Not too long ago, Langkawi was a cluster 99 fairly undeveloped, jungle-clad atolls. These days it’s become one of Malaysia’s premier tourism draw cards. Pulau Langkawi, the main island, is a mountainous isle where the most tourism action takes place but, perhaps because of its sheer size (approximately 500sqkm), development doesn’t seem to have encroached unduly on the island’s way of life. Fishing villages, green paddy fields, limestone outcrops, palm-fringed beaches and sandy coves are ubiquitous and visitors are well catered for with tourist-friendly facilities and beach resorts.