Fascination with rivers - the overall picture

OK. Time to have a closing piece before putting the relevant materials and links on to the side bar. Continued from Fascination with rivers - the other places.

Satellite pix of Muar river with terrain simulation courtesy of Google Earth. In the background could be seen the famous mystical mountain, Gunung Ledang...

There. After spending plenty of solid hours preparing maps with pointers, gathering materials including links to the relevant articles in fact making quite a number of amendments today after having posted earlier resulting stories last night till early morning only could I make this closing story on the subject of "Fascination for rivers". If yesterday I have chosen 26 rivers along the coast of Peninsular Malaysia to be listed today I've added another 4 and thus have to make the necessary changes and addition to both the maps and stories. I've also made an article gathering past stories on a river in Aceh and 2 in Brunei. This should be complete for now and God willing I will add stories on other rivers in the future before putting it directly on the sidebar. Do have a look at what is currently being featured though. Here are the links to the articles created. For the record this is the 636th article in this blogspot.

1. Fascination with rivers - Intro

2. Fascination with rivers - North East Coast

3. Fascination with rivers - Middle West Coast

4. Fascination with rivers – the South

5. Fascination with rivers - the East Coast

6. Fascination with rivers - other places

Fascination with rivers - other places

Continuing from Fascination with rivers - the East Coast

Since we are still on the subject of rivers, let us also feature those outside Malaysia. I've walked along the lengths of such reknowned rivers like the Thames in London, the Seine in Paris, the Rhine at Frankfurt and Mainz, the Danube at the outskirts of Vienna and the Elbe in Dresden, east of Germany but sadly I didn't keep pictures of those times.

I only seriously started taking pictures of my travels after the remains of my great great great grandfather of mine Laksamana (royal admiral) Muhammad Amin was brought back from exile in Singapore to be reburied at the Perak royal mausoleum in Bukit Chandan 9 September 2006. Look at the old article The return of Admiral Muhammad Amin's remains to the royal mausoleum of Perak. You see I attended the ceremony and a friend asked me to take pictures and write an article for his publication. Soon I started blogging and the rest is history.

It's just since that I've travelled not so far overseas. My forays where limited mainly to Aceh, Singapore, parts of southern Thailand and Brunei. During those visits I was mainly concerned in finding tombs of outstanding personalities of olden days such as that of kings and saints apart from old mosque and place with historical value. Thus forgive me if I lack emphasis on other things.

Still never mind... I do have some materials on rivers made into articles albeit not so extensive. These should be relevant enough to our current topic "Fascination for rivers"...

Aceh

Despite the fact that I've been to Aceh 4 times and travelled far across its landscape I have only two articles to present and even that only on one river. God willing if I have the opportunity to go there again I would make amends.

1. Aceh river

From Syiah Kuala to Kreung Aceh...

To Lamuri and the fortress of Indrapatra...

Brunei

In contrast to my take on Aceh, I've paid more attention to the freshwater network of Brunei. Perhaps the fact that they have what they claimed as the biggest water settlement in the world helps. They also have at least one beautiful location of a tomb close besides a river...

2. Brunei river

Tomb of the pious king at Luba

The beauty of Luba

Boat ride at Kampung Ayer

Boat ride at Kampung Ayer continued...

Tamu Kianggeh from the boat

The island called Pulau Chermin

3. Belait river

The river that gives name to Kuala Belait