably above the reef looking at the mating dance. I wonder if the they were more amused by the mating dance or my futile attempts at staying underwater.

After a while, exhaustion took over and I gave up finning. So I floated to the surface and just have to be content with seeing the small Mandarin fishes doing the dance from 18 meters above. Needless to say, I had to pve this down for a very very long time.

You may be thinking – hold on! How can a certified diver still not be able to dive properly? It was my fault. I’ve just gotten a new dive suit but neglected to test it’s buoyancy with a near empty tank before going on the dives. So, to all new divers out there, this is what you should do especially if you have just acquired new gear!

Scuba Diving at Mabul Island

Scuba Diving at Mabul Island

Mabul Island first became popular due to its close proximity to Sipadan Island. However in the last few years, it has gained its own recognition as one of the best “muck diving” sites in the world. Mabul Island is a small oval shaped island surrounded by sandy beaches and perched on the northwest corner of a larger 200 hectare reef. The reef is on the edge of the continental shelf and the seabed surrounding the reef slopes out to between 25 to 30m deep.

Mabul is arguably one of the richest single destinations for exotic small marine life anywhere in the world. Flamboyant cuttlefish, blue-ringed octopus, mimic octopus and bobtail squids are just a few of the numerous types of cephalopods to be found on Mabul’s reef. The sight of harlequin shrimp feeding on sea stars and boxer crabs waving their tiny anemone pom-poms are just a small example of the endless species of crustaceans. Many types of gobies can be found including the spike-fin goby, black sail-fin goby and metallic shrimp goby. Frogfish are everywhere. Giant, painted and clown frogfish are all regularly seen. Moray eels and snake eels of many types can be seen along with almost the whole scorpionfish family. It would be quicker to to list the species not found at Mabul-crazy critters are in abundance at this magical macro site!
Mabul Island Dive Sites
Mabul Island Dive Sites

Popular dive sites around the island include:

* Coral Reef Garden
* Crocodile Avenue
* Eel Garden
* Froggy Lair
* Lobster Wall
* Nudibranch Centre
* Panglima Reef
* Ray Point

Scuba Diving at Sipadan Island

Dive Resorts

Mabul is your diving vacation gateway to diving the 3 islands. Apart from diving in Mabul, you are only minutes away by boat to diving in Sipadan and Kapalai too. And to make your vacation great, we want to make sure the resort you stay in is just perfect too.
Mabul Water Bungalows thumbnail

Mabul Water Bungalows
Mabul Water Bungalows is a new floating dive-resort situated on Mabul Island. It overlooks the world-known Sipadan Island. The resort has 12 wooden bungalows (or villas) built entirely on stilts over water. The design is inspired by local village house architecture. Each villa is exquisitely furnished with contemporary décor, equipped with air-conditioning, ceiling fan, private bathroom, hot and cold fresh water, spacious private balcony, colour satellite TV, mini bar and in-room safety box.

From US$596 per diver per night


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Sipadan Mabul Resort
Sipadan Mabul Resort is nestled in a coconut grove on the south-east of Mabul Island. It overlooks the turquoise blue sea and near by Sipadan Island. The resort has 45 wooden duplex chalets. Each room features two oversized single beds, a couch, shelves, ceiling fan, flyscreen windows, air-conditioning, hot and cold fresh water and a front verandah.

Sipadan Mabul Resort is awarded PADI Gold Palm Resorts

From US$500 per diver per night


Scuba Diving at Sipadan Island

Sipadan Island is a small rainforest covered tropical island rising from a depth of more than 600 meters from the bottom of the Celebes Sea. It is the only oceanic island in the region. The island is the top of a long-lost lava chimney from a prehistoric volcano. The very famous late French underwater explorer and filmmaker, Jacques-Yves Cousteau once remarked about Sipadan Island “I have seen other places like Sipadan… 45 years ago. Now we have found again an untouched piece of art.” Although that was many years ago, it is still true today. The island is arguably the top dive destination in the world.

The island is about 45 minutes from Semporna town by speedboat in calm seas. Other nearby islands include Mabul Island and Kapalai Island. All within just a short hop by speed boat ride from each other.
Sipadan Island Dive Sites
Sipadan Island Dive Sites

So what do you expect to see? Lots! And if you enjoy seeing pelagic fishes and underwater creatures, then this is where you should be spending your diving vacation. Some of the popular dive spots around the island include:

* Barracuda Point
* Coral Gardens
* Drop Off
* Hanging Garden
* Lobster Lair
* Midreef
* South Point
* Staghorn Crest
* Turtle Patch
* Turtle Tomb
* West Ridge
* White-tip Avenue

There’s a reason why the place is called the Drop Off. Imagine just kneeling down in shallow water and looking straight down into the abyss 600 meters away at the edge. Really scary and exciting at the same time! During your dives at the Drop Off, you might see (or maybe bump into, if you don’t see where you are going) a couple of Manta Rays playing nearby.

Chances are very good that you will encounter a big swirling school of thousands of chevron barracudas and also see packs of patrolling grey reef sharks at Barracuda Point.

If you are lucky, you can spot the largest shark species, the Whale Shark gliding by in the current off South Point during it’s migration.

