Kuala Sepetang is a coastal town located about half-an-hour's drive from Taiping, Perak. Formerly known as Port Weld after a former Governor, Frederick Weld. Port Weld used to be one of the busiest ports in the country, servicing the nearby tin mining industry. The Port Weld railway station was located at the centre of town. The whole railway line from here to Taiping, which was the first railway line in the Peninsular, is now dismantled, and now only the ticketing booth and the Port Weld railway signboard in four languages remain. The ticketing booth is now a Chinese coffee shop, and the shop owner has been maintaining the railway signboard.
Kuala Sepetang is also well known for its mangrove swamp reserve park which is open to the public daily. This is my second time here; my first was a couple of years ago with my family. But for Michelle, it was her first time seeing mangrove swamp and I can say she looked rather excited, especially at the breathing roots which grow out from the grey muddy soil.
This reserve park has a boardwalk built over the swamp for tourists, and chalets in which tourists can rent to stay the night on the riverfront. One good thing about walking through the forest on the boardwalk is that there are no worries for mosquito bite when we are there. We spotted a few locals who went there to have their routine evening jogs.
Both of us of course, took some time off to camwhore there.I can't even buy a piece of karipap nowadays with that amount, you know.

The ferry man used a dalmatian soft toy as the mascot for his boat.
The wooden houses there are build on stilts and for the richer families, they replaced their wooden house with concrete ones. The scene at the village was so similar with those Hong Kong dramas, where you can see people gathering around a table to gamble, shirtless guys cycling through the narrow road, guys smoking and walking in ah beng style, kids running around freely everywhere and the elderly sitting together sharing their grandmother stories lol.

They set-up some wooden poles to make sure the basketball will not hit onto the house behind.
Our presence there evoked weird stares from everyone there, even the kids there were not spared. It was as if we were some movie superstars there; just that the only missing part was the fact that they didn't ask us for autographs. Now we know how it feels to be famous and being the centre point of attention from the public.
People were looking at us when we camwhored at the village, some was even smiling away because they obviously know that we are not from that area. There was a time one guy asked me where I'm from. I should have told him I'm from India and see whether he would believe me.
10 comments:
i know i might sound selfish , but.........i want those food pics?!
u guys really look good together ..... im jealous and i also want a gf!!!!!!!!!!!
The village is very popular with its curry me, which..
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@ mimi:
i am not sure what kind of food pictures you meant, but if you are referring to the local food, i will blog on them very soon. at the same time, people at oversea will curse me when they see that post xD
@ crap:
thanks a lot. work hard and you will find your girl eventually ;)
@ kh:
error edited :)
I swear I have been to this place in my dream.
It's so deja-vu-ic.
and I am not kidding.
Or it's just too similar to the fishing village in Nibong Tebal.
:P
@ specialhuman:
it is already a proven fact and you don't have to deny it anymore now. i know you miss me that much that you even dreamt about my hometown xD
to calvin's comment on specialhuman:lol!!!!!!!!
@ anonymous:
double-lol at anonymous xD
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