Pangkor Island

Pangkor Island is one of the most early developed island tourist destination in Malaysia. It has been very famous among Malaysians but I never have the chance to visit it until Susan offered to bring me, Amy and Shianlin around Pangkor Island.

Susan’s hometown is in Setiawan, which is just a few kilometers away from the Lumut jetty, so she’s been to Pangkor a few times before. Furthermore she offered us to stay at her house so that we can have some good rest from tiring drive before going off to Pangkor. A tour guide in Pangkor and a free place to stay before and after our Pangkor trip, I cannot find a reason to say no to Susan’s great offer.

We departed from Lumut jetty to Pangkor. Lumut is the navy army base for Malaysia, there were some navy vessels along the coastline to erm... scare away pirates.

Pangkor is a combination of a fishing village and tourist destination, there are no major roads in Pangkor so the best way to get around Pangkor is to rent a motorcycle. Four of us rented two motorcycles and went straight away to our hotel.

My rented motorcycle

After checking into the hotel, we straight away went for a snorkeling trip because we don’t want to waste time taking bath and pang sai in the hotel.

Our hotel at night

To be honest, the snorkeling trip sucks.

The Pangkor water was already polluted by the vast amount of fishing activities and tourists. When we reached a small island just off the main Pangkor Island, we were promised by the guide that there will be a lot of nice fishes to see during the snorkeling trip. But what I can see during the snorkeling trip was polluted water, TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT.

Check out the brown color water

However, some fishes were still visible through the water, the fishes were not as colorful as seen in the Pangkor travel brochures but we were glad to be able to see some living things inside the polluted water. I was amazed at how those fishes able to survive in the polluted seawater.

While I was snorkeling around the polluted water trying to find something nice to see, something more amazing happened. I saw my university mates coming on a boat.

William - a.k.a. Setiawan Dai Kor

Lu Eer a.k.a. Mentakab Dai Kar Je

Win Ney a.k.a. Kelantan Dai Tar Je and Shianlin a.k.a. Terengganu Dai Kar Je

Me and Carol a.k.a. Tampin Dai Kar Je

What a small world.

Since we cannot see anything nice because of the polluted water, all of us decided to take some photos as a proof of how small the world is.

The snorkeling trip was a disappointment, but some other things in Pangkor managed to make us smile a bit.

Sunset,

And good food.

The seafood there weren’t as expensive as other tourists’ spot and it’s delicious.

Pangkor Island is still one of the famous tourists’ destinations in Malaysia, but the pollution level there scared most of the tourists away, for example, ME. So here’s another request from me to the government of Malaysia: Do something before it’s too late.