Underwater World Langkawi is one of the island's best known attraction. This world's largest aquarium located at the southern end of Pantai Cenang (almost at the border of Pantai Tengah), beside the Zon of free shopping centre. The huge white-washed structure houses more than 200 different species of marine and freshwater fish including harbour seals, rockhopper penguins, sharks, giant rays and the enormous Amazonian arapaima – the biggest freshwater fish in the world. This enormous fish can be seen in a medium-sized tank in front of the entrance door.
Amazonian Arapaima
The complex is dicvided into three sections: Tropical Rainforest, Temperate and Sub-Antartic. The Sub-Antartic was probably the most popular section as there is the 'penguin-arium' houses for the cute little rockhopper and black-footed penguins that cause a crowd of people around the exhibit to get a good look of this cute creatures.
Furthermore, there's a giant walk-through six million litre underwater tunnel tank which houses an extensive number of fish including sharks, giant stingrays and green turtles.
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