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Pulau Ketam or the Crab Island is a small island located off the coast of Port Klang, Klang, Selangor. Majority residents at Pulau Ketam are mainly Teochew and Hoklo (Hokkien) Chinese. It also a fishing village which most of the local work as fishermen. Pulau Ketam is an island of mangrove swamps with a village built on stilts. So you can find a lot of floating houses there.

This was my fist time visit Pulau Ketam. From 9:30am, we reached the Port Klang Jetty and take the speed boat to the island. Around 30 minutes, we reached Pulau Ketam Jetty.

The main thoroughfares are narrow concreted pavements, whilst in the residential areas, the older rickety wooden plank bridges can still be seen. There are no cars in Pulau Ketam, only bicycles, some of which are motorised.

To rent a bicycle, isn't very expensive, it only cost  you RM 5 / day (USD 1.50).  However we decided by foot because was much easier for us to snap.

The first scene you could see is the Pulau Ketam's market. Is just a simple street which the left and right are full of stalls or shops. This place give me a very good lighting during morning whereby the sun ray cross over the roof's cover. Taken a couple of shoots here and hope you like it.

Although the road in the market is very narrow, but the local ride their bicycle across this market almost on every 10 seconds during the morning busy session.  An idea just appeared in my mind was captured the bicycles :) by stationed at the same standing point.

Pulau Ketam Cyclist Slide

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Further down you can find the temple, in here, a lot of temples. This is the one that located at the Pulau Ketam Village's Square.

Hock Leng Keng Temple
One of the biggest temple in Pulau Ketam. The temple is beautiful with intricate sculptures and colorful painting. It celebrates its big events at 28th of 4th Month of Chinese Calendar, with Chinese opera and mini concert.

Beside the temple, you can find a hidden awesome background for your portrait shooting. Have a look on below, the color of the wooden wall, chair and door really full of Chinese Vintage feel. Have some funny shooting as usual.

In here, you can see the river view as well. Was low tide that time, water level not really high.

A fisherman boat parking beside the river.

Then we proceeded to the East Street.

The road sign really full of Made in Hong Kong feel. I saw such design during my Hong Kong street, at the MRT Station.

Follow this way will lead you to the famous Pulau Ketam's lover bridge.

This is the famous lover bridge. However today wasn't for lover, a group photo would be more interesting.

Nang Thiam Keng Temple
The Nang Thiam Keng Hall is a common place for holding wedding dinners. In 6th of 6th Month of Chinese Calendar is the God's birthday. This is a big event here. A celebration of at least 14 days of Chinese Opera and Mini Concert make the nights more lively and energetic. Every 3 years, the committee board of the temple will organize the ritual of "Gods Patrol and blessing the island". The event will be attended by many temple's "God" together and "They" walk around the town, patrolling the sea, and guarding the island.
Source from PulauKetam.com

This giant turtle believed to bring people luck. If you want to hit Toto or 1+3D, do touch the turtle and pray yah :D.

Ship Yard, an old ship yard worker are working on a new boat. According to him, this business will discontinue soon because the young generation are not keen to take over the business. Most of the youngster are migrated to town and work there.

Majority houses here can give you a very good composition for photography. That's why I called it a wonderful place for photography. Further more, the residents are get used to tourist, you can simply snap anyone, any where you liked.

The salty fish factory, too bad, this was the only salty fish can be found on that day. The factory owner told us we got to wait till tomorrow for the next batch of the salty fish processing.

As conclusion, Pulau Ketam is a nice place for a day trip to feel the unique lifestyle of Chinese Fishmermen and feel the cycling fun if your skill is good.

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