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Quaint Village Scenery, Parit Jawa
bpacker Says: A stone altar at the mouth of Kuala Parit Jawa speaks volumes of the superstitious/religious nature of the Chinese Fisherfolk there. Most of them would light a joss stick and mumble a quick prayer before setting out to sea. It pays to pray sometimes, not too long ago, 3...
Feasting on Delicious Seafood in Parit Jawa
bpacker Says: No trip to Parit Jawa is complete without a Seafood feast. There are a number of open-air seafood restaurants over there and most of them serve a delicious local pate known as Otak Otak and grilled fish on banana leaf. You'd need to try the otak otak here to know that it's...
Quaint Village Scenery in Parit Jawa
bpacker Says: A charming Malay kampung house stands surrounded by blooming bougainvillea flowers, and floating fish traps in Parit Jawa.
Quaint Village Scenery in Parit Jawa
bpacker Says: Brightly coloured village temples add on to Parit Jawa's quaint village scenery.
A Mecca for one of the rarest stocks in the world
bpacker Says: Look beyound the mud expanse at Parit Jawa and stare and it for a while. Chances are you'll see one of the rarest storks in the world, the Lesser Adjutant Stock if you're here during the migration months of Oct-Mar. And other rare shore birds like the Great Knot, the...
Beyond the rickety wooden jetty
bpacker Says: And beyond the weather-worn, rickety wooden jetty at the Parit Jawa Fishing Village is a wide, wide expanse of mud, which is exposed at low tide. To the unobservant eye, it's a barren scene but that mud is rich with snails, fish, worms. In short, a buffet for coastal...
Checking out the Fishing Village at Parit Jawa
bpacker Says: One of the hidden charms of Malaysia are the quaint little fishing villages that dot her coastline. Visit any of these villages and you'll discover that each has its own heritage, characteristics and culture. Take Parit Jawa, off Muar, for example, it's more than a hundred...
bpacker Says: The tidal inlet of Kuala Parit Jawa is packed with colourful wooden vessels. Notice the motor in front of the boat, this is characteristic of the boats over here. I reckon it's used for trawling off the shallow, brackish waters of the Straits of Malacca.
l_joo Says: Local peoples said this is a temple with flags, I don't understand what they say, what flags you can do in religious practice. But anyway, this is a very famous local belief that the believers came here to pray to obtain flags and it was famous around. If you have friends...
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Brightly coloured village temples add on to Parit Jawa's quaint village scenery.
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Biking and Birding at Parit Jawa
Now after the success of the last birding and biking trip in Tanjung Tuan, hubby and myself and raring to go up north again. This time round, our destination was Parit Jawa, a little fishing port...
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