Perak : Parit Buntar Fishing Villages 2014

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Perak : Parit Buntar Fishing Villages 2014

Kuala Lumpur-Parit Buntar-Kuala Sepetang-Taiping-Ipoh : 5th-7th September 2014

Medium Group Bike Packing : Kuala Lumpur>by train>Parit Buntar>Tanjung Piandang>Kuala Gula>by boat>Kuala Sangga>by boat>Kuala Sepetang>Taiping>by bus>Ipoh.

PRELUDE

Map of the proposed route

KT Wong has organised a ride that will take a route through fishing villages in Perak, starting from Parit Buntar. Many of us were keen to join in, to see those villages with their colourful sceneries of boats, rivers and padi fields. What attracted me also is that it will be a multi-mode adventure that will include train rides, boat rides and a bus ride too; and all this with our bikes tagging along. We will be taking a train from Kuala Lumpur to Parit Buntar to kick off the ride. Somewhere in between we will be onto boats from Kuala Gula to Kuala Sangga to Kuala Sepetang, where we will stay a night. A chartered bus will take us from Taiping to Ipoh from there we will take a train back to Kuala Lumpur. Wow!... this will be interesting and educational. And this is truly a multi-mode bike-packing - train, cycling, bus.
Eventhough this ride will cover only three days; there were 19 of us, a fairly large group, so it was no easy task to be the organizer. Train tickets had to be purchased, boats and a bus had to be chartered; and accommodations at Kuala Sepetang had to be booked. On top of that, foodie places and interesting places to visit will have to be researched (Yes, we did visit more than just seeing the fishing villages). I must take my hat off to KT for planning and orchestrating this ride well, there were only a couple of minor glitches. KT blogs to see his blogs at The Great Outdoors.

Below are my blogs, enjoy!

Parit Buntar Fishing Villages Day 1 - 5th September 2014

We kicked off our adventure with an overnight train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Parit Buntar.

Parit Buntar Fishing Villages Day 2 Pt.1 - 6th September2014

Eager to ride, we started off early and experienced a wet but beautiful ride in dawn's early light.

Parit Buntar Fishing Villages Day 2 Pt.2 - 6th September 2014

In Kuala Kurau we found great food and welcoming, warms hosts. And after that a ride on speeding boats to a pirate's haunt.

Parit Buntar Fishing Villages Day 2 Pt.3 - 6th September 2014

A second boat ride took us from Kuala Sangga to Kuala Sepetang where we ended the ride for the day and stayed at the Happy 8 Retreat.

Parit Buntar Fishing Villages Day 3 Pt.1 - 7th September 2014

From Kuala Sepetang we cycled along a road built over the old railway to Taiping, stopping to visit three factories & ending our ride at the Taiping Lake Gardens where we boarded a bus for Ipoh.

Parit Buntar Fishing Villages Day 3 Pt.2 - 7th September 2014

A quick spin around Ipoh City centre with a couple of eats and visits to Art Street and the Kinta riverside.

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