Encounter a living wall of hundreds of Hammerhead Sharks rising like ghosts from the deep, glowing in the open blue water at the Hanging Gardens.

In the course of your dive vacation, you will also likely come across a glinting and shimmering rolling ball of hundreds of jacks, a herd of very large giant bumphead parrotfish grazing on the reef top, scores of white tip reef sharks, and at least a dozen or so turtles of two different species: the Hawksbill Turtle and the Green Turtle.

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Malaysia's Islands

TELUK DALAM, REDANG Crystal-clear waters, powdery soft sands, this beach is a must visit when you are in Redang	PASIR PANJANG, REDANG Redang's most popular beach, and despite the crowds, it is one of the most exciting beaches in Malaysia	MABUL BEACH Swaying coconut trees, white sands and deep blue skies, the beach is a welcoming sight for visitors
JETTY BEACH, SIPADAN Sipadan is not for just for scuba divers, the beach is beautiful enough for sun-seekers	SAPI BEACH, TAR MARINE PARK Just a few minutes from bustling downtown Kota Kinabalu, you will be amazed by the colours and clarity of the waters	LANG TENGAH BEACH Often overshadowed by sister islands of Redang and Perhentian, the island still holds a subtle charm for visitors
TELUK PAUH, PERHENTIAN Ever seen a huge natural swimming pool? This beach is the answer, truly a sun-worshipper's paradise	PULAU RAWA, PERHENTIAN A small beach with azure blue waters and teeming marine life, good enough to find a spot to call your own	RAWA BEACH, JOHOR A private island with superb beach with plenty of space for the ultimate seclusion
:: MALAYSIA DIVE SITES ::
BARRACUDA POINT, SIPADAN This world-famous site is known for its school of great barracudas flocking the site by the hundreds, if not thousands	PULAU CHEBEH, TIOMAN Reputably the best dive site in Tioman with amazing visibility, jaw-dropping amount of colourful sea fans and teeming fish	MID REEF, SIPADAN Amazing soft and hard coral varieties, and frequented by large pelagic specie such as green turtles and sharks
MALANG ROCK, TIOMAN A popular dive site in Tioman, known for its vast expanse of hard corals and teeming marine life	CORAL GARDEN, PAYAR No doubt about its name, this dive site dispels the myth that the busy Straits of Malacca often associated with	SALANG WRECK, TIOMAN An interesting dive site in Tioman, with healthy coral growth and prolific marine life
PULAU KERENGGA, REDANG A breathtaking collection of century-old reef network with common sightings of turtles and Jenkins whipray	TOKONG LAUT, PERHENTIAN The most popular dive site on Perhentian with great underwater offering and occasional visit by whale sharks	HANGING GARDEN, PULAU GAYA See why this dive site is called a "Hanging Garden" - enormous sea fans, colourful soft corals and great visibility to match

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Langkawi is an archipelago of 99 islands

Langkawi is an archipelago of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea, some 30 km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia. The islands are a part of Malaysia's Kedah state, but are adjacent to the Thai border. By far the largest of the islands is the eponymous Pulau Langkawi (Langkawi Island) with a population of some 45,000, the only other inhabited island being nearby Pulau Tuba.

The name "Langkawi" is believed to be related to the kingdom of Langkasuka, itself a version of the Malay negari alang-kah suka ("the land of all one's wishes"), centered in modern-day Kedah. The historical record is sparse, but a Chinese Liang Dynasty record (c. 500 AD) refers to the kingdom of "Langgasu" as being founded in the 1st century AD.
Langkawi eventually came under the influence of the Sultanate of Kedah, but Kedah was conquered in 1821 by Siam and Langkawi along with it. The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 transferred power to the British, which held the state until independence, except for a brief period of Thai rule under the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II. Thai influences remain visible in the culture and food of Langkawi.
Langkawi remained a sleepy backwater until 1987, when the island was granted tax-free status with the intention of promoting tourism and improve the lives of the islanders. The following boom was spectacular and now Langkawi figures on most every European travel agency's radar.
Sheltered by the mountainous backbone of Peninsular Malaysia, Langkawi escapes the northeastern winter monsoon entirely and enjoys sunny skies in winter when the eastern provinces are flooded. Coupled with natural white sand beaches, lush jungle foliage and craggy mountain peaks - but hampered by inaccessibility - the island was at one time touted as "Malaysia's best-kept secret".
Langkawi, its formation was intricately associated with myths and legends. The two most prominent mountains in Langkawi Gunung Machinchang (Mat Cincang Mountain Range) and Gunung Raya (Mat Raya Mountain) tell the tale of the fight between families of giants.
The story tells the tale of a wedding - with Mat Raya's son wanting to marry Mat Cincang's daughter. During the wedding feast, a fight broke out between the two wedding parties. Pots and pans were flung at each other. Some said, the fight started when the son caught flirting with another woman.
Followed after the fight, a series of strange name fall on Langkawi. A large pot of gravy (kuah) was broken and the contents flowed onto the ground. Where the gravy spilt, became know as Kuah (the largest town on Langkawi island) and where the crockery (belanga) was broken (pecah) was location of the village Kampung Belanga Pecah (belaga pecah means broken crockery). The gravy seep in (kisap) through the land at the village named Kisap.