While I find time to write about them, here's our first destination in Langkawi (and the most expensive, if you consider value for money...it cost RM5 per person and there's not much inside :s )
The destination I'm talking about is Mahsuri's tomb. I wanted to visit it, because we had heard the legend of how she was wrongly accused of adultery and executed, and how her blood was white when it flowed out of her body, showing that she was innocent (that's the gist of the legend; I'm too lazy to write more :P )
The entrance to Kota Mahsuri
They had some decorative/cultural stuff on the way in, such as this one:
This is called caklempong, whatever that is...
Mahsuri's tomb
A cotton tree! (beside the tomb) First time I've seen one...
This smacked onto the ground just as I stepped away. It might have hit my head if I hadn't moved when I did. :s Anyway, it looks really fluffy, doesn't it? :D
Then they had this Kampung Kedah...
...and Pandak Mayah(Mahsuri's father)'s house.
Somehow I doubt that this was really where the houses were...because nearby there were also a few houses, supposedly of the other people in the legend. I think the houses were re-created...but why?? What's the point? And how accurate would the re-creation be?
There was a well, with some people using the water from it to wash they faces, that's supposedly good for you, I guess. (I didn't try to find out more :P )
There were peacocks and some other birds there...I'm not quite sure why.
In the end, the only thing we actually wanted to see was the tomb. We could go into the houses to take a look, but there wasn't much point - they were quite bare and only had a few things inside, so it wasn't like we could see how they lived in those days. There was another house where there were 3D recreations of scenes from Mahsuri's life (what for??), and a museum where there was the whole story of Mahsuri's life (from when her mother was pregnant with her, to her descendants; turns out she had a son when she was killed)
I guess this site was made for foreign tourists who had never heard of Mahsuri's legend...and also those who would be awed to see the inside of an old Malay house. For me...RM5 to see a tomb is a bit too much.
The other destinations were better...until the last one (haha, guess we didn't start nor end well). So maybe I should write about that last one first...to keep you coming back for the better bits. Should I? :P
Anyway, there was a lovely eagle and cobra outside Kota Mahsuri. The prettiest thing there, I would say. Here you go:
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