Yeah‼️ This round, SiennyLovesDrawing 👩🏻 is gonna sharing about her recent eco tourism trip to Pulau Kukup 🌴& Tanjung Piai 🌿 The 2️⃣ of the Johor National Parks located at Southern Johor of West Malaysia 🇲🇾
Pulau Kukup Johor National Park
As shared in earlier blog post📝, Pulau Kukup 🌴 is just 2️⃣0️⃣km away from her stay at Aloha Hotel Pontian🏢 So, after breakfast🍽☕️, SiennyLovesDrawing 👩🏻 & her writers gang 👫👭👬departed with Sitty Travel 🚐 to jetty ⚓️ (shown in photo below, yes, it’s through this seafood 🐟🦐🦀🐙🦑restaurant🍽🍴)
Then, a short boat 🚤 ride (2️⃣0️⃣mins, RM5️⃣/pax for return trip 🚤🚤 & free 🆓 for kids below 6 years old 👶🏻👧🏻🧒🏻👦🏻) to Pulau Kukup 🌴
Arrived & enjoyed a slight sweaty 😅morning 🔆🔅 2️⃣km mangroves trail walk 🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♂️here😀
Yeah‼️ The highest 👆🏻stilt roots & largest Hibrid Mangrove in Malaysia 🇲🇾
In Jan 2003, this mangrove island, an ecological treasure trove was granted with the status of a🎖 Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Convention Site), by the Geneva-based Ramsar Convention Bureau👏🏻
If you are a bird 🦅🐦 lovers❤️, do visit here for the seasonal migratory bird 🦅🐦 watching 🔭spectacle
Pulau Kukup 🌴 encompases 3️⃣ villages i.e. Kukup Laut, Air Masin & Kampung Melayu. It’s essentially a fishing 🎣 village which is famous for seafood🦀🦐🦑🐙🐟, local produced shrimp 🦐 paste (aka belacan in Malaysia’s 🇲🇾 national language), salted fish🐟, dried shrimps🦐, cage cultured fish 🐟 farms etc.
Do enjoy a short clip 📹🎥 captured from her recent trip there😉
There is also another ferry ⛴ jetty ⚓️ & immigration checkpoint to Batam Island & Karimun Island of Indonesia 🇮🇩
Let’s plan your visit to this nature reserve mangroves island ya 🤩
Address📍: Lot 139, Mukim Air Masin, 82300 Kukup, Pontian, Johor, West Malaysia
Operating hours🕘: 9am to 5pm daily (Last entry 4pm)
Website🌐: http://www.johornationalparks.gov.my/v3/pulau-kukup/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Pulau-Kukup-Johor-National-Park-291826154254817/
Yeah‼️ Time for lunch 🍽🍴1️⃣st before the next destination of the day❗️😄
Hmm…Where❓⁉️
It’s at Johor Riau Restaurant 🍽🍴which served Malay seafood 🦀🦐🦑🐙🐟cuisine with Johor style😋🤤
Wow‼️Many many seafood 🦀🦑🐙🦐🐟 dishes served‼️SiennyLovesDrawing’s 👩🏻 happy face 😁 as a food lover 😋🤤 Ha…Ha…
All dishes were so fresh & delicious👍🏻, highly recommended 👆🏻to dine 🍽 here if you are on your way to visit Tanjung Piai🌿
Why❓⁉️
It’s just so so near to it, or should say you will definitely passby Johor Riau on your way to Tanjung Piai🌿
She learnt that as Johor tradition, almost all Johor restaurants 🍽🍴especially seafood 🦀🦑🐙🦐🐟restaurants will definitely served Horseshoe Crab aka Belangkas in Malaysia’s 🇲🇾 national language
Curious about how it looks like❓⁉️Do stay tune for her next post 👩🏻💻📝where she will be sharing her visit to horseshoe crab conservation centre😉
It’s her 1️⃣st time to taste horseshoe crab & she loves 💗 it❗️Johor Riau served it in “lemak cili padi🌶” (Malaysia’s 🇲🇾 national language) cooking style👨🏻🍳👩🏻🍳
Guess what❓⁉️
There is no crab meat to enjoy, instead enjoy the delicious crunchy 😋🤤 crab roes/ eggs of it🙂
Another dish that she loves 💗 from Johor Riau is the seafood otak-otak (another signature Johor dish) served here👆🏻👍🏻
It’s so delicious with its unique Johor recipe with dried coconut 🥥 🌴 in it. A mouthful of light coconut 🥥 fragrant blended well with the fresh seafood 🦐🐟 ingredients❗️Tastebud satisfied❗️😃
How about other seafood 🦀🦑🐙🦐🐟 dishes enjoyed❓⁉️
- Soup Riau 🍲 (served with crabs🦀 )
- Spicy 🌶 sour fish 🐟 (aka “ikan asam pedas” in Malaysia’s 🇲🇾national language)
- Spices cooked snails 🐌 (aka siput sedut berempah)
- Black pepper clams
- Malay style salad 🥗 aka ulam
- Fish 🐟 served in “Bebotok” style
Do enjoy a short clip 📹🎥 captured from her Johor style seafood 🦑🐙🦐🦀🐟 dining 🍽🍴here ☺️
Hmm…Hope you all don’t craving 🤤🤤 for seafood 🦑🐙🦐🦀🐟 after watching 👀👁👁 ya
Address📍: J48, Tanjung Piai, 82300 Kukup, Johor, West Malaysia
