Following last year’s positive experience at Lang Tengah, we made a returning visit to the same island again. After Similan Islands live aboard and the trip to Pulau Sembilan (had good seafood, not so great diving), this is my third diving trip for the year, and that’s 24 dives logged this year. Can’t say I’m complaining. 😀
arriving at Redang Lang Island Resort’s Jetty
We charted a bus and left KL at around 10pm on Thursday night. After spending a night largely freezing our asses off in the bus and had breakfast at Kampung Cina’s kopitiam, we hopped on the transfer boat, and 45 minutes or so later, we arrived at Paradise.
The fine white sand and crystal clear water always has a way of making the journey worth it.
and here’s a slice of paradise here in Malaysia
After lunch, we started diving. There were 5 dives in two days, and they are:
- Day 1, first dive: Karang Nibong, 60 mins, 18m max
- Day 1, second dive: Tanjung Terunjuk, 52 mins, 23m max
- Day 2, morning dive: Terumbuk Kuning, 46 mins, 26m max
- Day 2, second dive: Karang Nibong, 63 mins, 21m max
- Day 2, afternoon dive: Karang Baha, 54 mins, 22m max
finally, a photo of us underwater
We were pretty fortunate on our dives and managed to spot leopard shark on two separate occasions. First at Tanjung Terunjuk on day one and again at Karang Baha on our last dives. However, the sharks were pretty shy, and on both occasions swam away before we could approach close enough for a Kodak moment.
By rough estimates, the sharks were at least 8-9 feet in length, and absolutely stunning.
a shy green turtle hiding beneath a boulder
This was also Haze’s first real diving trip, the two leisure dives at Pulau Sembilan she did (and I participated) had visibilities so poor that there isn’t actually any hint of leisure in them.
On these dives, we were blessed with visibilities in excess of 20 meters on all dives except the two occasions when we veered off to the slightly more challenging areas to spot leopard sharks.
those elusive razorfish
At Redang Lang, like most other resorts, food is included, they are edible and very average. Breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner served at the “canteen” area everyday, and dives are usually scheduled in between meals.
a relative of bad joke eel is found here too
Luckily for Haze and a few others, Redang Lang’s rental gears are all new this year. Often times at budget dive trips the rental gears can be quite… disappointing. This was one of the reasons I bought everything I need sans weight belt and scuba tank.
Lydia making friends with Nemo and family
It was a good couple days of divings. We boarded the bus again on Sunday and left Paradise reluctantly. It was another 10 hours or so before we reached KL (traffic was a bitch, and we made too many stops).
Guess it’s time to plan another trip. 😀
nemo, sea fan, plenty of fish, and this interestingly shaped dead coral.. ermm
James helping out divers taking off their fins before boarding
KY, Haze, Terence, Celine, James, baby and mom, Lydia & the rest
p/s: all photos taken with Olympus E-PL3 with this set of gears.
20m vis ah….i wants T-T
kimberlycun: should have joined us!
gosh. i’ve never been to redang. 🙁
Michelle: aiyo are you still a Malaysian! hahah
cendawan would love those clownfish, did you show him these photos
fresh: probably noms them in 0.2 seconds. lol
An Olympus moment since Kodak went belly up? 😉
Man, I really need to go on that refresher course.
New rental gear eh? Worth checking out. 🙂
Huai Bin: hahaha that’s true. And come back to diving!
Lovely shots!! u gotta teach haze not to exhale while taking foto.. hehe 😛
ciki: haha timing problem only
so syiok… and nice shot of the shy green turtle
eiling: thanks. 😀
Hi, Im a first time diver going to lang tengah soon to dive. may I know how much was scuba diving per person including all the gear n etc? 🙂
Ann: not entirely too sure on the prices for lang tengah dive now, I think they haven’t been getting any more expensive since then either. I’d probably expect 100+ per dive including gears at the most.
ic~ which hotel did u stay in? the rates not too costly? does diving require a cert? or can go even without
ann: I don’t remember the name of the hotel as it was arranged by a friend/scuba instructor at the time.
around what cost for diving there? Equipment and diving dip per time.
ann: I think this would be around RM 1000+ these days. Not entirely sure as this post was written in 2012.