The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island.

We had 2 days to choose for the Cable Car ride on this trip to Langkawi, because it's to avoid the bad weather. Fortunately, the 2nd day was a bright sunny day! So we decided to ride on the Gondola! :)

The Langkawi Cable Car Station (N6 22.273 E99 40.296) is located in the Oriental Village of Langkawi. The distance is approximately 26km from Langkawi Grand Continental Hotel, Kuah town, the journey took about 30-40 minutes. Vehicles parking and admission is free.

The street of Oriental Village, Langkawi Island.

After about 100 meters walking from the entrance, we saw the Cable Car Station just situated on the left. Wah! It was a Long Queue!

The Langkawi Cable Car Station

The admission fees of the Langkawi Cable Car :-

Adults - MYR30.00 (Malaysian - MYR15.00), Children - MYR20.00 (Malaysian - MYR5.00)

(But the signage never stated the admission fee for Malaysian)
Operating Hour :-

Monday – Thursday * 10:00am - 06:00pm

Wednesday * 12:00pm - 06:00pm

Friday – Sunday & Public Holiday ** 09:30am - 07:00pm

*  Last admission at 6:00pm and last trip down at 7:00pm
** Last admission at 7:00pm and last trip down at 7:45pm

Visitors are advise to call before visiting to avoid disappointment.
Tel : +604-9594225

There will be a Middle Station for you to stop for panoramic view on the platform and continue to the Top Station of Mount Machinchang.

Well, despite the hot weather and the long queue, we bought the tickets and queue! Although the queue was long, but it only took about 10 minutes for us to got into the Gondola! That was Fast! Great! 

The queue at the Langkawi Cable Car Station

Queuing for the Gondolas.

The gondolas slow down when it arrive to the station, it's more than enough time for the passengers to step out slowly and even enter! Before the gondolas getting our of the station, there was a photographer to take photos of the passengers, but you can refuse it!

Passengers get into the gondola...

The sophisticated mechanism of the Langkawi Cable Car

The Middle Station was on the top on the mountain

We were in the gondola and hike up to the Mount Machinchang of Langkawi Island! It was a pleasant journey and it only took 10 minutes to reached the Middle Station. The Seven Well Waterfall was clearly appeared during the journey...

The Seven Wells Waterfall of Langkawi Island

Beautiful scenery from the Cable Car.
Do you notice the climbing degree of the cable car?! :)

Dramatic View from the Cable Car Station

We had a stop at the Middle Station for photography and continue to the Top Station.

The Middle Station of Langkawi Cable Car

The Middle Station. View from Top Station

The Top Station of Langkawi Cable Car

It was an Exciting ride for the total of 2.2km in 17 minutes!! Especially when the gondola approaching the Middle Station, the gondola was facing the Limestone Mountain! And it being pulled up almost Vertically with high speed to reached the station! Wah! Unforgettable experience! (You can refer from the photos above after we got into the gondola)

We walked to the 360 viewing platform on the left of the station after a small rest...the weather was extremely hot that day! Luckily there was a Ice-Cream stall at the platform.

The Viewing Platform

It was a double storey platform and I took my Ice-cream and enjoyed the Dramatic View of Langkawi Island on the 2nd level! That was a Great Enjoyment! (710 meter above sea level, reading from my GPS) Too bad the North platform was closed for maintenance during our visit....

The North Platform was under maintenance...

You can imagine the weather that day from the face of the poor little boy above. He was queuing for the Ice-cream for more than 30 minutes until a lady help him to get his ice-cream. He was being push out from the queue all the time! Very bad attitude of the tourists!

The Cable Car of Langkawi Island

Another view of the Top Station. I spotted the Lighthouse (N6 21.838 E99 40.996) of Perdana Quay, Langkawi Island.

The Lighthouse of Perdana Quay, Langkawi Island.

We spent an hour at the viewing platform and continue our journey to the Famous Sky Bridge (Hanging Bridge) of Langkawi Island!! Bye Mount Machinchang, and we will Never forget you!

The Langkawi Cable Car was awarded for ‘The Longest Free Span Single Rope Cable Car – Total In Length – 919.5 meter’ (One of the Steepest Gradient in the World – 42 degree.) and endorsed by The Malaysia Book Of Records. Beside that, it was also received the ‘Outstanding construction, architectural quality & technical proficiency of steel works’ from PRIX ACIER AWARDS 2005.

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Underwater World of Langkawi Island
*  Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island.
*  Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island
*  The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island  
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island 
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

Location map of Langkawi Cable Car Station

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The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island

The Lighthouse Restaurant (N6 16.887 E99 43.794) is located at the Tengah Beach which is about 200 meters from the intersection of Jalan Pantai Tengah and Jalan Pantai Cenang. This was where we took our dinner on the day 1 of Langkawi trip. (This restaurant was rated as one of the expensive restaurant in Langkawi).

The Lighthouse Restaurant of Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island.

It was a 2 storey Mediterranean-style building. The environment was perfect! Beside the beach and cozy decoration. You can choose to dine in the restaurant or on the beach. We definitely choose the beach...

The dining area of Lighthouse Restaurant

This was really a nice place...enjoying our dinner and accompany with the Beautiful sunset! I ordered a glass of Tiger Beer and continued to snap the surrounding with the sunset. We were waited there until the sky getting dark then only inform the waitress to serve our meal...:)

The beer and the spectacular sunset

I ordered a Ayam Percik with rice and my wife had a Ikan Kukus Halia with rice. Both are Chef Recommended (on the Menu). My daughter just had a bites for both dishes, because she already had some foods before dinner...

