The trip was intended to be made up to Tanjung Malim, the town at the border of the states of Perak and Selangor. We stopped at Kuala Kubu Baru in Selangor on the way...
Another view of Kuala Kubu Baru...
We stopped at a food-stall for launch. It happened that there's free wi-fi Internet signal there. So I decided to check out what's on the World Wide Web.
Oh... While in Kuala Kubu Baru, we also visited an old mosque there. Click Masjid (mosque of) Ampang Pecah for the story...
I can't remember where this is. We are heading for Tanjung Malim when I saw this mosque not far from the main road and asked Zaidi to turn the car back so I could snap this picture...
Soon enough we arrived in Tanjung Malim. The main reason I asked Zaidi to join me there is to visit an old mosque which is actually situated across the border in the Selangor side. The story has been told in Masjid Sheikh Ismail di Ulu Bernama (The mosque of Sheikh Ismail in Ulu Bernam) .
Then I felt that we should go on further into Perak... Next stop is Sungkai. Zaidi snapped the picture above with the main range Banjaran Titiwangsa in the background as we were about to leave Tanjung Malim...
At Sungkai, we stopped at the old mosque for Maghrib prayers... The inscription says the mosque was built in 1933...
A view inside the Sungkai old mosque...
We tried to catch the picture from outside but Zaidi's budget video-camera needs more light to catch better pictures...
At least we managed to record this inscription saying how the mosque was used as a meeting place for some Malay nationalists to organise an effort to ask for the independence of Malaysia, then known as Tanah Melayu, the Malay lands...
We decide to press further into Perak and head for Teluk Intan. For dinner, we stopped at this old Malay house in Bidor which has been turned into a restaurant...
The leaning clock tower of Teluk Intan. This picture is taken the next day, after spending the night at the old mosque of Batak Rabit... For a story on the mosque, click Masjid lama Batak Rabit (The old mosque of Batak Rabit)...
While going around in Teluk Intan, we found this curious looking picture which looks like a Malay nobleman worshipped at a Chinese temple...
Nearby that temple, we found pictures of these 'elders' worshipped by a Chinese family. But that's beside the point...
This particular trip to Perak was intended to be made just up to Tanjung Malim, about 70km away from Kuala Lumpur but we ended up in Teluk Intan some 100km further.
Anyway that wraps up this current session of writing. God willing, after this, I will feature my old writings on a hitchiking trip made in Europe in 1995. Cheers! :]
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