Of hot springs and political gifts

Time to continue on our Langkawi trip! This episode, we're visiting the hot springs. There is a gate leading into what they call Ayer Hangat Village.

the hot spring area

The water was rather dirty...I wonder why they don't clean it up a bit. There wasn't any information to be found anywhere either...maybe they're just starting to build up the place for tourists. There was someone cleaning one of the jacuzzis as we walked by, so we got to take a peek into it.

the jacuzzis (there are a lot more)

inside, there's a private pool (and a shower head too)

I can't remember the price, but it was per hour, and any number of people can go in.

the main hot spring source (the original Telaga Ayer Hangat), boarded up

little pools with roofs over them...there were several, but some weren't warm at all!

here we can soak our feet...again, there was no sign board ot anything

Now this one was really warm...especially when we put our feet in. Just touching it with our hands at first, it didn't feel so warm...

Inside the pool...is it algae?

The water's not very clean, huh...but maybe this is what contributes to the medicinal properties? :P

After that we went to the Perdana Gallery (which was on the way back to our hotel, actually). We weren't planning on going in, but it wasn't too expensive (RM5, RM3 for senior citizens, I think) so we went in to take a look. There were really too many things...all the stuff that Mahathir received during his stint as the Prime Minister. Looking at all those, I wonder...how much money was spent just to make yourself look good to other countries? :s Rather pointless...

If we wanted to bring our camera into the gallery, we needed to pay an extra RM2, so we didn't. So I only have photos of two ships in the parking lot outside the gallery.

Impressive...especially the first one.

More to come...you haven't seen the eagle yet! ;)