We walked to pulau giam during chinese new year 2024. The phenomenon where the sea was especially low and they can walk across the sandbanks to the pulau and we wished that the locals that advised us to walk across the sea to give us the full story before starting the walk. Its not a far walk about 20 minutes tops. Highly recommend to NOT walk in barefoot and wear some type of swim shoes/boots that are a tight fit and cannot float and wash away by the tide, also to make sure all valuables such as handphone be in watertight pouches. During the walk across to pulau giam they will be many obstacles. 1st obstacle will be halfway across, here you WILL step on whether you like it or not, slimy gooey sea cucumber that will eject a type of white string in defense, covering bottom of your pants and shoes will be in this white string. 2nd obstacle the sandbanks will dip and turn so your footing will not be stable. 3rd obstacle will be seeing your beloved sandals floating away because you lost your footing and fell down onto the array of sharp hidden corals around the sandbanks on the way to pulau giam. 4th obstacle will be hearing the outrageous prices they charge to tourists to take a boat ride back to coral beach from pulau giam as you no longer want to walk the way back. 5th obstacle will be steeling your nerves and feeling the regret in the pits of your gut to walk across the sandbanks back to coral beach pulau pangkor. So there you have it, an honest review from a local tourist. By the way everybody in pangkor island is upcharging the sales price of food, snacks, toiletries, etc. It is no longer cheaper than kl, whereas in perak food is still affordable.

1) Boat ride cost around RM120 per family 2) Snorkelling - not as expected. The water is not as expected, no fish swimming around and quite dangerous snorkelling as a lot of slippery rock/thorny 3) Not as per pictures or googling around. Maybe due to too many people visiting here and it is no longer beautiful