A foreigner living in Langkawi has gathered Langkawi's best holiday activities on a new website for visitors to get detailed information and see great photos. In Asia there are great tour operators and also many copycats that do not deliver the same quality and service. Langkawi-Insider.com helps you find the best available and offers a personalized booking service.

Langkawi visitors now have easy access to one of Asia's most beautiful groups of unspoiled tropical islands with white sand beaches, crystal aquamarine water and kilometers of coral teeming with parrot fish and thousands of colorful underwater creatures. The Tarutao National park in Thailand includes the fabled islands of Ko Lipe and Ko Adang.

Nestled at the foothills of the majestic Gunung Raya, resides one of the most refreshing and scenic golf resorts in Langkawi.
Sprawled over 300 acres of former rubber plantation land, Gunung Raya Golf Resort boasts an intriguing international-standard golf course designed by renowned American golf architect Max Wexler. Within its lush landscapes, you'll encounter beautiful rolling greens, panoramic tees, and impeccable fairways, magnificently contoured with sand traps and water hazards. Hence, Gunung Raya Golf Resort is an exhilarating golfing venue that will whet any avid golfer's appetite!

On the Malaysian island of Langkawi, there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever mine. Early one morning I set out with a naturalist, Irshad Mobarak, to replant some of the local flora.
We skimmed up the Kilim river by boat, heading deep into the rainforest, with limestone cliffs towering above, and a riot of green vegetation reaching down to the banks.
At a bend in the river Irshad stopped the boat and gathered up a clutch of mangrove stems, shiny and pointed, like small spears. We found a clearing on the opposite bank, and inserted the stems into the mud, where, Irshad assured me, their seeds would take root with amazing speed. "So how does it feel," he asked, "starting your own swamp?"

Langkawi is a duty-free shopping haven offering an attractive range of local and imported goods for those with a yen for shopping. Most of the island's shopping establishments can be found in and around Kuah.
A good place to start one's shopping spree is the modern Langkawi Fair Shopping Mall, consisting of 100 retail lots housed in a 2-storey building. Its anchor tenant, the Samudra Duty Free Department Store, stocks a wide selection of items such as perfumes and fragrances, cosmetics, leather wear, sports gear, ladies' accessories, confectionery, liquor and cigarettes. The other shopping outlets to check out in Kuah is the Langkawi Duty Free (M) Sdn. Bhd and the Saga Shopping Centre. The former sells a range of duty free items and the latter a variety of imported kitchenware and household appliances,clothing, luggage, confectionery and assorted goods.

What is air trekking? To date (end of 2001), France is the leading European country promoting and organising Air Trekking in its vast forest areas as a popular activity, replacing Canyoning and Bungee Jumping as the hottest new outdoor sports- simply, because it's in the nature trend and suitable for all ages.
According to 'Der Spiegel' 35/2000 - a leading German news magazine - Air Trekking has attracted already several thousand participants during the year 2000 summer alone.
While in Europe the emphasis on Air Trekking purel is embedded in its adventure aspects, the idea for Langkawi is additionally founded on its environmental and ecological opportunities, as an Air Trekking System enables tourists, scientists, professional and amateur photographers and film teams to discover the rainforest canopy world by day and night from a completely new perspective.