When the sun goes down at Kuala Selangor, twinkling fireflies light up the berembang trees along the Selangor River. Experience the natural display on a tour from Kuala Lumpur that includes a boat trip, seafood buffet, and round-trip transport from your centrally-located hotel.

Experience the fireflies of Kuala Selangor on a tour from Kuala Lumpur
Stop at Fort Altingsburg to see silvered leaf monkeys
Feast on a seafood dinner at a local fishing villages
Round-trip transfers from your hotel included

What's Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off (5km radius from KLCC)
English speaking driver with live commentary
Set Seafood dinner (package with dinner only)
Air-conditioned vehicle
Entrance fees and boat ride

Gratuities
Beverages (You can purchase on the day)
Surcharge of USD 10 per person for pickup outside 5km radius from the city center is applicable
Tram Ride

Meeting And Pickup

You can head directly to your preferred meeting point, or request pickup.

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Start time

03:30 pm

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Pickup details

Free hotel pick-up & drop-off from your hotel located at Kuala Lumpur City Centre (5km radius from KLCC). You can also join our tour from Kuala Lumpur meeting point namely Malaysia Tourism Centre (MaTic): 109, Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (please wait in front of Harriston Chocolate Boutique on the right side of the main entrance) An additional surcharge of USD 10 per person for hotel pickup outside 5km radius from the city center is applicable and payable on the day of your activity.

What To Expect

Begin with pickup at your Kuala Lumpur hotel, or at the Malaysia Tourist Centre, then travel to Kuala Selangor. Take a break along the way to see Fort Altingsburg at Bukit Melawati, where you get views of a hilltop lighthouse, and see a thriving population of silvered leaf monkeys, long-tailed macaques, and tropical birds.

Visit a nearby fishing village for a Malaysian-style seafood buffet, then continue to Kampung Kuantan, a launch point on the Selangor River. Travel along the river in a quiet, eco-friendly rowboat so you don’t disturb the fireflies, or kelip-kelip, and watch them glow in the evening air. Discover the fireflies’ mysterious synchronicity: though each firefly flashes at its own rhythm, the lights slowly align until thousands of bugs light up in unison, and coastal Malaysia is considered the best place in the world to see the phenomenon.

After your boat tour, return to shore for return transfer to your Kuala Lumpur hotel.

Kuala Lumpur (Pass By)

Sungai Buloh (Pass By)

Sri Shakti Temple

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Bukit Melawati

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Altingsburg Lighthouse

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Kuala Selangor (Pass By)

Kuala Selangor Nature Park (Taman Alam Kuala Selangor) (Pass By)

Kuala Selangor Firefly Park

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Kuala Selangor Firefly Park (Pass By)

Kampung Kuantan Firefly Park (Pass By)

Sky Mirror

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Kuala Lumpur (Pass By)

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Not wheelchair accessible
The use of flash photography is not permitted during firefly tours.
Recommend to use mosquito repellent.
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps

Most travellers can participate
An additional surcharge of USD 10 per person for hotel pickup outside 5km radius from the city center is applicable and payable on the day of your activity.
What to Wear - Light and comfortable clothing (preferably dry-fit material), Walking shoes, It is recommended to wear closed shoes
What to Bring - Insect repellent, Camera, Sport sandals & Insect repellent
Tours are conducted in English only
This tour will push through rain or shine. In case of rain, please do bring an umbrella or poncho
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Featured review

Climber52134666086

We truly enjoyed our tour with Nesan! His warm personality and quick humor made him an excellent tour guide. He emphasizes that his tours are spontaneous, so he brought us to see a Hindu temple and feed silver leaf monkeys on the way to Kuala Selangor, and to the King's Palace on the way back to KL. We had a great time at all of these locations! Additionally, he provided us with a Malaysian history lesson that was both informative and captivating. Once we arrived at the final destination, we had a tasty Chinese seafood feast and sipped on Tiger beer. The boat tour was peaceful and the fireflies lit up the bushes beautifully. The tour was an incredible experience and we enjoyed meeting our new friend Nesan!

Reviews

4.5

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Happy with experience

Cherelle_H, Sept 2023

The driver we had was fantastic. Very helpful kind and generous person also. Make sure you take some cash with you as not all places there have card facilities.

