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During February, we were invited by our society that we joined during University life to a dinner. Before heading to the dinner, we planned to go to Pulau Kukup in Johor.
Pulau Kukup is located South-west of Johor in Pontian District as a fishing village of Kampung Air Masin in Kukup Laut and it is only a small isolated island from mainland. Pulau Kukup is an island covered by mangrove forest and to protect the mangrove forest, Kukup is a national park under the Johor State Park Corporation Enactment 1989 since 27 March 1997. Pulau Kukup is full with marine life which become the main sources to the income for local fisherman.
How to get there
Visitors can access Kukup town from various direction:
1) Using the North-South Highway, exit at Simpang Renggam toll and turn left towards Benut and proceed to Pontian/Kukup
2) Johor Bahru through Skudai and proceed to Pontian
3) Foreign visitors from Singapore and Indonesia can access the town through ferry services.
(Sources:http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/pulau-kukup-johor/ )
There were 12 of us went from Skudai towards Pulau Kukup, spent around 1 hour 20 minutes by car. When we reached there, we called our agent out and she brought us to the house we rented. They actually prepared some lunch such as fry mee, curry chicken, red bean soup etc. for us but we reached there already late evening and our stomach was full of burger!
It was so hot during February time. We opened the air-condition in the living room and started to think how to kill the time before dinner was prepared. Some of us started to sing karaoke but the songs in the house are not the updated songs. We are hardly to find songs that we liked. Some of the couples started to walk around in the small fishing village. The houses there are built on top of the sea and therefore the toilet in the house for what you pass out, is directly go down to the sea!
When the night falls down, the owner of the house came in a family to barbecue food for us. There were fish, prawn, satay, chicken wings, corn and so on. We felt so full and chit chatting because we seldom met each other after graduated from university. After dinner, the owner will do the cleaning and we continued our entertainment in the house. We sang karaoke, played game, chatting and finally went to bed. Girls only a few therefore we slept inside the room and guys felt that the other rooms are small so they all slept in the living room.
Second day, when we woke up, the owner of the house bought us simple breakfast with kuih and nasi lemak. There was also newspaper for us to read. We can also make the milo ourselves using the hot water in the house. After taking the breakfast, we followed our tour agent to fish farm (kelong).
Located in the seas of Kukup are a lot of fish farms. Beyond just raring fishes, they actually brought tourists to visit their fish farms and since it is located in the seas, we were brought there by ferry. After 20 minutes, we arrived the kelong and the workers in the kelong dredged out a small shark and let us snap photo for the shark. I felt quite pity to the small shark, staying in a small places and everyday she got to be dredged out for few times to let tourists see and hold.
After that, the worker took out a crab known as a Horseshoe Crab. He also put some ikan bilis and tried to show to us how the fish “fishing” the ikan bilis. But maybe the fish were full, they were not interested to the food given. There were also some souvenirs you can buy from the kelong.
This time we not managed to go to the mangrove forest because the facilities inside were under maintainance. After visiting kelong, we waited the ferry to carry us out and we walked back to our house to pack.
After packing, we had a seafood lunch and back to Skudai to attend the dinner organised by our juniors. On the way to take our cars, we also managed to buy the famous “ang gu kuih” in Pulau Kukup. This trip costs us RM 80 per person including
1) Tea time in the first day (or shall I call it as lunch?)
2) Barbecue dinner in the first day
3) Breakfast in the second day
4) Seafood lunch in the second day
5) Overnight in the house with all those entertainments, bathrooms etc.
6) A tour to Kelong
At night, we attended the dinner. That night, our theme that we set for ourselves is red colour. Therefore, we all wore red colour in the night. We were late to the night due to we not familiar with the places and our number were too large. It was hard to arrange our transport towards the night organised in Kulai. In the night, we actually not much time to exchange views and got to know better with juniors. It seemed that we just rush there to have a dinner and then rush back home…
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