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What’s so cool about Pangkor Island?
It’s a tropical island paradise. Beautiful sandy beaches. Clear, calm sea. Flora and fauna – some unique of Pangkor Island. Nice friendly people. Good food. Seasport and outdoor activities – jungle trekking, snorkeling, scuba diving, fishing, cycling, canoeing, etc.
About the island
Crystal clear water and bright blue sky. View of the enchanting Bogak Beach
Pulau Pangkor / Pangkor Island is an island in the Straits of Melaka. It has beautiful clean beaches and turquoise coloured sea, a paradise for holiday makers. This island is growing in popularity among local and foreign tourists. Beautiful beaches with enchanting views are main attractions to Pangkor Island. Several types of accommodation are available on two main beaches of Pangkor – Pantai Pasir Bogak (Bogak Beach) and Pantai Teluk Nipah (Nipah Bay).
Pasir Bogak offers a wide range of choices from budget chalets to comfortable hotel rooms to apartments while Teluk Nipah offers hundreds of wooden traditional chalets, modern brick chalets and hotel rooms.
We provide booking services for accommodation. Special accommodation packages are available for individuals, couples, families and groups.
Public facilities and ammenities are available on the island, e.g. banks with ATMs, post office, hospital, clinics, seafood restaurants and outlets, broadband internet, celular access and many others. To move around Pangkor Island you can use the island’s pink taxi (van) service or rent cars or motorcyles.
Pangkor Engagement
A moment in history
(1874), treaty between the British government and Malay chiefs in Perak, the first step in the establishment of British dominion over the Malay states. In January 1874, Governor Andrew Clarke of the Straits Settlements, prompted by the local trading community, organized a meeting between British, Malay, and Chinese leaders to settle a Perak succession dispute and to stop warfare between Chinese secret societies. Named after Pangkor Island, off the Perak coast, the engagement adjudicated these issues.
Raja Abdullah
The complicated Perak succession controversy was settled in favour of Raja Abdullah, the candidate supported by Lower Perak chiefs, who had been passed over in the 1871 succession. Ismail, the Upper Perak contender, absent from the meeting, was pensioned off with an annual allowance and was granted the honorific title of sultan muda. In return for British backing, Abdullah agreed to accept a British resident (adviser) with broad powers at his court.
The Chinese-secret-society issue was settled in the separate Chinese Engagement. Similar agreements were later signed with other Malay states, achieving de facto British rule of the Malay Peninsula by 1914.
Encyclopedia Britannica’s Pangkor Engagement
Editor-next I’m going to put an article on Dutch people who set foot on Pangkor soil. Please return to read the article.
Rock Animals
You will discover natural numerous rock formations which resemble animals and such on this rocky island. When you take a cruise on a speed boat along the beaches and small islands try to find these rocks. They are amazing to look at.
Remember Sir Elton John's Crocodile Rock?
This is the turtle rock. You will find it near the Turtle Bay. Amazingly, it is on this beach that turtles come to lay eggs
This one uncanningly looks like a whale
A pair of feet protruding, like a giant sleeping on his back
Kinda like a fairy tale... here we have an elephant showing its back and a tortoise in the foreground. A zoo of rock animals?
Aren’t they wonderful?
A Glimpse of the Two Most Popular Beaches of Pangkor
Panoramic view of the Nipah Bay beach (amateur video)
Driving along Pasir Bogak Beach (amateur video)
