VACATION TO PULAU PAYAR

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Payar Island ( Pulau Payar ) is an island in Kedah, Malaysia. Payar Island status as a marine park offers protection for its diverse marine life. It is a very popular tourist destination. It's Malaysia's oldest Marine Park sanctuary. These islands, famous for the varied and colourful marine life that they support, offer the best diving site on Peninsular Malaysia's west coast. At Pulau Payar, the largest of the four, you will find the Marine Park Centre.

The Payar Island Marine Park is situated in the northern part of the Straits of Melaka, 19 nautical miles (35 km) south of Langkawi and encompasses the islands of Payar, Lembu, Segantang and Kaca which are surrounded by coral reefs. The marine park teems with a diversity of marine life and vegetation.

We get in into ticket Jabatan Taman Laut Pulau Paya, that which arranged and will make sure all payar island serounding is save. It's about 30 staff working as a shift. Some from them is really friendly :) 

We just interview with En Razak from JTL Kedah about this island and get some information and instruction. Description of island clusters and surrounding water are provided in the center in the form of charts,poster,maps,pamphlets, slideshow/video to enhance your appreciation of marine enviroment and the island.
As of 2 November 2010, Payar Island Marine Park is just a shadow of its former self. Due to excessive carrying capacity and persistently extreme sea water temperatures for the last six months, the Payar Island Marine Park suffered from widespread coral bleaching at a critical level. The corals there are now dull whitish-grey/black and not the bright rainbow of colours they once were. Even marine life density around the area has been recorded to be significantly lesser compared to previous years.
The Department of Marine Park Kedah has taken drastic action by closing the affected areas in order to minimize human aggravated stress on the corals. The closed areas are the Payar Marine Park Center and the famous Coral Garden. No snorkeling and diving activities are allowed in these areas up till today.
The mass bleaching became even more severe by 2016 due to the prolonged El Nino phenomenon which started in mid 2015 affecting more than half the reefs in Thailand and Peninsular Malaysian waters.
3 way to Pulau payar, Penang and Kuala Kedah but we get to Payar Island from the Kuah jetty point by catamaran or speed boat. The catamaran services operated by Langkawi Coral, takes about 45 minutes to get to Payar Island while the speed boat takes an hour. It is advisable to book the catamaran service a day before the trip. Enquiries can be made with any travel agent in Kuah or at the jetty point for those intending to travel by speed boat. Apart from the fare, a levy of RM5.00 for adults and RM2.50 for children is charged for entry to the marine park. Foreigner is about RM30 for adult and RM 15 for children under 12.                                                                                                                                   None of the island is inhabited, except by on-duty officers of the Fisheries Department, who enforce the law. Fishing, either for hobby or commercial, is strictly prohibited around the islands. This may be surprising to many legal officials or any criminal defense attorney Cincinnati.