Johor state is the southern state in Malaysia
Peninsula which is also being Singapore’s “neighbour”. Most of the population of Johor is living in the
west coast region and southern region of the state. The obvious reason is
southern region is nearby Singapore custom, whereas west coast region of Johor
is more developed and being more accessible to JB town and Singapore custom.
Our first
destination in Johor was Pontian Kecil.
Pontian Kecil is the district capital of Pontian district. The name of
‘Pontian’ is derived from Perhentian which means a stop for the fishermen and
traders long long time ago. Therefore, within Pontian district, there are so
many fishing villages in the district and the most prestigious one is Kukup fishing village which is nearby
to the Tanjung Piai National Park. Tanjung Piai National Park is a mangrove
forest and also the southernmost point of Eurasian continent. Then, there is a
huge of pineapple farm in Pontian district as that district is being the
Malaysia’s largest exporter of Pineapple. The
places which I mentioned above, unfortunately, we didn’t travel to there
because of raining torrential at that time. We just eventually had fast
food lunch at KFC Pontian Kecil then departed to the next destination, Kluang.
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| The view of Pontian Teochew Assiociation from KFC. |
Kluang
is a town in the south central of Johor region. Kluang town is more developed than
Pontian Kecil town as it is located in the middle of old trunk road between KL and
JB and it has a railway station that linked with JB Sentral to Tumpat,
Kelantan. Besides, Kluang town is lies in an undulating area of hills and there
are two famous hiking destination in Kluang which as Gunung Lambak and Gunung Belimut (we had no time to hike*). Upon we
reached there in the late evening, then we stayed there a night and the next
day we continue our trip in Kluang town. Luckily,
my elder sister’s friend is living there, so she will be our “one day tour
guide” on the next day (21/06/2018).
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| The view from Hotel Ailang, Kluang. |
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| Night view of Sin Kintong Restaurant. |
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| Kluang Railway Station |
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| Simple life. |
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| Kopitiam |
On the next day,
we had our breakfast at Kluang Rail Kopitiam
which is in the Kluang railway station. According to my elder sister’s friend,
she said this place always jostled with people have their breakfast there (it
was indeed correct lah since we barely found a place to sit there). We ordered
the typical breakfast dishes that are available in each and every of the
kopitiam such as Roti Bakar, Half boiled
eggs, Nasi Lemak, Teh Tarik and Kopi O… After that, we went to the mural street art in town centre
to take photo. The mural street art is located nearby Jalan Merdeka and Jalan
Dato Kapitan Ahmad. You will get to see a number of pre-war shop lots in the
town centre as well… I think ah, usually, the mural arts were done to
beautify that particular small town or city in order to draw tourists to flock
into that place to travel. And they the MPK had done it.
Later, she
brought us to the Kluang’s Chinese Tao Association, Persatuan Memperbaiki Akhlak Che Luan Khor Kluang (居銮德教会紫銮阁).
Even though that place is Che Luan Khor teaching aka De (德)
teaching assiociation, but it has the Guan Yin Ma status and it is open to public to visit the interior
of the building (you can also pray there if you are Chinese Buddhist or
Taoist*). Besides, there is also willow trees surround the Chinese garden
with a few pavilions for visitors to take a rest and sightseeing. We took some
photos in the Chinese garden right before us going to the next place which was
Kluang Coffee Powder Factory.
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| Old Shops in the town centre... |
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| Laman Kreatif Kluang. |
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| Acting cool... |
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| Mural art. |
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| Family picture without my mother as she said she was busy with her construction tender. | * |
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| Family picture without my mother as she said she was busy with her construction tender.* |
Some people had
said that “you are not finish travelling in Kluang, if you have not drunk their
coffee yet.” So, we arrived to KluangCoffee Powder Factory (Cap Televisyen) to visit the place and drink
their coffee. Brief history here,
“Cap Televisyen” coffee business was established by Mr. Goh Tong Tor (Goh Ah
Kow) in 1966. He chose Television as his coffee’s trademark because he hoped
that his coffee can be like television where it is owned by each and every
household and at the same time, it could bring families closer
together while they enjoy a good cup of coffee. Me and my family and my sister
friend’s ordered coffee to drink and relax there before having lunch.
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| Cap Televisyen... |
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| Famous people who visited there before... |
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| Naise... (Coffee + Biscuits = Perfect Combination) |
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| News article 1 |
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| News Article 2 |
After we had our
lunch, my sister’s friend went back home and we continued our day trip to Yong Peng. Yong Peng is a small town
that located nearby the KL-JB old trunk road and North-South Highway. It
recently has a new tourist spot for us to visit which is the Fortune Dragon (转运祥龙).
Fortune Dragon is just situated at the opposite of the Yong Peng’s Chinese Tao
Association, namely Persatuan Memperbaiki
Akhlak Che Luan Khor Yong Peng (永平德教会紫銮阁). The entrance fees are RM25.00 for adult, whereas RM10.00 for children.
There are 2
different sections in the interior of dragon body. At the beginning, it is the "Heaven" (the mural arts in
this section depict about the fillal deeds done by the human), whereas the last
part is the "Hell" (the
mural arts in this section depict about the punishment for those who commit
wrongdoings in their life). Meanwhile, outside the dragon’s body there is a few of Chinese pavilion for us to rest
and to sightseeing the surrounding of the Tao Temple. After finish visiting
this place, we finally went back home…
So, this is my family’s 2 days 1 night trip in
Johor. This trip is mostly about the coffee and the Chinese temples there to
visit. It was indeed a very short and
thigh trip and my mother didn’t join us for family trip as she was busy with preparation
of construction tender*
