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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 fishermen from Parit Jawa nearly died in the choppy waters off the Straits of Melaka when a bigger ship rammed into their fishing vessel. Fortunately, they survived.
Updated Oct 26, 2006
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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 the best! A spicy concoction that is chockful of fresh fish, grilled in a nest of banana leaves under a charcoal fire till its fragrant...need I say more?
Written Oct 25, 2006
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A charming Malay kampung house stands surrounded by blooming bougainvillea flowers, and floating fish traps in Parit Jawa.
Written Oct 25, 2006
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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 Eurasian Curlew. Enlarge this picture and try to see if you can spot any birds!
Updated Oct 25, 2006
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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 gourmands like mudskippers, water snakes and monitorn lizards and a wide variety of birds.
Written Oct 25, 2006
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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 years old and it was named by their founding fathers from the Indonesian Island of Jawa. Hokkien fishermen from China settled down much later and eke out a living from the daily catches and drying/salting the excess fish. Life is pretty much the same today. If you bother to take the one kilometre route from the crumbling town down to the Chinese Fishing Village, you'll see colourful fishing boats by the rickety wooden jetty.
Updated Oct 25, 2006
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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.
Written Oct 25, 2006
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 living in Johor, try ask them what flags are for? As you can see from here a Taoist Eight Diagrams but when you walked inside the door, at right table, you can see they put some Buddhist sutras/booklets, while at the front, you have multiple highly commercial incense-sticks for sale together with latest religious products in modern packagings.
Updated Jul 21, 2005
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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