Views from on top of Muar town...

Greetings their readers! In my haste to close the stories about the travels in Johor, I forgot about a set of pictures with stories to be told too, pictures taken on the very day before going to Gunung Ledang... So let me present this pictorial story ya... For the sake of proper chronological order, please bear in mind this story should be slotted here before the article A quick trip up Gunung Ledang... and Tangkak, the textile town! . Here goes...

This is the 12-storey high Umno Pagoh building in the town of Muar... At least that's what the authorities said... 12-storey high but I'm sure I've counted the floors to be more than 13. Whatever, for a long time, since 1982 if I remember correctly, it is the highest building in Muar. So every once in a while, I would take the opportunity to sneak up until the very top floor, the rooftop in fact... Not just that but also on top of the hut housing the elevator machine just to get an awesome view of the town and Muar and the surroundings.

Now, it has been a while since I went up on top. On the very day I set up to go to Gunung Ledang, I had a drink at a stall not far from the building and just can't help going up. So here are the pictures...

Too bad, the door leading up the rooftop is locked. And nowadays, one is not as free as before to venture inside the building as it is now a private hotel. Nevertheless I took the risk of going up and thank God, I went in unnoticed. This is the first view I took from the highest floor inside the building, the estuary of the Muar river...

Muar's second main mosque just across the river...

The other side of the estuary... On a clear day, one might actually see the taller buildings in the city of Melaka some 40km away at the far end of the left horizon...

The old Muar bridge...

The bridge along with the town of Muar...

The town itself... Do not mind the circle seen in the picture as it is something that came out of my cheap digital camera... It seems there's some sort of particle inside the lense which would move around once in while... Or perhaps in this case, it moved to create the circle because God wanted to point out to something in the horizon? Not impossible...

And lastly a picture with Muar's current tallest building in the background, if I'm not mistaken, an apartment building almost 20-storey high. In the middle horizon is Bukit Mor, a hill with its own history right beside the small town of Parit Jawa.

God willing, after this I will write a story featuring the hill among others for the blogspot CATATAN SI MERAH SILU . Oh, and come the time, God willing too I will write a pictorial story here featuring some nice pictures taken from the 100 plus metre high telecommunication tower in Alor Setar, Kedah. Cheers! :]