Tuesday, August 1, 2017

One day trip to Kuala Kurau

in conjunction with the bike week of penang, we plan a day trip to penang bike week which held in Juru Auto City ;and enroute to Kuala Gula, Kuala Kurau ; bagan seberang and tanjung piandang. passing by sungai udang, kampong sungai acheh to nibong tebal and bukit tambun then to the destiny Juru Auto City...ths is just a medium short ride of 350kilometers.
following are the photos and pictures of the trip to illustrate the journey.
 to do the top up of fuel at semanggol caltex fuel station
 at kuala gula...here is the land mark of Kuala Gula


 river mouth at kuala gula.... the residents here almost all are fishermen.










 chinese temple at kuala gula

 the only petrol station in the fishing village.
 these are the small prawns they catch from the river and they dried them and packed for sale





 after visiting kuala gula we went on to bagan seberang ,which is about 8 kilometers away from kuala gula.

 here the restaurant at bagan seberang....this restaurant is famous for its sun set view.... especially at around the evening the sun set views here are magnificent.






 the pier where motor boats  carry passengers to the floating fishing ponds on the river.
 here at bagan seberang the food court here are famous ...here sell variety of hawkers food. famous drinks here must try is " hor ka sai" this is the local favorite of coffee mixed with Milo.


 te curry noodles is one of the favorite too...































 the homestay at bagan seberang..... there are all in 7 rooms in the homestay.....




 tidy , nice and clean....a room can occupied 4 to 5 persons.....
 room rates are of 3 types.
RM 198
RM 158 and RM 138.
per room per night.












 there are two bridges that link bagan seberang and kuala kurau....this picture show is the smaller bridge that can only carry pedestrian, bicycle and motorbike....stritly no car is allow...its too narrow for it.







 kuala kurau...
 the pisture show the shape of the smaller bridge..

 Ban pechah ....here is another tourists spot...

 these ban are made to avoid the erosion of the land that eat up by the sea tide...










 the ban looks prominent...






 finally we reached tanjung piandang...

















 land mark for tanjung piandang is this big temple...


 here we are at sungai udang,....crossing this iron bridge to reach Nibong Tebal.







 the jetty here in the evening , tourists are here to board the boat to go and see the fireflies...
 at last we reached Juru Auto City to visit the bike week here ......