Sungai Pahang before Chenor water festival 2016 part II

Continuing from Sungai Pahang before Chenor water festival 2016 part I.

About 200 metres downstream lies the main jetty of Chenor old town.

I understand the water activities or rather water sports lined up for the water festival is centred around here.

Looking ahead and across one could see a long sandbank indicating the water level was indeed lower than normal.

Thank God the water along banks besides the old town is much deeper. So the organisers can be rest assured that the festival can be held up to its full original intent, God willing...

Sungai Pahang before Chenor water festival 2016 part I

Continuing from Around the water festival at Chenor old town.

I've said that the Chenor old town is situated along and close to the Pahang river. So here's looking at the river.

Since the annual water festival was scheduled to be held on 14-15 May 2016 there were concerns that the water level might be too low to conduct waters activities like boat race and such, This is due to the extreme dry season which has ravaged many parts of Peninsular Malaysia the last 2-3 months. Then again it has been raining cats and dogs in many places the last 2-3 days...

From what I can see the water level looks good enough. While I noticed that it was lower than what I know (or assume?) to be normal it should be sufficient to conduct all the scheduled activities, God willing...

Around the water festival at Chenor old town

Continuing from Kampung Bunian at Chenor, the elfin village?...

To close the day's activities I went to Chenor old town to check the happenings there.

I had late lunch at local stall then a nap at small town's old mosque. It was after 3.30pm that I started to really have a close look around.

Stalls were abound selling all sorts of goods.

For the record they were preparing for an event called Pesta Air Chenor, the water festival of Chenor.

The old town is situated along and close to the Pahang river.

List of activities. The festival was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday 14-15 May. But I came to check the going-ons on Friday as I must return home to attend a function in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday...

Kampung Bunian at Chenor, the elfin village?

Continuing from Temerloh signboard and the current extended sandbank...

Next I went to Chenor about 30 km east of Temerloh to look at the preparations for a certain festival there. On the way to old town Chenor there is a place called Kampung (village of) Bunian. I have been curious about it for some time and decided to have a look.

You see, Bunian is a Malay word referring to supernatural creatures much live elves in English and European folklores. They are reported to live in another dimension which could not bee seen by humans being but could be accessed by those with knowledge.

However there are many stories about of people accidently entering the Bunian world and spending time before they were returned to the normal world. The stories always mention the existence of Kampung Bunian. which could literally be translated village of the elves!

So how do you expect a Malay like me to react when there is a place officially called Kampung Bunian in Chenor? I have passed the entry point a number of times on the way to Chenor old town but this is the first time I decided to explore.

What I found was large tracts of plantations and few houses situated quite far from each other. It is only when I reached a part closing in on Chenor new town that the houses are situated close to each other.

Anyway I entered via a small rural road but came out from another road closer to new Chenor.

Not satisfied I ventured in again to catch the following pictures...

Temerloh signboard and the current extended sandbank...

Continuing from Pahang river at Teluk Ira - Remnants of the recent extreme dry season?

Going further south I finally arrived at the place I wanted to visit most for the day.

Situated right across the town of Temerloh it is probably the place most pronounced as being affected by extreme dry season of the last 2-3 months.

By right the sand should all by under water, under normal circumstances that is.

But the extreme dry season had caused the Pahang river to dry up at many places to the extent that the locals could built resting huts at parts which are situated close to the middle of the river on normal days...

Still there seems to be plenty of water around.

I say this because in the previous 2-3 weeks I've seen pictures on Facebook taken at angles that seemed to imply that the Pahang river had totally dried up at these parts...

Well yes, I could see water level is down but to say the river has totally dried up? That is quite an exaggeration.

Then again I came when it has rained heavily the last 2-3 days.

So the effect of extreme season might not be as pronounced as it was days before that. For the record the normal water level should be at the foot of the green green grass...