A Traveller's Tale: A Boat Ride

Not all the houses in Kuala Sepetang stand on stilts. When you come from Taiping, you'd get to pass a little town called Matang. Here, you may get to see houses on stilts but these are traditional Malay houses. In Kuala Sepetang, you would get to see more of single storey plank houses with cemented floor. If it is the stilt houses of Chinese fishermen you want to see, then you ought to take a boat ride across the river. Kuala Sepetang is situated at the estuary of a river. The town centre is at one side of the river while the houses on stilts are on the marshland on the opposite bank. The boat ride just costs ten sen, that's even less than five American cents. You don't to get a nice seat in the little boat and most probably, you would want to stand especially since the ride would last not even a minute. When you reach the other bank, you can just throw your dime into a container provided by the boatman. He wouldn't blink or even check if you have deposited the correct amount. Money is not everything!

Would you enjoy this boat ride?






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