There are far better places for picnics in Taiping - Places like Burmese Pool or Austin Pool near town are easily accessible and brooks with sparkling clear water there beckon. It would probably turn you off if you think about having to travel all the way to Kuala Sepetang and then having to hire a boat to reach the rather isolated Kalumpang Island where there is no fresh water in sight, not unless you pump it out of the ground. Nevertheless, it is not wise to underestimate Kalumpang Island for this is also an island where local archaelogists tread to trace the roots of the early Malays Here the archaelogists have dug the earth and got excited over the discovery of some charcoal, a wooden pillar of a house and what's more - eleven skeletons believed to have lived in the second to tenth century. Our guide claimed that he was there when the skeleton were excavated and the skeletons all bore signs of having their skull crushed before being buried under the house! Man has always been strange!
Would you like to take a peep at the past?
Would you like to take a peep at the past?
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