More Pangkor stories

Here are some stories and adventures of people traveling to Pangkor island. After reading what Pieter, Josephine, Meg and Ken, Tony and Michael wrote, you may want to add your own Pangkor adventure

Pieter from South Africa was working in Lumut. He enjoyed Lumut and Pangkor very much. Here's his story:

"I worked on the Jana Manjung power plant project, my family came to visit me few times in Lumut at the Harbor View apartments where i lived. This result in day trips to all the surrounding places like Pangkor's Pan Pacific Resort (officially called the Pangkor Island Beach Resort) and other quiet beaches, Damai Laut, Ipoh etc.

Now looking through your web site it feel as if I'm away from home, it was a experience i will never forget. The friendly people, good climate (rain and sunshine) markets (where my wife just went crazy) all the different kind of fruits and dishes we learned to eat.

The easy going un-hurried life of most of the people seem to rub off on to you, yes it sound unbelievable that there are still places like this in our crazy world but it exist at Lumut. The place crawl under your skin and like some locals say it got the "come back call" in it, I surely want to go back to visit Lumut (Malaysia) again.

Peter, thanks for this great site, you put lots of effort it to make it a success.

Pieter
South Africa

Josephine from Holland came to enjoy her last days of the summer holiday. It was her first visit to Malaysia and she loved it very much, especially Pangkor island. Here's what she has to say about Pangkor:

August 28, 2006 and I am back in Holland. It's a week ago since I was at Pangkor island with my son Michel, my daughter Soraya and her boyfriend Jacco. We have enjoyed Pangkor very much. I wanted to stay longer but everything that has a beginning has an end too. We will come back for sure. Pangkor seems a good place to spend the wet and cold winters of Holland. Maybe some day my husband and I come back to cover the winter.

We would love to come back next year as we enjoyed it very much. With our experiences we have something to look forward to. The four of us had a great meal at Nipah Bay Villa. The family was very nice to us. Netty, who is working for the family was very helpful and if we come next year this is the place we want to stay.

When looking at the photos I get almost homesick, it was so nice. I miss the island and hope to come around very soon.

Josephine
Netherlands

Tony is originally from the nearby town of Sitiawan but lives now in Kuala Lumpur. He knows Pangkor from years ago. Listen to what Tony has to say about Pangkor and it's beaches:

I have been to all these beaches:

• Teluk Muroh(before it was swallowed by the Naval Base)
• Pasir Panjang(opp MFM)
• Kampong Acheh(now part of Lumut Port)
• Teluk Batik Teluk Rubiah
• Teluk Senangin
• Pangkor Laut Emerald Bay
• Pasir Bogak(Sam Khoo huts)
• Turtle Bay
• Nipah Bay
• Coral Bay
• Golden Sands

Nipah Bay, Coral Bay, Teluk Senangin and Teluk Batik have some of the finest beaches in West Malaysia in terms of sand quality and only lose out to Perhentian or Redang islands on the clarity of the seawater. Pangkor beaches are best for family swimming as there are not much loose broken corals/rocks like those in the East Coast. However I am hugely disappointed with the state of the rubbish disposal situation on the Teluk Dalam side of the Island which is really BAD.

Also I think the tourism situation in Pangkor is deteriorating from the earlier days . The crowd is disappearing. Is that good or bad?

Anyway I think we can do something to repackage the island especially to foreign beach lovers which I think your Website is now doing. I believe to put Pangkor on the world trail of tropical havens we should fine tune the entertainment (eg beers, foot reflexology) scene (something which Malaysians are notoriously not effective for whatever reasons, promotion of local delicacies/products/ culture.

Can Pangkor.com do it? Good luck!

Tony
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Michael from Sweden spend early 2006 at Pangkor.

After we had been at wonderful Borneo, and visited the friendly Iban people, we went to Kuala Lumpur. It's a wonderful city but we wanted some days at a paradise beach.

So we went by taxi to Pangkor Island. Wow, what a memories I have about Pangkor now I am back in Sweden. It will last for a lifetime!

The food, the sunsets, all the wildlife! We saw wild monkeys and the beautiful hornbill birds which seemed to be everywhere!

The beaches is were good and clean. On our last night we were at the beach. The sand was sparkling and glittering, I don't know what it whas, but i think it was some kind of very small sea animal that had been swept up on the beach.

The beaches are great for swimming ,but be very careful, there can be nasty jellyfish. I was burned badly. Even look were you put your foots in the water, there is some sticky creeps on the bottom. But overall, this is a truly paradise island and I am I will be back!

Thanks
Michael
Sweden

Meg and Ken from Japan where chilling out in Pangkor early 2006. They too enjoyed the island and recommend some good places to eat:

During our stay, we enjoyed local food very much and we have never eaten at the restaurant in our hotel! I am not sure if you are interested in, but we recommend some restaurants which are very good and cheep.

They are "Guan Guan restaurant" in the Pangkor town close to the Maybank, and "TJ restaurant" in Nipah Bay. Guan Guan is a Chinese restaurant and sea-food is excellent. We ate fried squid, steamed prawn, noodle, and soup and all we love so much!

TJ is a sea-food restaurant, you can choose from "today's catch" in front of the restaurant ,there are many kind of fish, squid, prawn, stingray, etc on the ice and chef cooks them in front of you. But if you go there a little bit late, nothing left!

If you have a chance to eat on the island , you will love them.

I have never failed to choose those food in any country I have traveled. In your website , Indian tea (chai) looks amazing! We are looking forward that your web site will update.

Thanks

Meg and Ken
Japan

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