Part Two - White Water Rafting

So off we headed to Kampung Chui Chak, Langkap, Perak. The village is made up mainly of ethnic Chinese, mostly from the Hakka dialect group.

With Wase we were headed to the right direction.   Along the way the view was beautiful and so serene, the whole way were paddy fields…..luas terbentang....how far it was? phew sejauh mata memandang. This reminded me of a song by Sudirman.
 

Sawah terbentang dan padi menguning 
daun nyiur melambai angin timur membelai
riak air di kali bagaikan bersedia
membasuhi tubuh mu dari debu kota.

Sayu-sayu terdengar merdu suara seruling

Mendendangkan lagu anak desa

Humming the tune as I digest the yellow/green scenery of the paddy fields. Ada lagi tempat macam ni kat Perak kan....the feeling was indescribable.  A sense of peacefulness. Alhamdulillah rasa besar sungguh kurnian Allah...speechless  but deep inside singing Je T'aime!....Je T'aime! running across the paddy field and have Van Diesel catching up with me, scooping me up with his muscular arms.. ...then.....on second thought, eerrrk tak pe la....bila teringatkat pacat and lintah...hehehe...

Berangan punya berangan,...somehow we missed Chui Chak.....we should arrived after 3 km from the main road. We thought we were there but again, signage is nowhere to be seen.

So we lost Kampung Chui Chak and we were determined to locate the next town, Kampung Mak Teh...and we drove off. Along the way we discovered Kampung Changkat Petai,....I'll be damned! I've heard of Changkat Jong, I've also heard Changkat Jering, but Changkai Petai? We got out of the car and snapped a few pictures and continued to search for Kampung Mak Teh...

Kampung Changkat Petai. How unusual,...mesti banyak pokok petai kat sini agak nya. True enough this place has a lot of Petai trees...it has medicinal effect in controlling diabetes.

 In our quest to locate Kampung Mak Teh, we stopped at the signboard below.

Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil. Penjara Tapah or Tapah Prison was just 200 meters away from the spot we were standing.

It was supposed to be time well spent with the kids but most of the time they were not cooperative. Shakiel was a real pain at times. His mind is at Adeline Resort and paint ball games.

And we continued with our journey until we found Kampung Mak Teh. My other half has a cousin whom we called Mak Teh, so we took a photo and sent to Mak Teh...hahaha...and later that night we had dinner in Sri Iskandar at Restaurant Ikan Bakar Pak Teh...hehehe...Pak teh is Mak Teh's husband. Moving on we found Chikus, Mambang Di Awan, Air Kuning, Lawan Kuda, Kopisan, and Kota Baharu. After all that we headed for Greentown Dim Sum, in Ipoh.

Chikus. Mostly inhabited by local Malays and has acres and acres of paddy fields. Chikus came from the word tikus or rat. Paddy farmers had major problem with rats destroying their crops just in one night. The farmers said it was bad omen which  was brought down on them after they disobeyed some rituals.

Air Kuning. Nothing yet can be found about how Air Kuning or Yellow Water got its name. Maybe the water everywhere was yellow once?

Mambang Di Awan. Once used to be a tin mining town and mostly inhabited by local chinese. According to myth, an English officer by the name of George Maxwell named this place as 'Fairies Among the Cloud' or Mambang Di Awan because he saw fairies flew down from Gunung Bujan Melaka. However another version mentioned that a group of hard working miners after a days work saw fairies came down from the sky. Finally the last version by an historian Chye Kooi Loong in 1886 recorded a charismatic and dynamic Malay leader by the name of Imam Prang Jabor discovered and opened a Malay settlement which he later named it as Mambang Di Awan after the name of Gunung Mambang Di Awan.

Finally we reached Kampung Mak Teh. Just to be sure, we circled the small village before determining with the signage we have found Kampung Mak Teh! No history of how it got its name. The length that we have driven since 5:30 am this morning seems worth a lot to my other half...

Let the picture speaks for itself.

or...wondering...what is Shakira leaning against?...

TO BE CONTINUED....