Le Tour De Langkawi

The Tour de Langkawi is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Malaysia, and named after Langkawi. Le Tour De Langkawi is the main attraction for the tourists even the population itself love it. It is the professional bicycle race held annualy in the month of March.

The race was first organized in 1996 and has been held annually since its first edition in 1996. As the Tour gained prominence and popularity the race was lengthened and its reach began to extend around the globe. The race usually consist of 10 day-long segment (stages) over 10 days. While the route changes each year, Genting Highlands destination always included. The race is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race as part of the UCI Asia Tour calendar.


Le Tour De Langkawi 2013 race

Simply Scrumptious!

Langkawi is the exact place for people to fulfill their desire to eat seafood. As Langkawi is the place where their marine catch is the freshest among all. Other than that it is the main attraction for all the tourists from all over the countries to loaded their stomach with these delicious scrumptious dishes and plus, the price of these dishes is reasonable and affordable so that everyone can have a taste of these wonderful taste dishes.

The Legendary Of Mahsuri

Mahsuri’s Tomb is the crypt of the legendary Princess Mahsuri. Located in the village of Mawat, 12km from Kuah, it is also known as Makam Mahsuri. Most of the island’s natural attractions have fables attached in true Malay style and Mahsuri’s Tomb is probably its most famous legend.

Many locals of Langkawi believe the legend to be true, citing the decades of failed crops that followed Mahsuri's death. Langkawi was also attacked by Siam numerous times, the last invasion taking place in 1821. The field which was torched by the farmers is still known as Beras Terbakar or "burnt rice". It is only at the end of the 20th century, after the seven generations have supposedly come to pass, that Langkawi began to prosper as a tourist destination. The descendants of Mahsuri continue to live in Phuket, Thailand, and have on occasion returned to Langkawi to visit her tomb. Among them was Sirintra Yayee (ศิรินทรา ยายี), also known as Wan Aishah Wan Nawawi, who came into the spotlight during her visit to Kedah in 2000.



Wonders of Langkawi Underwater World

 

 

 

 

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.  

 

 

 

 

 



Island of the Pregnant Mermaid (Pulau Dayang Bunting)

Also known as the island of the Pregnant Mermaid, and Tasik Dayang Bunting or the lake of the Pregnant Maiden, are the largest island and lake in Langkawi, Kedah. The attractions of the island would be the Gua Langsir or the Cave of the Banshee is a limestone formation on a hillock, located on the western coast of the island. To reach this cave, tourists require considerable mountaineering skills as it is not easy to reach this. Also there are mangrove swamplands, variety of birds on the island and rainforests.

Gua Langsir or Cave OF the Banshee