Langkawi Oct 2018

LANGKAWI Here We Come heading for the mountains one on foot and on cable,  the other by Grab hahahaha

Weather: We were lucky the 2nd day the weather stayed dry with a bit of rain on our descend.  Subsequent days we have on-off showers - was very heavy in the dead of one night with wind slashing the coconut palms and waves white heads visible and we were drenched in Mangrove bats cave boat to visit.

Gunung Mat Cincang GMCC-701 Metre, this is the purpose of this trip to climb to the summit of Mat CC and comparing with a Skycab ride to the summit on other days

The white -bat-shaped canopy of the sky bridge visible from here. Closer up picture from next day cable car ride further down from here.

View from MaliBase Resort in Cenang Beach seawards  - every day great sunset!!

Waterfall on way up/down MCC - Sandstone origin

After you have come this far you must attempt the summit right?

Clouds cleared revealing the islands in the sea

Skycab - cable cars dotted the distant slope

Unknown flowers

We did it ! At the exposed summit - area that can house 20 persons. It was  without any shelter or triangular height marker.  There are no railings too. I saw one chap tieing a hammock between two shrubs.

Wave breaker visible - you saw the same structure from the inbound plane too.  At first, I thought that was a bridge 

View  from the summit

Google Earth  ELEVATION plot of the GMCC ascend 

SKYCAB or cable car up the Mat Cincang.  Two waterfalls are visible on the way up. GPS on the cable ride is given below. (up/down). There are two circular observation decks resulting in a double peak on each half of the elevation plot.

 On the second day morning, Mr. Ottoman our guide greets us at the MaliBest Resort reception.

On the trail to the summit, we have to cross the red bridge straddling the waterfall 

Vertical waterfall - reminding me of the one in Hawaii

Oriental village from the base station 

 Picturesque view from the ride 

Skybridge leading to the bat-shaped canopy at one end. Single pylon supported this bridge. This structure was seen on the summit.

Mist-in-the-face feeling as the low clouds sweeping past you 

Its a long way down

This author enjoying the cool air

Cloud 9 feeling

You can save some stairs climbing by taking a short cut. We didn't.

It ain't frightening - walking on thin ice? No lah - pretty solid 

This is a lake - you can swim paddling and kayading 

Island Hopping: Beach, paddling lake, Eagle feeding, fish feeding,  bats caves, swimming monkey,  no cro cave, pregnant lady profile mountain

I think i can see the reclining pregnant lady profile here. Head on the right with tummy on the left

Abandoned floating surau and a kiln for making charcoal using mangrove trees

Stingray being fed

Swimming monkeys responded to food

Crocodile cave - is a legend - no cros were ever found there

Bats under the spotlight - rented $1 torch light shine on them. Outside it was raining heavily

Eagles - plenty of them waiting for food from the arriving boats - having a short-medium zoom I can only do the best I can firing burst.

Here they come

Touch down

Typical  limestone structure

G Raya - skip the 4K+ steps