23rd – 25th May 2020
It has been quite a while since I last went on touring, my loosen muscles are calling. With the long holiday, decided to plan an easy, a 100 kilometres route from Kuala Lumpur to Sekinchan. But we didn’t do the whole 100 kilometres, we took a train to Klang that saved us 22 kilometres of ride under the hot sun.
7:00AM we were at Petaling KTM station and hopped on the 7:30AM train, tickets to Klang is about RM2.00 for passengers and additional RM2.00 for bicycle. It’s a slow train, hence it took us 30 minutes to arrive at Klang Station. Actually, it’s almost the same time if we were to ride there. Only small bikes like foldable bikes is allowed, big bikes like mountain and road bikes are prohibited.
After our Malaysia famous coconut rice breakfast and my must-have-in-the-morning kopi (Local Asian coffee) at Klang, the wheels hit the road at about 9:00am. Our dear leader, Giek, chose to ride through the Malay Village road, Jalan Keretapi Lama (Old Train Road) instead of route 5 – the main road from Klang, and out to route 5 at Kapar Road to avoid the high traffic at route 5 Klang. However, this route did not have much scenery and worse still without shades, many sections of road where we didn’t see a side stall for many kilometres. Oh yes, we got baptized again, the baptism of fire from the sun, we were expose to the direct hot sun.
Thankfully, along the way we came to this small unique fishing village, Sasaran. The locals turned this village into an art centre of Malaysia, to promote the understanding of art to the public. Many artists including artists from other countries had made this place their base. Every year the villager will conduct an International Art Festival, artists from other countries will come to perform their art works, all the stays and food will be supplied by the villagers for free. There is an Art Park just beside the main road, and if you would walk into the village, you will see many art works. There is another famous attraction – Sky Mirror. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to book a trip as tourism is closed due to Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) and also the long holiday break.
After Sasaran, another fishing village – Kuala Selangor. The landmark of Kuala Selangor is Bukit Melawati, some called it “monkey hill” because you will see monkeys more than human. But they are harmless, neither friendly. They will dash to you and steal your belongings.
Must not forget the seafood at Kuala Selangor.
Finally…Sekinchan (Pic: Von The Pony in paddy rice field)
Sekinchan, the rice bowl of Malaysia, also a fishing village. The main business of this village is paddy farming and paddy processing. The vast view of paddy fields attracted million of visitors every year. Fresh seafood is another reason to draw people from other states every weekend and holidays.
Sekinchan is a very nice town to take a slow stroll due to it’s flat terrain. But, when weather is too beautiful, you will ride under a scorching hot sun with minimal trees around the paddy fields. But, you will get plenty of beautiful photos of green fields and blue skies and even golden fields when paddy is near to harvesting.
That’s all folks….
Crazy Old Horse 