With free time to spare—we arrived very early in Langkawi from Penang and our room at Mercure Langkawi Pantai Cenang was nonetheless unavailable—we determined to go to one among Langkawi’s hottest vacationer spots, the Underwater World Langkawi.
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| KID A AND BG AT PANTAI CENANG BEACH |
Positioned on the southern finish of Pantai Cenang or Cenang Seaside, it may well simply be accessed by reserving Seize vehicles, passing taxis, or just by strolling—that’s for those who’re staying alongside the Pantai Cenang space of Langkawi like us. So, stroll we did.
BOOKING TICKETS
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| UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI FACADE DURING EVENINGS |
Underwater World Langkawi tickets might be purchased straight from their foyer or on-line by way of reserving apps.
We had ours by way of Klook, which has reductions. Redemption was fairly straightforward, we merely confirmed our on-line reserving, they scanned it, gave us bodily tickets, and we’re in.
UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI
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| KID A AT THE UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI |
Dubbed as one of many largest marine and freshwater oceanarium in South East Asia, Underwater World Langkawi hosts greater than 4 thousand animals and aquatic life varieties alongside its sprawling grounds. It’s divided into three main sections, that are additional subdivided into eleven areas.
TEMPERATE SECTION
The primary space we explored was Underwater World Langkawi’s Temperate Part. It’s actually not the primary space you’ll see on the aquarium, however we entered UWL simply in time for the penguin feeding, and people are positioned on this part.
To get there, we handed a number of sectors, however backtracking is allowed, so no downside there.
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| AFRICAN BLACK-FOOTED PENGUINS AT THE UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI |
The Temperate Part options round sixty African black-footed penguins, which you’ll be able to see above and beneath water—they’ve a mini eight-meter aquarium tunnel the place you’ll be able to view penguins swiftly swimming underwater. These guys are quick!
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| UWL’S EIGHT-METER AQUARIUM TUNNEL |
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| THE HYPER-ACTIVE SOUTH AMERICAN SEAL |
Additionally they have a separate enclosure for his or her South American fur seal, this animal is overwhelmingly enormous and you’ll actually really feel its energy underwater when considered up shut.
SUB-ANTARCTIC SECTION
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| THE FUNKY LOOKING ROCKHOPPER PENGUINS AT UWL |
Proper alongside this space is one other part that includes penguins, twenty 5 rockhopper Penguins to be precise. Their enclosure appears to be like much like their black-footed counterparts, nonetheless, they don’t have an aquarium tunnel beneath. These rockhoppers are a lot cuter although, sporting their funky hair-style—which are literally yellow and black feathers.
PREVIEW TANK
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| THE PREVIEW TANK AND RIVER ECOSYSTEM |
After the penguin feeding demo, we backtracked to the primary part of Underwater World Langkawi, the Freshwater Space which has the aptly titled Preview Tank—a preview of what you’ll see on the oceanarium. However to be truthful, that is hardly a cross-section of what Underwater World Langkawi has to supply, they’ve extra.
The primary attraction of this space is the so-called Jurassic fish, the arapaima. It’s the largest freshwater fish on Earth and might develop to greater than eight ft. There are additionally wallago catfish and freshwater stingrays.
RIVER ECOSYSTEM
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| CHINESE WATER DRAGON |
Simply throughout is the River Ecosystem space, a sequence of three connecting tanks depicting a river ecosystem. Nonetheless a part of the Freshwater Part, it options freshwater fishes from all around the world. Moreover these, it additionally has a set of distinctive reptiles reminiscent of Chinese language water dragons, Indonesian blue-tongued skink, and a number of snakes.
TROPICAL RAINFOREST
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| UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI’S TROPICAL RAINFOREST AREA |
Transferring inwards, an open-air space simulating a tropical rainforest options pink flamingos—a favourite of Child A—and free-roaming birds like cockatoos, macaws, ruddy shelducks, and colourful pheasants. Additionally, be looking out for cute marmoset monkeys scurrying above the timber.
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| PINK FLAMINGOS AT UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI |
Proper in the midst of the rainforest is an enormous tank residence to gigantic strange-looking fishes that appears straight out of Jurassic Park—knifefishes, big gouramies, and arowanas.
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| HUGE JURASSIC-LOOKING FISHES AT UWL |
TOUR BREAK
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| THE REQUISITE TOURIST SHOT FOR KID A |
The rainforest exits into the penguin space, which we have now already explored. Then to a photograph gallery the place your photographs are taken for the requisite memento picture on the finish of the tour. A mini café, and at last, to the oceanarium space of Underwater World Langkawi.
HEXAGONAL TANK & TUNNEL TANK
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| A VIEW OF THE HEXAGONAL TANK FROM THE TUNNEL TUNK |
The most important aquarium in Underwater World Langkawi is their Hexagonal Tank. It’s 70,000 liters giant and is residence to black tip sharks, white tip sharks, enormous manta rays, turtles, Pakistani butterflyfish, Madras snapper, and an astoundingly giant 600-kilogram groper fish.
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| THE BIGGEST GROPER FISH I’VE EVER SEEN |
A fifteen-meter lengthy aquarium tunnel cuts throughout the tank and from right here, you’ll be able to even see a sunken ship wreck. This, for us, was the spotlight of Underwater World Langkawi.
KOI POND
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| A BREATHER AT THE KOI POND |
After that intense expertise, we have been capable of breathe out on the Koi Pond space—a small open-aired part crammed with tropical vegetation, a pretend waterfall, and a pond. Alongside the water swims quite a few Japanese native carps popularly generally known as kois. There are additionally sultan fishes and chichids, though, to my untrained eye, I solely noticed kois, lol.
INVERTEBRATE / CORAL REEF / VENOMOUS & POISONOUS SECTIONS
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| SHELL OF PRICKLY KING CRAB ON DISPLAY |
Earlier than exiting, we handed via the ultimate space showcasing sea invertebrates, coral reef fishes, and toxic creatures. These are housed in smaller aquariums and show instances for taxidermized animals, which are not any much less attention-grabbing.
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| A TYPICAL JELLYFISH DISPLAY AND OF COURSE, NEMOS |
And a favourite for everybody is, in fact, the tank containing clown fishes or Nemos. I additionally dig the jellyfish space, which was fairly psychedelic.
SOUVENIR SHOP & SHOPPING AREA
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| DUTY FREE SHOPPING AREA |
Guests exit via the Langkawi Underwater World memento store and The Zon Responsibility Free store. The entire of Langkawi is responsibility free, so you could find these tax-free outlets wherever. To be truthful, even when it’s a vacationer lure, The Zon is without doubt one of the extra intensive responsibility free shops round Langkawi.
MCDONALD’S LANGKAWI
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| LUNCH AT MCDONALD’S UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI |
And to cap off our tour, we headed to McDonald’s for a considerably native lunch of Nasi Lemak McD + Two-Piece Ayam Goreng Spicy. Yup, they’ve nasi lemak in McDonald’s full with spicy rooster and sambal besides!
There’s additionally a Starbucks inside the constructing, however we weren’t capable of test it out, I ponder if they’ve iced teh tarik there too.
~ BIG THANKS TO KLOOK FOR MAKING THIS TOUR POSSIBLE, VIEWS & OPINIONS ALL MINE
Underwater World Langkawi ► BOOK TICKETS
Handle: Jalan Pantai Cenang, Kedawang, Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia
Contact Quantity: (604) 955-6100
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