The new jetty for Pulau Pangkor

Continued from The river Dinding from its bridge.

Soon we arrived in Lumut. While going around seeing the town and its vicinity from different angles we found this place...

First we have to cross a bridge...

Welcome to Marina Island Pangkor, a man-made island...

A view inland showing the Lumut naval base and the bridge we've just crossed. The last time I checked these parts of Lumut was probably more than 10 years ago and if remember correctly there were only a bunch of concrete appendages jutting out from the mainland just before the bridge.

A view towards the hills along the way to the beach of Teluk Batik. This should give a better idea of the distance of the man-made island from the mainland...

A view towards what used to be open waters separating the resort island of Pulau Pangkor from the mainland. In the background are the hills on that island.

We noticed there's a new jetty complex...

So we decided to check it out.

One for the album...

A closer view of Pulau Pangkor.

To the jetty...

The island is only about 2.5 km from this jetty. Compare that to the 8.3 km journey or so from the more popular old jetty in Lumut.

They also have what seemed to be much classier ferries here. It's just that not many people know about the existence of this new jetty and the fact it has gone into operation for at least a month. I understand that publicity has been hampered. It seems there are parties which don't want the this jetty to be made known, most probably because they don't want the old jetty to lose business. Hmm...