We came back to Pulau Ketam again. Usually we would park our car at the Subang Jaya KTM Station and took the KTM from Subang to Port Klang, a journey of nearly an hour each way.
This time, we were bringing Kinki go together with us, thus we have to drive the car to the Jetty Point and parked our car at the parking area. We walked to the Jetty Point, the ferry leaves every 45 minutes to one hour, from 7:00am to around 7:00pm.
We took the speed boat, and it is a bit expensive than the normal ferry. But, the experience and feelings of the wind blowing to your face during the boat on their way to the Pulau Ketam.
This time around, we stayed at Pulau Ketam Inn. The room is quite cramp but it is ok as long as they have air-conditioning.
We did not purposely make reservations up front as there is almost always something available. Just worst case scenario, is that we take the last boat back to Port Klang only.
Main reason why tourists visit Pulau Ketam is of course to enjoy a fantastic meal at one of the many great seafood restaurants.
Usually one will find a big bucket full with live crabs in front of every restaurant during lunch time. If you are staying over for the night, make sure you head over to the restaurants in time as all the fresh seafood is often already finished later in the evening.
The islands' specialty is crab. There are a few restaurant on the island, thus we tried different restaurant during our breakfast, lunch and dinner time. The breakfast would be just ok only, but as the lunch and dinner, we were satisfying for the value for money meals. Of coarse, Pulau Ketam had become a tourists destination, thus it would be in tourists’ price too.
The island is characterized by the houses built on stilts; it is a so-called water village. They are built in such a way that it almost looks like the houses float.
Pulau Ketam only consists of two small villages on stilts and not much more. The biggest part of the island is only accessible by boat because of the swampland and mangroves. Main activities are walking around in the village, or biking through the village on a rental bicycle.
We did the walking and had great fun. The village is not that big, but it still takes over an hour to explore the whole area.
During the trip we took a few stops to enjoy the scenery, views or a snack that is sold at every corner of the village. We pass by the one and only bank in the island – Maybank. Kids were asking Daddy to buy for them the wind wheel to play.
We did visit the fishermen cold storage areas where they take off or parking their boats, and the place they cold store their fish after come back from sea. At that point of time, there weren’t anybody at the dock, we just sat at the area and see the views of the villages.
During our walking trip we drove past a wooden fishing boat factory; the owner builds these wooden boats (almost solely) by hand. There also are two Chinese temples; Nang Thiam Keng Temple and Hock Leng Keng Temple and many small altars scattered throughout the village. Most other activities involve eating at the many seafood restaurants, where regular dishes are also being served.
Overall a good trip for both children, as they able to spend some valuable time with Daddy. I noted that he keep on looking at his hand phone…Well, just a short trip for both children…
