Malaysia 🇲🇾

Malaysia was a place like my interests – Clean beaches, great boat rides, luxurious hotels, a wide variety of animals and friendly people. Yes it is part nature, part skyscrapers and part beaches.

The currency of Malaysia is the Malaysian ringgit. The Malaysian ringgit is like the American Dollar. 1/100 of a dollar is equal to a cent, and 1/100 of a ringgit is equal to a Malaysian sen.

Malaysia is very cheap, a dollar is worth 4 ringgits, (which doesn’t sound very cheap but…) souvenirs and meals can be found in sens only!

Our trip in Malaysia was around the state of Langkawi.

Langkawi

Langkawi is a group of many islands in the Andaman Sea. We had a great hotel there.

We went to a mangrove forest which was a forest in shallow waters. We saw a lot of wildlife there. It is a speed boat ride which takes you around the area of the mangrove. During the mangrove ride you can visit a fish farm at the near end of Langkawi. At the fish farm we saw Puff-fishes, crabs, lobsters, edible corals and eels. Another interesting part of the mangrove ride was the border sharing with Thailand. That means if you are willing to go for a longer boat journey, you could go to a place in the Gulf of Thailand where Malaysia ends and Thailand starts. But, that experience was expensive and will take half of our day, so we headed back to our hotel.

We went to Pasir Tengkorak Beach which was a nice place. We built sand castles and forts. We also saw a lot of sea shells, jelly-fishes, crabs and snails. But, because of the high tides, we couldn’t do a major ride called snorkeling which is just swimming with a mask on and watching at the coral reef through a body of water.

Next, we went to a place called Underwater World were all the native and other species of aquatic animals were found. These included, baby sharks, octopuses, squids, crabs, eels and fishes in glass cages like an aquarium. We were very interested in the native species of this area (which was of Thailand and Malaysia).

Another sanctuary we went to was the National Wildlife Sanctuary. There animals and birds were left in nature (except for poisonous animals). This place included snakes, eagles, macaws, owls, roosters, iguanas and crocodiles. You could also feed the animals through the bars of the cage. Close to the sanctuary was a bat cave, where you are not even aloud to whisper as the sleeping bats might be awaken. The bats in these caves can scratch skins, so we were very careful!

That was our experience in country number 2.