Sunday, October 27, 2013

Bukit Melawati 2012

Over the weekend, we drove an hour to Bukit Melawati with my family

Tourist train at Bukit Melawati

The next tourist train to operate is another 2 hours.. So we went walking around the shops nearby


Breakfast at Auntie Kopitiam
Address:  C-3 , Jalan Sultan Ibrahim, 45 000 Kuala Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia.

Ordered kaya butter toast. 


The train is here!



Silver-leafed monkeys

There were so many of them!


Poisoned Well
The well contains water poisoned from a maxture of latex itchy bamboo shoots. Poisoned Well was used to torture traitors where they were placed inside the well with the water level reaching their chin.
Source: 
http://www.kuala-selangor.com/bukit-melawati-kuala-selangor.html

The Lighthouse

Baitulhilal at Bukit Melawati, Kuala Selangor. A simple latticed structure was constructed at Bukit Melawati for the purpose of sighting the "new moon" to determine the strat of Ramadan (the fasting month for Muslims), Syawal (end of fasting celebration for the Muslim) and Hari Raya Haji.
Source: 
http://www.kuala-selangor.com/bukit-melawati-kuala-selangor.html


Cannons on Bukit Melawati






My sister with a monkey. Similar?














Time to bid goodbye to Bukit Melawati

Next, we went to Sekinchan. Nothing special. Just paddy fields








Sunset at Setia City Mall car park 


The big fountain in front of the shopping mall

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