JB KUKUP PORT DICKSON Mar 2023

 

20 Mar 2023

Singapore-Kukup-Pontian-Port Dickson

My wife and me drove through the Tuas Checkpoint and headed to Horizon Hill for our Dim Sum breakfast.

After breakfast we drove Kukup. Kukup is a fishing village in South Western tip of Johore. It is known for its seafood restaurants built on stilts over the marshy water.  Many houses belonging to Chinese are built over the mangrove swamp on stilts. Fishermen are mainly Malays while the Chinese are fish merchants.

Almost all the houses are built over the sea. Many Chinese temples too to serve the Chinese community

Kukup Boat Tour

                                        

                                              Main Street of Kukup

                                      

We drove along the coast towards Pontian, another fishing village and Chinese dominated town.

 

After lunch, we drove to Port Dickson and stayed at the majestic Avillion Admiral Cove Resort. We had a sumptuous seafood dinner at a nearby restaurant.

Seafood dinner at Yun Long Restaurant.

Google route record

Perak Aug 2023

 7 Aug 2023

The ETS train left Ipoh Station punctually at 0935 and arrived Gemas Station at 1450. The train for JB was just across the platform and also left punctually at 1520. It arrived at the very busy JB Central station at 1945.

 From here, it was busy jostling through the throng of visitors returning to Singapore through overcrowded immigration lanes at Johore and Singapore. SBS bus shuttle operated to Kranji MRT Station. I was home around midnight.                 

It was a refreshing 10 days of travelling in Perak. I really enjoyed the delicious food at the each of the towns I visited. A very strong Chinese dominance is evident in all the major towns in Perak. The buildings are mostly double storeys with European features definitely remind us of a colonial past. The signboards are prominently in Chinese indicate the overwhelming Chnese control of commerce.  Along the coast, I see mainly Malay villages mostly related to fisheries and rice farming.  Even then, in each of these villages, there are pocket of Chinese houses and one can certainly see a Chinese temples nearby. Aong the coast, fishing boats dotted the coastline and inland, there are rice field with coconut and palm trees lining the perimeters..

Betong in southern Thailand was interesting too. It was more of a Chinese town with many Muslims malay, more like a Malaysian town. It is less developed compare to Malaysia.