LUMUT - THE GATEWAY TO PULAU PANGKOR / SPIRIT ISLAND PERAK MALAYSIA TRAVEL VLOG / RMCO LOCK DOWN

Before heading to Perak's Pulau Pangkor, aka Spirit Island we are spending a few days in the little town of Lumut which. The weekend is better avoided, especially since Malaysia lets everyone travel again. The locals, especially the Malays, love the place, and I do understand why. Nowadays it is a duty free island full of nice beaches, jungles, monkeys and hornbills. But let's first look around Lumut which has a special touch. There is not much known about the origins of the inhabitants of Pangkor. The local inhabitants believed that the island was protected by the spirits, so they called Pulau Pangkor the Spirit Island.Another name for Pulau Pangkor in the old days was Dinding, which means 'screen' or 'partition'. This was in reference to the position of the island as it protects the mainland's estuary.Over the years the island was frequently visited by pirates who were roaming the seas around the island. They robbed boats in the Straits of Malacca and hide themselves on the hills on the island. The names of Batu Lanun meaning Pirates' Cave and Batu Perompak meaning Pirates' Rock echo the memory of the pirates.When the Dutch came in 1670, they build a Fort of which the remains still stand. Dutch records referred to it as the Dindings fort ('Dingdingh') - named after the Dindings River which it faced on the coast of the Peninsula. #coronalockdownmalaysia #lumut #malaysia #pulaupangkor Please make sure you subscribe to my channel, Moonshine and Lemongrass You can also find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Moonshine-an... I also have an Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/yves_rechst... I recently also got a Patreon account. If you want to support my channel, please klick this link and see how this will be done. Of course this would be very special to me:   / moonshineandlemongrass      / @yvesthesleeve   This is what I shoot with: https://www.sony.com.my/electronics/a...