Operating hours🕚: 11am to 12am daily, except ⛔️ Monday
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Johoriau/
Yeah‼️ After a satisfied 😃👍🏻😋delicious lunch🍽🍴, happily travelling 🚐 to…
Tanjung Piai 🌿National Park
Wow‼️ This welcome landmark monument made of eco-friendly fibre reinforced concrete with 2️⃣0️⃣m height & 🔟m width. Its stark grey ◻️ colour represents the rich mangroves & mudflats of Tanjung Piai🌿
1️⃣st photo 📸 captured before another eco walk🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♂️here
Hmm…Why Piai❓⁉️
It’s named after a local fern 🌿 plant aka Paku Piai 🌿 in Malaysia’s 🇲🇾national language. This plant is capable of living in brackish water conditions i.e. scattered in this park🙂
Tanjung Piai 🌿 is the southern most point of Peninsular Malaysia 🇲🇾 & the southern most tip of Mainland Asia 🌎too with the borders of shorelines of Malaysia 🇲🇾 , Indonesia 🇮🇩 & Singapore 🇸🇬
Lots of tourists 👫👭👬 travelling to here, just to capture a photo 📸 with this globe 🌐 shaped monument & plaque which marked the southernmost point😍
Guess what❓⁉️
Tanjung Piai 🌿 as a coastal mangrove also being granted in Jan 2003 with the status🎖of an internationally important Ramsar Convention site👏🏻
It has high socio-economic value for fisheries 🐟🐟 especially mudskippers aka ikan belacak in Malaysia’s 🇲🇾national language😀
The national park officers 👩🏻💼👨🏻💼shared about the breeding story of mudskippers🐟. Apparently the male 🚹🐟 mudskippers need to build a mud house 🏠 (refer photo 📸 below) to attract the female 🚺🐟mudskippers. Ha…Ha…Interesting facts learnt😅😂🤣
Address📍: Tanjung Piai Johor National Park, 82030 Mukim Serkat, Pontian, Johor, West Malaysia
Website🌐: http://www.johornationalparks.gov.my/v3/tanjung-piai/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/tnjtanjungpiaiofficialpage/
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The mudskippers hunting for lover story really interesting one, great places for eco tourism
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Ha…Ha…Absolutely agree with you, am impressed with this story sharing by the officers too 🙂 Learnt it 😀
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Have not been for a mangroves walk, would like to keep this in my list when I travel to Asia next year. The largest stilt root seems interesting
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Yeah! Both Pulau Kukup & Tanjung Piai with great effort of keeping well the mangroves, definitely worth a visit ya 😀
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very nice!
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Wow! Thank you Dboy for your compliments ya 😁😃
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Cuidado! Aumento no número de visitas. Obrigada!!
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I actually google translated your comment here & got your message of “Watch out! Increase in number of visits. Thanks!!” 🙂 Thanks for your compliments & reading my sharing here 🙂
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Am planning my solo travel to Malaysia this year, will include some places from your blog
The mudskipper story is interesting
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Yeah! Welcome to Malaysia & enjoy your solo travelling too. Feel free to ask me any questions for your Malaysia trip planning. You can either leave comment here or drop me email to siennylovesdrawing@outlook.com 🙂 Happy to help wherever I can 🙂
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I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I don’t know who you are but definitely you’re going to a famous blogger if you are not already 😉 Cheers!
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Thanks for your compliments & welcome to dropby my blog more often ya 🙂
I am sharing my own experiences, will sure continue to deliver my best in my blogging passion 😀
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