A short break: 48 hours in Penang and Langkawi


Guests staying at Parkroyal Langkawi Resort get to enjoy meals at one of its seven sunken seats in the shallow pool. — Photos: FLOREY D. MIKIL/The Star

Curious eyes watched our every move as we cautiously walked past some long-tailed macaques perched on the railings, our own gazes averted in order to not provoke the animals.

They continued watching. A few more of them gathered further front, this time joined by the relatively docile dusky leaf monkeys aka langurs that the Langur Way Canopy Walk which we tread upon was named after.

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