MALAYSIA | UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI BLOG REVIEW ~ WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN VISITING

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 in all Langkawi’s hottest vacationer spots, the Underwater World Langkawi.

KID A AND BG AT PANTAI CENANG BEACH

Positioned on the southern finish of Pantai Cenang or Cenang Seashore, it will probably simply be accessed by reserving Seize automobiles, passing taxis, or just by strolling—that’s when you’re staying alongside the Pantai Cenang space of Langkawi like us. So, stroll we did.

BOOKING TICKETS

UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI FACADE DURING EVENINGS

Underwater World Langkawi tickets may be purchased straight from their foyer or on-line through reserving apps.

We had ours through 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

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 just a few sectors, however backtracking is allowed, so no downside there.

AFRICAN BLACK-FOOTED PENGUINS AT THE UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI

The Temperate Part options round sixty African black-footed penguins, which you’ll see above and under 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!

UWL’S EIGHT-METER AQUARIUM TUNNEL

THE HYPER-ACTIVE SOUTH AMERICAN SEAL

In addition they have a separate enclosure for his or her South American fur seal, this animal is overwhelmingly big and you may actually really feel its energy underwater when considered up shut.

SUB-ANTARCTIC SECTION

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 just like their black-footed counterparts, nevertheless, 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

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 honest, 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 may develop to greater than eight toes. There are additionally wallago catfish and freshwater stingrays.

RIVER ECOSYSTEM

CHINESE WATER DRAGON

Simply throughout is the River Ecosystem space, a collection 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 similar to Chinese language water dragons, Indonesian blue-tongued skink, and a bunch of snakes.

TROPICAL RAINFOREST

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.

PINK FLAMINGOS AT UNDERWATER WORLD LANGKAWI

Proper in the midst of the rainforest is an enormous tank dwelling to gigantic strange-looking fishes that appears straight out of Jurassic Park—knifefishes, large gouramies, and arowanas.

HUGE JURASSIC-LOOKING FISHES AT UWL

TOUR BREAK

THE REQUISITE TOURIST SHOT FOR KID A

The rainforest exits into the penguin space, which now we have 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

A VIEW OF THE HEXAGONAL TANK FROM THE TUNNEL TUNK

The biggest aquarium in Underwater World Langkawi is their Hexagonal Tank. It’s 70,000 liters massive and is dwelling to black tip sharks, white tip sharks, big manta rays, turtles, Pakistani butterflyfish, Madras snapper, and an astoundingly massive 600-kilogram groper fish.

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

A BREATHER AT THE KOI POND

After that intense expertise, we had been in a position to breathe out on the Koi Pond space—a small open-aired part full of tropical vegetation, a pretend waterfall, and a pond. Alongside the water swims quite a few Japanese native carps popularly referred to 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

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 aren’t any much less attention-grabbing.

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

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’ll find these tax-free outlets anyplace. To be honest, even when it’s a vacationer entice, The Zon is likely one of the extra in depth responsibility free shops round Langkawi.

MCDONALD’S LANGKAWI

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 as well!

There’s additionally a Starbucks inside the constructing, however we weren’t in a position to 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

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