On my recent Birthday, The members of Rotaract Club of Penang went to Pulau Aman for a day trip. Pulau Aman is situated nearby one of the jetties at butterworth. We pushed off with 2 cars at 9 am in the morning and drove straight to the jetty to catch a ride to Pulau Aman. In order to go to Pulau Aman, one must take a 20 minutes boat ride from the jetty to the island itself.
In Kelvin Thum's car =)
The Machas
I can see the jetty !!!
Here Kitty kitty =)
Walking towards the dock
Here comes our ride =)
Bye Bye !!!
The IPDRR and the President ...
Passengers
Boon Siew, DON'T JUMP !!!
Upon Reaching
A stingray and a cat fish ...
And i present to you ... Pulau Aman !!!
Low tide
hehex =)
Pulau Aman is actually a fishing village and a tourist attraction spot. The place is mostly inhabited by malay vilagers that earn their daily living from the ocean. Many locals come to Pulau Aman to fish as it is a cooling and peaceful village whereby they can enjoy the scenery and the freshness of the ocean brezze.
Pulau Aman closeup ...
As you can see, Pulau Aman is just like another simple fishing village with coconut trees and houses made out of wood and also bricks
The one and only drink stall ...
What you see is what you get ...
Places of interest in Pulau Aman
Well, actually we all came to Pulau Aman not for fishing or to enjoy the boat ride but our main goal was to try out their famous MEE UDANG. Legend said that the Mee Udang is made of the freshest prawns in the whole Malaysia, the most sour lime in whole of peninsular Malaysia, the hottest chilli there is to offer and also the the most succulent mee ... okay, enough of bullcrap ... i was over exaggerating. However, the prawn is really fresh and huge and it is quite cheap =)
People selling fresh fishes...
TADA !!!
We all odered 3 Mee Udang and 3 Mee Goreng so that we could have a variety of Food and everybody can share and try out the difference between the two types of cooking style ...
Thirst Quencher
Look at the MEE UDANG !!!
... and the MEE GORENG !!!
Greedy Kelvin with his Prawn XD
Before ...
... and after =)
Into the Village
One of the Wooden houses
Me: They have a school ???
Kelvin: you another 'SUA TENG LANG'
Raft and Kayak
The effects of low tide
Seashells !!!
People catching fishes
I forgot to mention that, people come to Pulau Aman to dig 'Siput's (a kind of sea clamp) too ...
Parrot
We then detoured and went on to jungle tracking... The place is actually quite beautiful because it is filled with untainted floras and faunas.
Semasa ... bla bla bla bla bla ...
The Telaga Mas
Reeeeaaaaccching out !!!
Something ancient happened here ...
A bunch of Posers taking a break from the long walk ...
After our tour around the village, we then make our way back to the jetty to go back to butterworth for our late lunch...
Bloody sight ...
little shrimps used by fishermen as bait.
Poser Kelvin while on the way back to the jetty.
We then took off to Bagan Lalang for lunch. The place we had lunch was packed as it was a famous restaurant whereby many visitors come to try out their famous 'GEI KIA' (little chicken). Although the place was packed, to my surprise, the food was served within 15 minutes only because there are limited cooking style for every dish (thank GOD!!!)... so they can practically prepare everything in a huge quantity at once.
'TU BO SUI' (Octopus)
Tuak - Coconut liqour
Fried Bihun
Steam 'Ang Sai'
'GEI KIA'
Fried pancake
'Kappa' (sea clamps)
After our delicious meal, we all headed back home... it was a fun Rotaract outing for it was an eye opener to many of us. I would hope for more outings like that in the future =)
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