MALAYSIA: Your Idyllic Destination!: Visit Malaysia 2014: KUALA SELANGOR!

To all travellers, backpackers, families and who ever loves travelling...

WELCOME TO KUALA SELANGOR!

Since I've stop posting my travel blog last year, (been busy with tight schedule of working & study on weekend), I've decided to open back and try to share all my experienced in my journey through out Malaysia.

Right now I'm a Part Time Student in UNITAR International University at Kelana Jaya, Selangor. Me & my husband, Mazli took a same course which is Bachelor of Business Administration under Karangkraf Scholarship (Our office schollarship, Thank You Karangkraf!

Now we are on Semester 8 which is on short semester. Only two subject we take, one is Financial Management and another one is E-Commerce. Our lecturer, En. Abdul Aziz Mohamed give us a Group Assignment which to promote Malaysia as Visit Malaysia Truly Asia 2014.

Nurul Hana, Mazli, Sashlina, Asfiz & Fickry have choose Kuala Selangor as our historical place must visit in the state of Selangor.

Fikri, Asfiz, Mazli, Nurul Hana & Sashlina

HOW TO GET THERE?

Google maps to Kuala Selangor using highway

Since we use our phone, I've decided to use Waze Apps to go there. We start our journey at 9.00 am and reached Bukit Malawati at 10.00 am. It takes 70 km from Shah Alam Selangor via jalan Kapar.

To all GPS users:

GPS Coordinates: N3 20.483 E101 14.683

WHY WE CHOOSE KUALA SELANGOR?

Selangor /səˈlæŋə/ also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity" is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west. It surrounds the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, both of which were once under Selangor's territorial sovereignty.

One of the nine district of Selangor is Kuala Selangor. We choose this place because of their historical of it, why Bukit Malawati became one of the tourist attraction. So we want to discover about it!

10 THING YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT BUKIT MALAWATI

1. Entrance Fee : RM 5.00 Adult, RM 3.00 Kids ((Ticket is for Bukit Melawati & Freshwater Fish Park)

Buy here the ticket entrance

2. Tourist Train Service is closed on weekday. However, visitors can drive their own car (transport) to visit Bukit Melawati.

3. Lighthouse at Bukit Melawati, Kuala Selangor. It was constructed in 1907 by the British during its ear of colonization of Malay Peninsula. It is 83 feet(height) from seabed & 27 feet from its base. The light beam produced from this lighthouse can extend to 40 until 56 KM in distance. It rotates & flashes twice with the duration of 15 second. This lighthouse has greatly assisted both merchant & fishing ships that sail to this port during the night.

4. There are troops of loveable silver leaf monkeys (silvered langurs) or Lotong who like to frequent the road and tree branches in front of the museum. This is where the tram bus stops and the monkeys have become accustomed to being fed by visitors. There are usually vendors here selling food for monkeys.

5. Batu Hampar or Execution Rock at Bukit Malawati, Kuala Selangor Set at the center of Bukit Malawati entrance. It has a large boulder on top of it where the legend says that Batu Hampar is a site where traitors are beheaded.

Sena tree, local people belief the blood from the traitor comes out when we scratched it.

According to information from Kuala Selangor Museum of History, Batu Hampar is from being former of Sultan Selangor, Sultan Ibrahim to relax & watching fight chicken. Other oral history that some villagers claimed that Batu Hampar is became handmaiden of beheading punishment of adultery and blood splashed around hill. But until now, there is no evidence to confirm it.

6. The Kuala Selangor Historical Museum (Muzium Sejarah Daerah Kuala Selangor) open since 2006 provides information such as the development of the town and its surrounding area, its role as a trading centre for the collection and export of tin and how Kuala Selangor became the capital of Selangor State. During weekend, almost 1000 people will visit here.

Open : 9.30 am
Close : 5.30 pm
Entrance fee: FREE

Signboard entrance of the museum

The Guestbook

Old Selangor Flag

7. In Bukit Melawati are found relics of the past, including the protective walls of the fort, the palace ground, a lighthouse, royal graves, seven walls, a flat stone used for beheading offenders, a 100-step ladder, a poisonous well and several cannons pointed at the moth of the Selangor River (Sungai Selangor).

LIMITED PARKING PROVIDED

8. NO TOILET AVAILABLE AT THE HILL unless you go to the toilet before taking the tram down the hill.

9. PLEASE BRING MINERAL WATER or you will get dehydrated up on the hill.

10. PLEASE, PLEASE & PLEASE EXTRACARE with all of your belongings. Otherwise the Lotong/Monkeys will grab & snatch it. DO NOT FEED THEM WITH JUNK FOOD. Its bad for their healthy too.

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PANTAI REMIS - Your Weekend Getaway

5 THING YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT IT!

1. Location : 35 minutes from SHAH ALAM ~ PANTAI REMIS, JERAM SELANGOR. You may use your GPS/Google Maps to find the right way to reach here. It is also 30 minutes from Bukit Malawati ~ Shah Alam, Selangor.

2. It is local beach that have wet fresh market that sells all seafood such as KERANG, MENTARANG (their own speciality & hard to get at other local market, KEPAH, ALA-ALA, SIPUT SEDUT. Besides that, they also sells locals vegetables and the most important is, IT'S MUCH MOOOORREEE CHEAPER THAN NORMAL MARKET!

Mentarang

3. During weekend, this place will full of tourist from local people who love to bring their families & friends, spending time with them to see the sunset. Other than that, some of them goes for fishing. Unfortunately, all people been advise for not allowed to swim because of too many rocks in the sea.

4. There is no accommodation provides here. Other than that, there is ample parking space for transport provided.

5. There is Public Toilet, Seafood Restaurant with delicious-mouth watering Kerang Bakar, Mentarang Masak Serai, Udang Tepung, etc. YUMMY YUMMY!