Pangkor Island's Photo Gallery

Tortoise Bay

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Tortoise Bay, Pangkor is located beside of Nipah Bay. You can walk from Nipah Bay or rent a car, motorbike or taxi anywhere from Pangkor Island.

Play at The Beach

2007-07-25T03:56:00.001-07:00

This photo taken while my kids playing at Nipah Bay Beach, Pangkor Island.

Nipah Bay Gift Shop

2007-07-24T10:01:00.000-07:00

Along the road you of Nipah Bay (Teluk Nipah) can find a lot of gift shops that offer variety of gift, souvenir and t-shirt with reasonable price. If you buy more you can bargain with the owner.

Pangkor's Fishing Village

2007-07-24T09:29:00.000-07:00

This is one of the most wonderful scenery when you take ferry from Lumut - Pangkor Island. You can see fishing boat and fisherman actities along the journey.

Dinner at Nipah Bay Villa

2007-07-24T09:02:00.000-07:00

Dinner and my wife's birthday celebrating at Nipah Bay Villa challet. Thanks for En Sabtu for the romantic dinner and delicious meal. This chalet is most recommended to all.

Lumut Craft & Dried Seafood Centre

2007-07-24T08:08:00.000-07:00

Lumut, the port to Pangkor Island has many craft centre and dried seafood stall. You can find local maade handcraft from shell and any other seafood food with reasonable price. As maingate to Pangkor Island, Lumut also offer variety of hotel to stay.

Nipah Bay - Teluk Nipah

2007-07-24T07:58:00.000-07:00

Further down the road, is the increasingly popular Teluk Nipah. Accommodation here caters much to the middle to lower-ranged budgets and can be a little dissapointing to those who have something of a romantic notion of island getaway in mind. Chalets, restaurants and motels line the streets and even the small alleyways and during the peak seasons, it's jam-packed with tourists. The main road lies between the beach and the motels and chalets so don't expect to get any rooms on the beach itself.

Sunset at Nipah Bay

2007-07-20T13:21:00.000-07:00

All of the photos realize me that the creation of God is always perfect. All of photos taken from Nipah Bay, Pangkor and you can see Giam Island from there.

Getting to Pangkor Island

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(1) To Lumut Town

BY ROAD
Lumut and Pangkor are accessible by various highways either from Penang, lpoh or Kuala Lumpur.

BY BUS/COACH
Regular Bus/Coach Services are easily available from Pudu Raya in Kuala Lumpur; Medan Kidd, lpoh and Pengkalan Sultan Abdul Halim (Jetty) in Butterworth.

BY TAXI
Taxi services are also easily available to lpoh from the major towns and cities in Peninsular Malaysia where you can board local buses or taxis to Lumut Town.

BY AIR
Pangkor and Lumut are accessible by air from Kuala Lumpur with the construction of a modern air strip on Pulau Pangkor.

(2)To Pangkor Island

Lumut town offers regular ferry services to Pangkor Island at just RM4.00 per person. Once on Pangkor, you can take a bus, taxi or even hire a motorbike to reach your favourite destination.

Contact Information:

Pangkor Lumut Ekspres Feri Sdn. Bhd.
83, Batu 1/2, Jalan Lumut,
32000 Sitiawan. Perak

Telephone: 605-6914102, 605-6916753, Fax: 605-6910416
Contact Person: Mr. Wong Yew Ping (Manager)
E-mail: plefsb@hotmail.com

Description: Passengers Ferry Services, Ferry Chartered Services, Sunset & Sunrise Cruise, Leisure Cruise and Island Tour.

Boating and Snorkelling at Giam Island

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Crazy Boat Trip Experience

Giam Island can be seen from Teluk Nipah Beach. From the beach, you can also take a short boat ride to the nearby islands of Pulau Giam and Pulau Mentaggor and if you're really for some exercise, you can rent kayaks for a paddle out to these islands.

Pasir Bogak Beach

2007-07-19T15:03:00.000-07:00

Pasir Bogak video from my Digicam

This is the most popular seaside resort of Pangkor. It has been described as the biggest swimming pool in the world. The water is shallow and crystal clear, offering endless hours of fun and frolic in the sunkissed sea along the vast coral reef. It is accessible by road from Pangkor Town. The 2 km crescent shaped beach offers a host of facilities such as sailing, fishing, snorkelling and wind surfing (available at Sea View and Beach Hotels) making Pasir Bogak Beach a more popular recreation spot for the local population.

Dalam Bay - Teluk Dalam

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Teluk Dalam Resort is your paradise by the sea. The delightful, rustic ambience here is made more exquisite by the chalets, bungalows and villas.

These feature kampung - styled architecture, and are furnished and equipped in a manner to help make for your total comfort and pleasure. Teluk Dalam Resort has always been a favourite among the locals and foreign visitors alike.

Dutch Fort - Kota Belanda

2007-07-19T13:36:00.000-07:00

At Teluk Gudang lies the 300-year-old stone foundations of a Dutch Fort built in 1670. It was one of the Dutch strongholds against pirates and local Malays. The fort was abandoned after it was attacked by a local warrior, Panglima Kulub, and his followers. Muzium Negara undertook its reconstruction in 1973. Today, only the stone foundations and carvings on a large rock left by the soldiers remain.

Stayed at Nipah Bay Villa

2007-07-19T13:29:00.000-07:00

The Nipah Bay Villa is a nice hotel at Teluk Nipah. The owner, Mr. and Mrs. Sabtu or Pakcik Mat are a lovely couple who are running a business here for more the 16 years now. They have seen Teluk Nipah seen developing into the nice tourist area as it is now.

Map of Pangkor Island

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Pangkor Island Location Map

Introduction

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Pulau Pangkor is an island off the coast of Perak in north-west peninsular Malaysia, reached by ferry from Lumut (a small coastal town that links to Ipoh, or from Sitiawan). It has a land area of only 8 square kilometers, and a population of approximately 25,000 islanders. It is heavily promoted as a low-key tourist destination by the Malaysia government, but fishing and fish products remain major industries.

Historically, Pangkor was a refuge for local fishermen, merchants and pirates. In the 17th century, the Dutch built a fort in an effort to control the Perak tin trade. In 1874, it was the location of a historic treaty between a contender to the Perak throne and the British government (The Pangkor Treaty), which began the British colonial domination of the Malay Peninsula.

Pangkor is famous for its fine beaches and a mix of low budget to 5 star accommodations. Teluk Nipah and Coral Bay on the north west of the Island is extremely popular with backpackers from Europe.

Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Indonesia, Thailand and to a lesser extent the West Coast of Malaysia in December 2004, there has been less local tourists visiting Pangkor.