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cecil on February 26th, 2010

If you are visiting Malaysia, one of the top places to go in Malaysia should include the Langkawi Island in northern Peninsular Malaysia. What can you see in Langkawi? Other than beaches or Perdana Gelleria, the next hot spot to go must be this crocodile farm. In fact there are not much things you can see in Langkawi but this farm surely worth a visit. Langkawi Crocodile Farm or Taman Buaya Langkawi in Malay is a 20-Acre-Land featuring over 1000’s of crocodiles in various species and also alligators, in a few separated man-made ponds.

I went there last year on my company trip to Langkawi. It has been 10 years since my last time there and there are still reasons to revisit this island.

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After paying RM8 entrance fees, visitors could explore the garden the way you like freely. The main pond is the biggest with pedestrian bridge built over it.

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Visitors could walk slowly on this bridge overlooking many crocodiles doing all sorts of activities resembling their real lives.

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The environment within this 2o acre compound is very nice, comfortable, clean with lush greenery.

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Wow, look at that! What’s the species of these crawling crocodile?

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Further strolling down the walking path, we came to the show pond. No seating provided, visitors have to stand around the stage to watch the ‘man vs crocodile’ live performances.

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There are 2 ‘old’ and tamed but big crocodiles in 2 small ponds. First of them came out of water to start the show…

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Why is he opening his big jaw with sharp teeth? Any prey around? The audience?

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Oops! He actually just woke up and waiting his teeth to be brushed! :)

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Simple action. The crocodile went back into the pond to sleep again after that. Lazy creature…

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Now. The highlight of the day came. The second giant crocodile is coming!

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Anaconda?

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Water being sprayed onto her rapidly as she was crawling up. A hot tempered one I guess… :)

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Dang dang…. dang dang… dang dang…..dang dang….

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Hi! How are you? Stay your head up will you?

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Don’t move babe! I’m on your back…

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Freeze!

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Oh no! She is opening her mouth! Run! Guy Run!

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Don’t worry! Superman is here…

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Err… let me test whether her teeth or my arm is stronger…

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It’s more than 4m in length! Ladies and gentlemen, the show is over.

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We continued to walk through the bridge over pond.

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Wondering what are they doing? Sleeping? Chatting? Playing? Dying?

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It suddenly rained. Look at them! They are alive! They definitely love rains!

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We came to another pond. Oh no! These crocodiles are not friendly at all! They are looking for preys! They are mouth watering…

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Oh I see. This is the feeding pond where crocodiles who are starving will crawle to here to look for real food, fresh meat. Only difference is there are served by trainers.

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Bye bye! Food’s finished! Not full enough? Try to be stronger next time!

Other than that, visitors could also find a restaurant and a souvenirs shop inside the Langkawi Crocodile Farm. For RM8 per entry, you can spend your time there from 9am to 6pm. We stayed there for one and 1 half hour and that should be enough unless you are having lunch there or wandering in the souvenir shop. “Is it worth to go?” Should pay a visit if you haven’t been there before. “Is this post worth to read?” Must subscribe to my Feed via RSS or email if you haven’t done so! :)Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog

The above photos were captured with Panasonic Lumix FZ28

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Happy Lunar New Year of Tiger again! Sorry if you think these are too much but I just couldn’t resist myself from posting more photos of this new year celebration. If  you happened to be here in Malaysia as a visitor, you must have seen all these decorations in Kuala Lumpur during this festive season. If you are not, you might still have seen these in the TV or over the internet as part of  the decorations around the world where there are Chinese to celebrate. If you haven’t seen anything like these this year, here are some beautiful decorations for this lunar new year celebration in Kuala Lumpur Pavilion shopping mall. Be the one to celebrate with us during this festival!

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Being the latest addition of megamall in KL, Pavilion has dumped in plenty of money to decorate its premise during lunar New Year of Tiger.

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I just couldn’t choose the best to post it here, so I posted them all! These shots are about the hanging lantern decoration at the main entrance.

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Also this….

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.. and this… :)

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This is the last photo. Enough?

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You should have seen this crystal bowl fountain display at day. This is how this Feng Shui bowl looks at night with colourful lighting…

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It changed to green colour after a while…

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… and now is blue colour…

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… and purple colour also…

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Crystal bowl fountain? Yes. It’s really a fountain… :)

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These bowls is situated in the middle of the main entrance of Pavilion. You can also see those hanging lanterns behind it.

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What a roaring New Year of Tiger!!

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All these decorations have made me think of my trip to South Yangtze China.

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Red lanterns for prosperity in Chinese belief.

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Pavilion has now turned into Xin Tian Di of shanghai!

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Am I in China?

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Plum blossom or Mei Hua (梅花) is the national flower of China and we can see them in Pavilion KL now!

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Before I leave, just another 2 shots on red lantern. Wishing you good fortune and prosperous this year!

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I like the mood of this  photo. :)

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Last but not least, booths in conjunction with Lunar New Year are set up at the basement lobby. Visitors could shop for some Chinese New Year souvenirs.

That’s all again folks! Happy Chinese New Year. Another short post as I’m still busy celebrating this roaring new year for the 5th day now. Cheers! If you want update travel stories from me, feel free to subscribe Travel Feeder’s feed via RSS or Email,  NOW! :) - Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog

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cecil on January 25th, 2010

Lunar calendar Chinese New Year which falls on the Valentine’s Day of 14th February this year 2010, is around the corner. It also marks the start of Tiger year in Lunar calendar. Many believe that the Year of Tiger will be to harsh for marriage so they rushed into marriage before the end of the year of Ox. Anyway, another 3 weeks there would be the new year I celebrate. Commercial areas like shopping mall and restaurants have started to put up decorations to welcome the festival and CNY promotion is running everywhere. If you want to see all these decorations mostly in red colour (Red indicates Prosperous among Chinese) and experience all the chinese new year celebration, come to Malaysia now or before 28th February 2010!

Here are some of the images around a shopping mall in town.

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CNY stages are set up in all major shopping malls in Malaysia.

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Chinese acrobatics are usually performed during this festive season… wooo, be careful sweet heart… :)

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One way to celebrate Chinese New Year: To eat or treat friend and relatives with season-special cookies.

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Some may buy these Ngar Ku (Arrowhead) or Chinese potatoes home, slice them into thin pieces, fry them into Ngarku crisps! You must try this!

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But most importantly, we will stock cartons of beers or beverages for celebration till midnight for sure. :)

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Sometimes, we use yellow lanterns also since ‘yellow’ in chinese language sounds like ‘wealth’ and we all hope for more income this coming year!

However, don’t expect to see fire crackers during this festive season as they are already banned by our government as part of the preventive measure to control fire accidents and injuries. Happy Chinese New Year to whoever celebrates! – Travel Feeder

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cecil on December 11th, 2009

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