Lake of the Pregnant Maiden Langkawi

After settling into our rooms it was time for our customary walk around the block to see what was close by apart from the Tomato restaurant. We decided to walk south and we ran into Chris. So it was the Penang crew all over again as we headed to the Zon. Langkawi is a duty free island and the Zon is a duty free shop. I didn't realise how cool this …

The reason this post is so long in the making, is because we just had the week of our lives in Langkawi- a holiday resort island just 3 hours north of Penang. I'm not sure how to document all our experiences over the past week but I’ll sure try and throw in some of our best snippets.

So when I said, 'just 3 hours north of Penang&# …

... than later in order to move on. So Sem and an amusing young Canadian couple joined me on a boating expedition to the Lake of the Pregnant Maiden and to the Sea Eagle feeding, despite the deluge all around us. The hills around the lake do ...

... out the middle man and got it for 40RM as it wasn't worth the advertised price of 65RM. Visited Dayang Bunting (Lake of the Pregnant Maiden) Legend has it that any 'childless maiden' that baths in the lake will conceive afterwards. Then we watched some ...

... third day I decided to do something constructive and caught a boat to a nearby island where I went for a swim in the Lake of the pregnant maiden. Childless women are said to conceive after swimming in the lake.... We also saw lots of eagles, which is ...

... water lake just 50 meters from the shore. The lake is called Tasik Dayang Bunting, "enchanted lake of the pregnant maiden", and is the largest lake in Langkawi. The outline of hill and rocky cliffs on one side of the lake resembles the shape of a ...

... tour, and the cablecar, with its views across the islands. Boat Trips: The main two are out to the Islands (including the Lake of the Pregnant Maiden, a freshwater lake) and round the mangroves, taking in the bat cave. You can go eagle feeding (a ...

... so soft, felt like standing on flour and the sea was completely blue and clear. Complete paradise..... We also went to the lake of the Pregnant Maiden where the locals believe if you bathe in it it solves any fertility problems.We hired a solar powered ...

... have chats with Dirk and Eileen, which was really, really lovely :-) We also took a half day trip on a speedboat to the lake of the pregnant maiden, where we were some of the first of the day to go swimming in the lake (which is supposed to promote ...

... the water, they were very graceful and elegant and accurate to boot. Next stop was Tasik Dayang Bunting or Lake of the Pregnant Maiden, so called as the island looks like a pregnant woman lying down but in the middle of the island is ...

... , swimming, watching eagles feed, bat caves... The tour also took us to Tasik Dayang Bunting, also known as the Lake of the Pregnant Maiden (the mountains look a little bit like a pregnant lady laying down?!), which is the 2nd largest island in the ...

... at all. It started raining mid way & that made the ride all the more fun. When we finally got down at the Lake of the Pregnant Maiden (our first stop), the Australian couple pointed out that Riya was a very brave girl. Actually the lady was somewhat ...