Over-hyped disappointment

Chuck_H, Aug 2023

The fireflies were extremely over hyped. It was a long boat 'race' with lots of others getting to the river bank sites. The firefly lights were in the trees amongst the leaves, and were small and not too dense. About ten minutes searching and looking and that was it. The 'glowing blue water' was a bigger disappointment. Despite the pictures in the ads of glowing water, you were given a small net on a stick to wave in the water. Someone out would create a glow for a few seconds, sometimes not. It was not at all as expected. The so at the temple was OK, but no natrative or information given. The best was probably the monkey stop, as they were plenty up close. The optional dinner was fine, though.

Get out of town.

hurleynancy, June 2023

Bioluminescent algae!our guide, teban, was funny and informative. Food was great. It’s a far car ride but otherwise perfect.

Response from Host, June 2023

Thanks for the 5 stars Hurley, your review is a great way to let us know we’re on track for making our customers smile! We appreciate you taking the time to give your feedback and look forward to serving you again in the future.

Tour host Faisal was wonderful!

Margaret_H, Feb 2023

Our tour was wonderful due to having a great tour host faizal. He made all our stops come alive and made sure that all details for dinner and firefly trip were seamless. Wonderful experience

Enjoyable excursion out in nature and discovering local culture.

CarolA_J, Feb 2023

The stops along the way were great - we saw a temple, fed monkeys ❤️❤️❤️, and had a lovely dinner by the river. The fireflies were fun, but don’t show up well in photos or video, so just enjoy the show.

Mass tourism in big speedboats

Mascha_L, Jan 2023

I did this tour four times before. First you go and feed the monkeys. Normally with a view on the straight of malaka at a ford and firehouse, lovely scenery. Now instead of going up the hill we fed the monkeys down the hill at the parkinglot. Not a very nice environment at all. Then a nice meal at the river. Normally we drove down to longtail boats and have a quiet boatdrive with a paddle, no noice all calm, very romantic with max four people in the boat. It was like a fairytail. This time however, we boarded at the river where the restaurants are. Big speedboats and they loaded 30 to 40 people on one boat. With 6 big noisy speedboats in a row we raced to the fireflies. People were noisy, filming the fireflies with the flash on, so fireflies were hard to see this way (you cannot film or photograph these flies anyway) there was nothing romantic about it anymore. The faitytail it once was is gone. So dissapointing...

Skip it, not worth

Saravanan_G, Dec 2022

It was a total letdown, starting from the trip that have been postponed to 26th Dec by the operator, instead of the original date 25th dec. For the firefly cruise which was scheduled at 7PM, we've been picked up at 3:30 PM and dropped at 5PM on the location and we've to wait for 2 hours, doesn't make any sense. The magical experience as stated and shown in the pic, wasn't exactly magical atal. Instead you've to search for the fireflies within the bushes, sitting in the boat and we hardly saw a few of them and it's no means mesmerizing or memorable. Better to spend the time/money elsewhere.

Fireflies

Alberto_V, Feb 2020

The driver was on time for pick up and very easy to talk do. He did a good job at explaining everything related to the tour. The meal called a seafood should be called a vegetarian one instead. No dessert, no napkins to clean your hands, this was disappointed. The rest of the tour was great.

Disappointed with tour

oemarina0726, Jan 2020

Tour description was misleading and tour was overpriced. Description was of small boat and opportunities to take pictures of many fireflies. Boat was packed with over 40 people and never stopped and fireflies were scarce so no ability to take photos. Price was far too expensive so I would not recommend.

Response from Host, Jan 2020

Thank You for leaving review and we are really very sorry that our services didnt touch your satisfiction mark. Your review will helps us to overview our services but the issue you pointouted is not comon as you can search our other reiews in which diffrent travelers shared there experiences with good comments as well as good rating. We always focus on our tour discription and provide crystal clean information to avoid any misleading concept. The boat selection is clearly optional, and there is breife discription about boats. We are very sorry again, and difinitly we will analyse the tour discription using your feeback to fulfill our weakness gap. Thanking You

Nice tour outside KL

Hendrik_K, Jan 2020

Good guides, small group. The stop at the palace is nice and the lighthouse and monkey hill had great scenery although the monkeys are especially where the humans are (for the food). The remains of the fortress ar uphill behind the canons, but no signs. Diner was good. ´Fireflies´ was maybe the main purpose but for me the least attractive. Nice to cross the river in the dark in a boat, but at the bushes where the fireflies are you see small lights like a crtistmas tree for 10 minutes, that´s it.