Ayam Percik

Ikan Kukus Halia

Rice and some appetizers

The Chicken was a bit spicy with the Special Recipe's Curry, and the fish was fresh! We enjoyed the dinner especially at the beach with the sunset!
The Damage : MYR110.00 for 2 main course and the Tiger Beer.

Well, it was a bit pricey! I believe the ambience charge higher than the food. Haha! 
Anyway, it was worth it because of the environment. :)

After about an hour hanging around, we gotta go to some others places and we have to say bye to the Restaurant and sunset!

Food rated : 4/5
Environment rated : 5/5

The sunset from The Lighthouse Restaurant

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Underwater World of Langkawi Island
*  Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island.
*  The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island.
*  Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island 
*  The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island  
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island 
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

The Lighthouse Restaurant - Langkawi

Lot 2161, Jalan Pantai Tengah Mukim Kedawang,

07000 Langkawi.

Tel : +604-9552586  Fax : +604-9552633

http;//www.thelighthouse-langkawi.com

Location map of The Lighthouse Restaurant at Langkawi Island

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Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island

After visited the Underwater World of Langkawi Island, we stop at the Cenang Beach (N6 16.884 E99 43.780) to enjoy sunset. There was a Restaurant named The Lighthouse Restaurant just situated beside, so we decided to have our dinner here.

I ordered a glass of Tiger Beer (MYR8.00) and started to snap the Beautiful sunset photos of the beach!

The Beautiful sunset accompany with Tiger Beer

7.18pm. The Red Ball still visible, in Red and Orange colour.

7.19pm. The sky remain small portion of Blue...

7.23pm. The sky was fully painted with colour!

7.25pm. The sky totally turned to Gold colour!

7.30pm. The colour started to changed from Gold to Pink, and the Blue came back...

7.32pm. It surrounding started to dark, and the Beautiful Sunset still continue to paint on the sky!

I was happy because be able to took the Breathtaking sunset scene from Cenang Beach of Langkawi Island. My beer was not as cold as it served because I was totally attracted my the sunset and forgot to drink...:)

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Underwater World of Langkawi Island
*  The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island.
*  The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island. 
*  Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island 
*  The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island  
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island 
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

Underwater World of Langkawi Island

Underwater World (N6 17.261 E99 43.736) is located along Jalan Pantai Cenang of Langkawi Island. It's about 600 meter from the intersection of Jalan Pantai Tengah & Jalan Pantai Cenang.

Underwater World of Langkawi Island

Entrance Fees : Adults MYR38.00 (Foreigner) MYR28.00 (Malaysian), Children 3-12 years old MYR28.00 (Foreigner) MYR18.00 (Malaysian), Senior citizens 50 years old and above : MYR22.00
Opening Hour : 
Mon - Thu : 9.30am - 6.30pm
Fri - Sun & Public Holiday : 9.30am - 8.30pm

"The new building (with 60,000 sq. ft built-up area) which displays Tropical Rainforest, Temperate and Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems, and a three-dimensional (3D) theatre with a 200-seating capacity is now open to the public. The new temperate section also includes an underwater penguin tunnel for visitors to view swimming penguins." Source from here.

This new building (Phase II) is officially opened by Malaysia Ex-PM : Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on 28th May 2005.

Once you enter the Aquarium, there were some Lizards display in the glass box...

Follow by the Tropical Rainforest

Flamingo

Then we entered the Penguins World.

African Penguins

Rockhopper Penguins

The Tunnel where you can see the penguins swim on top of you...

Southern Fur Seals was dreaming...

I believe all of these Penguins and Seals are because of Malaysia Ex-Prime Minister - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's Expedition to the Antarctica during February 2002.

The path lead us to the only cafe within the Underwater World, the Eden Cafe. You can have some drinks and have a rest here. The Marine section will be after this Cafe...

The Eden Cafe of Underwater World

The entrance of the Marine area

The Leopard Stingray swim Too fast that I can't get a clear photo...and the sharks were too calm...

There were many types of Sea Urchin around the marine section

The Giant Stingray continue to swim on top of us...

What is this ugly stuff? OH! It's a Stone Fish

Beautiful Mantis Prawn

I like the colour of the Jellyfish very much! :)

The Coral World was at the end of the Aquarium...

The last section of the Aquarium was the souvenir center...we didn't buy any of it.

The Souvenir Section

We spent almost 1 and the half hour in it and say bye-bye to The Underwater World of Langkawi. My daughter was very happy because of soooo many type of fishes!
When I stepped out of the building, Surprised! The ZON (Duty Free store) was just beside, YEAH! I gotta grab some beers! The price was Incredible!! MYR1.80 for Tiger per can! MYR2.70 for Budweiser per can! Oh! Grab one dozen and gonna enjoy it at the Hotel later...

Related post :
*  My Trip to Langkawi Island on September 2010
*  Grand Continental Hotel at Kuah, Langkawi Island
*  Sunset Of Cenang Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Lighthouse Restaurant at Tengah Beach (Pantai), Langkawi Island
*  The Langkawi Cable Car at Langkawi Island. 
*  The Famous Sky-Bridge of Mount Machinchang, Langkawi Island. 
*  Restoran Nasi Kandar Tomato at Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island 
*  The Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Eagles Feeding at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island 
*  The Fish Farm at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island
*  The Bat Cave at Kilim Geoforest Park of Langkawi Island  
*  Wonderland Seafood Store at Kuah Town, Langkawi Island 
*  Hole In The Wall Floating Restaurant at Kilim Geoforest Park, Langkawi Island 

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