On
the 3rd day of our trip (17/12/2017), we finally reach the Kedah
State of Northern Peninsular Malaysia!
Kedah State
Kedah, I believe many of you who lived in Malaysia or
even foreigners certainly do know this state being famous of its paddy field and Pulau Langkawi (Langkawi Island).
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| Map of the Kedah State |
Kedah state is bordered by Penang State at the
south, Perak State at the southeast, Perlis state to the northwest and Thailand
to the north. The rivers play an important role in making the state’s natural
border. Sungai Muda (Muda river) is the natural border of Penang state and
Kedah state, while Sungai Kerian is the
natural border of Perak State and Kedah State. The state’s capital is situated
at Alor Setar (Which was also the place my family travelled to), meanwhile the
royal capital of Kedah State, however, located at Anak Bukit (which is 10km
north of Alor Setar).
On 17th of December 2017, my family and I
“check-out” from my aunty house to the North (Kedah). My father chose to use old
trunk road to go to Alor Setar so that we could get to see more scenary of
rural areas in Seberang Perai’s outskirt areas as well as the small towns long
the road in Kedah. The actual trip shown on google maps used roughly 90 minutes
to reach Alor Setar from Butterworth (IF you didn’t stop and rest at anywhere
lah…). Here are the place we stopped and travelled.
Sungai Petani
Sungai Petani is one of the industrialized
areas in Kedah State. The town itself already has lots of amenities such as
Rapid Penang bus service from Penang State and Shopping Malls.
Furthermore,
just like Kulim town, Sungai Petani is also very near to the Penang State
centre (31 km away from Butterworth and 59km from Alor Setar, Kedah).
Therefore, this helps the town to develop rapidly to be on par with the major
town of Penang’s Seberang Perai. Lastly, I forgot to mention that this town is
connected with KTM train service from KL sentral to the Thai Border station of
Padang Besar… (IF you backpackers are willing to visit this place lah…)
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| Landmark of Sungai Petani |
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| Landmark of Sungai Petani part 2 |
Gurun
Gurun is only the small town located
between the road from Sungai Petani to Alor Setar and has KTM train station. Nothing
much to talk about, expect the Gunung Jerai (Mount Jerai) nearby there.
After passing by Gurun town, there
is a magnificent view of paddy field along the way from Gurun outskirt to Alor
Setar outskirt. There also has the Malaysia’s longest paddy irrigating system and
canal from Alor Setar to Gurun, namely Wan Mat Saman Aqueduct.
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| Magnificent view of paddy field |
Alor Setar
Alor
Setar, capital state of Kedah, We arrived at Alor Setar at noon. Under the hot scorching
sun, we find a typical chinese restaurant to settle our lunch before we go on
our one day trip in Alor Setar.
There
are few places to go in Kedah such as Alor Setar Tower, Pekan Cina (Chinatown),
Tun Mahathir Mohamad’s birthplace house, Pekan Rabu (Wednesday market), Wat Nikrodharam and Paddy Musuem. Due to lack of time (rushing to Taiping in the
evening), we only go for few places from these destinations.
Alor
Setar Tower is the communication tower for the Kedah State,,,
Even
though the tower is not as tall as KL tower in Kuala Lumpur, but it does give
you a great view of the city…
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| Brief history of Alor Setar Tower |
Pekan
Cina is the Chinatown of Alor Setar. It is located at the riverbank of Kedah
River and besides of Pekan Melayu (where the Pekan Rabu located at). Albeit of
that, the Chinatown is still comparatively quite than the Chinatown in other states…
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| Tanjung Chali, Alor Setar |
The youtube video shows food trip of Alor Setar...
Then,
we said goodbye to Kedah state and travel to Taiping, Perak. It is possible to
have one day trip in Kedah state, IF you began your journey in Penang State…
Merry
belated Chirstmas, everyone…
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