Pulau Perhentian beaches

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Coral Bay

Coral Bay lays on the west coast of Perhentian kecil. It is a 200m m long sandy bays with very clear water. On a sunny day, one can watch very nice and beautiful sunsets while sitting in a small beach bar. Pitty that they had built a big jetty in the middle of the nice bay, which disturb the nice views extremely.

There are six small bungalow resorts side by side on the small beach. The new concrete building of Ombak dive resort is hidden back behind trees.

Long Beach

This is the main beach for backpackers, divers and people looking for some party and fun on the beach. Pasir Panjang, the Long Beach is about 600m long and has simple resorts, beach restaurants, diving schools and bars. At night time there are music and fireshows till early morning hours.

Bubu resort and villas offer modern und quite luxury accommodations, while most bungalows and rooms are rather cheap. Beach umbrellas can be rented and the water of the turquoise bay is shallow and warm, very good for taking a long bath or snorkel at the rocks.

A short walking trek connects Long Beach and Coral Bay.

Romantic Beach

North of Coral Bay is a short beach with nothing at all but silence and lonelyness. It is called romantic beach because of the possibility to watch a spectacular sunset all alone with your darling. The taxi brings you there for 10 MR per person per way and pick you up again after the time period you wish to stay there.

Teluk Pauh Beach

Teluk Pauh means Mango Bay. This nice bay is located in the north west of Perhentian besars and has two resorts: Coral View and dem Perhentian Island Resort (PIR). The shallow bay is nice for swimming and snorkeling. In the western part of the bay is 'Turtle Point', where sea turtle join the snorklers on some days. The beach is devided by the jetty in the one part belonging to Coral View and has some rocks and broken corals on the beach, the other is a long stretch of a fine sandy beach belonging to PIR. On daytime there is a lot of traffic from taxi boats and diving school boats.

Turtle Beach

Turtle beach is on the north coast, just neighbouring Mango Bay. The 300m long beach has no infrastructure, but is a beautiful spot to spend a day there with swimming and snorkeling. Sea turtles still come here for digging their eggs into the sand, and a protected area is been watched strongly. The taxi boat trip is between 8 and 25 MR per person one way to turtle beach, depending on where one comes from. In high season, it is not a lonely beach anymore.

Flora Bay Beach

This big bay in the south of Perhentian besar (Telik dalam = inner bay) has a nice and long white sand beach with shady places under trees and palms. The bay has very shallow and warm water and many corals, so it is not possible to enter by big boats. There is no jetty like in other bays, which makes this place look a bit more natural. The beach istself is clean and white. There are eight small resorts and some small and simple restaurants along the beachside. It is a very quiet and relaxing bay for totally hiding away and filling up your batteries.

But, there are diving centers and you may swim and snorkel or just take a long bath in the calm waters of the bay. At the nearby shark point, you may watch small sharks when snorkeling. It is a perfect beach for smaller kids, cause it is safe and has just very small waves when he weather is fine.

Abdul´s Beach

The beach in front of Abdul´s Chalets is a 300m long stretch of white sand with crystal clear waters and some corals. It is devided by a big jetty into two parts, the southern part belongs to Abdul´s, the northern part to Tunabay Resort. Here is a lot of boat traffic, while the southern part is more silent.

Other beaches

At the southwestern and southern coast of Perhentian kecil are some very small beaches. They can be reached by walking through the steep jungle or better, by taxi boats. If you want to be alone or get away for day, you might be right there. One beach is owned by Alunan Boutique Resort, a real hideaway on Perhentian, where one can spend some days on a hidden beach in a nice bungalow very near to nature.

On Perhentian besar there are some lonely beaches right south of Abdul´s Chalets. Old and broken houses are used by local fishermen and their colorful fishing boats wave on the water. At the southernmost point of the island, snorkeling is great, and here is a very natural and hidden noname beach to spend a quiet daytime, maybe watched by varans from inside the bushes. The tropical rainforest grows here straight to the beach.