Langkawi: Crocodile Farm and Galeria Perdana

The Langkawi Crocodile Farm is famous for its huge number of crocodiles, there are more than 3,000 different species of crocodiles inside the farm. Its various performances also attracted thousands of visitors during holidays. Sounds interesting right?

However, the day I went there was not holiday and it was near to the farm’s closing time, so I missed out some performances such as the boxing match between crocodile and man and the daredevil show where a man sleep on top of an adult crocodile or put his head into the crocodile’s mouth.

A cacat crocodile

Despite missing all the shows, the crocodile farm still has something that can attract me.

You can always have your nail trimmed by poking the crocodiles

First of all, the time I went there the farm had only a few visitors, so I can see the crocodile close up without having to squeeze into the large crowd. When I said close up, it was really very close, it was only a fence away from me and the crocodile. You can actually poke at the crocodile if you feel like losing one finger.

Some not so professional employees poking at the crocodiles at work

Secondly, I managed to see some of the “shows” near to the farm’s closing time. There was a cleaner who cleaned up one of the crocodile ponds. Looked innocent but when I looked around there were actually 3 adult crocodiles inside the pond. What a challenging job. I do audit OT until 3am also don't want to go wash that freakin' pond.

A very professional employee

After cleaning up the pond, the cleaner then walked to one of the crocodiles, sat down on its tail and started smoking. Maybe he thinks that smoking near crocodile got more “feel”.

You come down lah, I treat you 1 cigarette

Before the crocodile farm was closed, I managed to video the employees of the farm feeding the crocodiles dinner.

Here’s the video.

I really cannot imagine what will happen when someone falls inside the crocodile pond.

Nice ceiling

Besides the crocodile farm, I also went to an interesting place called the Galeria Perdana.

Galeria Perdana is a place where Tun Mahathir keeps all the gifts and souvenir he received from macam-macam people or corporations or countries during his 22 years as the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

At first I thought that the place will be filled with numerous simple gifts and souvenirs such as medals or pen holders like we used to have during our school times. But when I entered the building, I was kind of amazed.

I don't know the name of the collections inside so I just name the pictures below cin-cai-ly.

A si pek big jade

3D pewter horses painting

Erm... a glass with many faces on it?

There were no stupid cheap medals or pen holders, everything inside there were absolutely top-class gifts or souvenirs. All the gifts and souvenirs were received from countries he visited or from famous people such as Anwar, erm sorry, Bill Clinton.

Keris clock with some precious stone on it

Basically you can find many nice things inside there. There were so many things inside, if you want to read all the descriptions of the gifts you’ll probably have to spend a million years inside there. I don’t have enough time so I just browsed through all the items, yet I had to spend almost 2 hours just to browse through.

Glass fish

As I just cin-cai browsed through the items, I am not able to tell you which items were from which countries or persons, I only know that all the things inside there were expensive.

Small elephants

Most of the items there were artistic gifts and souvenirs, they were beautiful, but were kind of useless. However, when I entered into another building of Galeria Perdana, my perception of gifts and souvenirs being useless things changed entirely.

A Mitsubishi

Lincoln, very rare in Malaysia

BMW, and our Super Little Kancil (SLK) behind me

A square van like those used by pasar malam vendors

Antique car with big rims, don't play play

Some damn rich countries or corporations or people gave the lucky dude cars. Not one, but many of them. There were at least more than 15 cars inside there.

And some kedekut people gave him toy cars...

Besides, normal cars, he also got one very special car.

A multi-million dollars F1 car.

Wtf, I don’t understand why they gave an F1 car to an old man like Tun Mahathir, as if Tun Mahathir will take it out to the street to race it against those Protons fitted with ridiculously large spoilers at the back.

Look how people were willing to spend just to make the Prime Minister of Malaysia happy, no wonder got so many people die die also want to become Prime Minister lah.