After visiting Kalumpang Island, you'd still have energy yet to take a boat ride. You'd be tempted to ride out to the open sea but then, at the river mouth, you'd just stop to explore a Chinese fishing community at Kuala Sangga. At the end of 19th and early 20th century, a group of Chinese from Teochow, China had started to settle here. They built houses on stilts along the coastline. There is no water supply here and people, till this day, depend on rain for water. There is no electricity too at present, no police station or health care centre either but there is a school and even a 100-year- old Catholic church! The early Chinese here were Catholics but even though there are no Catholics here now, the locals maintain the church and offer fruits on the first and fifteenth of each month of the lunar calendar. Not too long ago, someone even started a floating chalet in Kuala Sangga. We didn't stop to explore Kuala Sangga but had tried to locate the church from where we were in the boat. The floating chalet stood alone in the estuary and it was easier to locate it. Sometimes, it's good to stand alone!
Kuala Sangga...Can you locate the floating chalet?
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