Not worth the money and time

rbR290LG, Dec 2019

It was a nice experience, but a bit dissapointing for the price (expensive) and the time to get there from Kuala Lumpur. Only do this if you have plenty of time and nothing else to do.

Response from Host, Dec 2019

Thank you for posting a review and we’re sorry to hear that your experience was not of the quality you expected Please feel free to reach out to +60196969325 with any further comments, concerns, or suggestions you wish to share. We would love to make things right if you give us another chance.

Beautiful scenery /historical/fresh local food

MARGIE_R, Dec 2019

Small group of 4 tourists was a plus for a very informative fun trip to see not only fireflies, but stop at Hindu temple and monkey hill, then onto a local seafood dinner at a beautiful riverside restaurant.

Boattrip

Ruth_M, Oct 2019

The Tour its self was good, the driver was very funny but the seafood dinner was poor . The boattrip was good .

Fireflies weren't the highlight

Heather L, Aug 2019

This was a good tour to get out of the city in a day. Our guide took us to several stops that we enjoyed, especially monkey hill. I wish we could have had more time there! The firefly tour was pretty quick, and since there was a lot of moonlight it was a bit harder to see than I imagined (not the tour's fault, but check the phase of the moon before you book if you are looking to see bright fireflies).

Kuala Selangor Firefly Tour Review

Jayson V, July 2019

This tour had multiple trips prior to the actual Firefly tour. The trips that were prior to the Firefly tour were great. However, I think the actual firefly tour wasn't what I was expecting. Don't get me wrong though, but actually seeing them close-up was pretty cool. I believe this could have been substituted for something more of an interesting event.

One of a Kind Experience!

Climber52134666086, May 2019

Fire flies trip

Louis_H, Apr 2019

Nice trip including the sea food. Nice driver by mr. Harry. Arrived on time for pickup at hotel and drove us safely.

Perfect!!

Wander40224757930, Jan 2019

It ended up being a private tour and our guide was wonderful! He even added in a wonderful Hindu temple! The fireflies did not disappoint!! Loved getting out of Kuala Lumpur and experiences the beautiful countryside and meeting locals!

The firefly boat tour left us in...

Dean_B, July 2018

The firefly boat tour left us in awe. Its like a subtle Christmas bush show. The lights given off by the fireflies feel sweet and beautiful. The kids enjoyed it so much! They even got to touch/hold the fireflies that were let into boat. Dinner was pleasant and next to the water so we watched the sunset. Beautiful. Our tour guide, Nasen, was AMAZING! It was just our family of 5 3kids 6 and under. He made it so memorable for the kids, showing us the monkeys, golden babies of the silver leaf monkeys. He made sure our very independent and adventurous son was always nearby. Told us all kinds of stories and information like about bird nests and palm oil extraction. We even got to go to a temple which was a bonus! My oldest still remembers his name! It was like being on a tour with a good friend. He even took us to the store so that we could buy floaties for our kids to swim the next day. Nasen truly went above and beyond to give us a fantastic experience.

I booked this tour with no high...

AntonioNhat_C, Feb 2018

I booked this tour with no high expectation and was met with lots of terrific experiences. We had a private tourguide, his name is LG. He speaks fluent english and was so welcoming that me and my wife felt pretty safe all the way through the journey. He took us to Selangor, which we like to actually experience how things are outside the dense area Kuala Lumpur. LG has it all, he is calm and shows repect to your point of view. We had very good chemistry. We brought up different topics and shared travel experiences. I would say that he went the extra mile to make sure that the service is a slice better than good. I will absolutely recommend this tour. You get to see other parts of Malaysia. You get stories from a local malay LG and ofcourse the fireflies experience that is priceless. It's lots of fireflies! My recommendation is to sit back and enjoy the boatride instead of taking pictures. I understand that the main focus is not the food, it was average. If you want lobster and other kinds of seafood than what the package gives, then you can order extra and pay for it. The atmosphere on the restaurant was very busy and fun to watch. Overall, this was more than a fireflies tour. The totally experience was unique for us. The tourguide is important here. We have only met one of them, but have good impression that this is a professional company. We have no problem communication with them. I called them from my hotel and got respond in english. Based on what we know, our tourguide LG is absolutely a recommendation for those who want to exchange things in english and get the little extra out of this tour.