Peace be upon you this Friday. Entering the 7th day of the Sumatera trip 25 January - 1 February...
Tuesday 31st January 2017. From Pekanbaru I went to the town of Pengkalan Kerinchi.
Actually I wanted to get to the centre of an old kingdom called Pelalawan, I took a public transport van from Pekanbaru asking if the driver goes to Kota (town of) Pelawan, He said yes and I just followed suit.
When I was asked to drop down saying I have arrived at my preferred destination then only I realised there was a misunderstanding.
For the record the kingdom of Pelalawan has ceased to exist. Taking its place is the modern district of Pelalawan.
Later did I understand then when I asked to go to Kota Pelalawan most people take that as referring to the Pelalawan district capital town. Its real name is Pengkalan Kerinchi but it is also popular known as Kota Pelalawan...
If one wants to go to the old Kota Pelalawan, capital of the kingdom of Pelalawan then one should ask for kecamatan (sub-district of) Pelalawan, not Kota (town of city of) Pelalawan.
I was told the old Pelalawan is now just a village. Kecamatan in this context literarily refers to countryside Pelalawan.
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Anyway from Pengkalan Kerinchi which is effectively the new Pelalawan I got a trishaw bike to get to old Pelalawan.
It was a 40km + travel through the countryside, palm estates and such with not much modern building in sight.
At this juncture I have arrived in old Pelalawan...
The mosque seen in this picture is a remnant of the centre of the Pelalawan kingdom which ceased to exist in 1946.
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