Kapas Island: The Snorkeling Paradise

Aerial picture of Kapas Island


It has been a long time since I went to this beautiful island so I decided to tell you all about this island.
Kapas Island located about 5 kilometers from the mainland and can be reach in 15 minutes from the Marang village. The island has tropical jungle, white sand beaches and beautiful coral reefs.

It holds the name "diving and snorkeling paradise"

How To Get There
You can go there from the Marang jetty. The boat ride will take you about 15 minutes. You can purchase the boat ticket from the available counter booths at the jetty. Price is around RM30 (return ticket). You also can go there by ferry but it will took you longer time. 

Accommodation

This island provide many reasonable price chalet and resort which you can choose a room with or without air cond. one of the most interesting name is MAKCIK GEMUK BEACH RESORT. There you can get a room with only RM30 BUT it has no air cond AND outside bathroom. :P

Mak Cik Gemuk Beach Resort

If you want to be more andventerous, you can go camping at Harmony Camp Site where you must pay only Rm10 for the camp site. Next time I go to this island, I definitely will try this camp site. 

Harmony Camp site


Snorkelling

The main attraction in Pulau Kapas is its beautiful coral reefs. so you have to do snorkelling to enjoy them and you can also find variety of colorful fishes in the crystal clear water. Usually the resort will provide the snorkelling package with lower price or you can purchase snorkelling packages from a booth at the jetty at only RM25 inclusive of boats, snorkelling gears and guide. 

Coral Reef and Nemo at Pulau Kapas

That is all I want to story about Kapas Island. The jetty is actually quite near from my place and if you guys want to go here, you can stay at my home ;) 

outside source:
1. http://chaletandresortpulaukapas.blogspot.com/2012/06/mak-cik-gemuk-beach-resort.html#.U0SgkvmSySo
2.http://chaletandresortpulaukapas.blogspot.com/2013/05/harmony-camp-site.html#.U0Sgr_mSySo
3.http://yatie08.blogspot.com/2013/06/percutian-di-pulau-kapas.html
4.http://xeon204.blogspot.com/2013/09/travel-half-day-trip-snorkelling-pulau.html

Tips to backpacking

Assalamualaikum and hi guys! How are you? Have you ever backpacking? oops, before i proceed, i would like to brief a little bit about backpacking. Backpacking is the international travelling that required low-cost. People that have a backpacking will only stay at cheap restrooms and their only transports are only public transport such as public bas or train. Their duration of backpacking also required a longer time compared to conventional travelling. As for me, i have experienced backpacking once. I went for backpacking with my friends to Indonesia. I really found that backpacking is very interesting and can save a lot of money. InsyaAllah i want to backpacking to the other country. So, in this entry, i would like to share some tips for backpacking.


1. When you go for backpacking, you need to plan you journey first. For instance, you need to plan your trip early as it will save a lot of cost. Furthermore, you also need to survey the price of the flight and also the accomodation because sometimes they will make an offer. When i went for backpacking before, i make a survey three months before the planning trip. I managed to get low flight fare and very cheap accomodation during my whole trip. Sometimes, to get the lowest price, you need o make a survey one year before. when i went for conventional travel with my whole family, usually we will make a booking one year before. People usually hesitated to booking hotel or flight early, but don't as when you make booking at website like booking.com or agoda.com, they will provide free cancellation.

www.booking.com- click this link to go to booking. com
www.agoda.com- click this link to go to agora.com website

2. Language. When you go for backpacking at a country which their language is not sound like English and their local people do not know English, you have to learn a little bit about their language. Usually people will used tour guide to assist them at them at the country like Japan, Korean an China. But as you have backpacking, you will not going to use tour guide. So, the things that you have to bring is dictionary or just using your smartphone.

3. Next, you need to make a survey about the country that you will go. You need to make a survey about interesting place, famous food, tourism center or nearest police station.This thing is very important as it will make your backing smoother.

4. Make sure your passport is valid. Do not forget that your passport only valid six months before the actual expiry date. I usually saw people at the airport don't checked their passport first. As a result, they have to cancel or postponed their trip. so, please make sure that this thing will not happen to you.

Sample of passport

With that, thank you!happy backpacking.