Kukup Revisited

Kukup is a small fishing village located about forty kilometres southwest of Johor Bahru, in the district of Pontian, Johor, on the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia. It is famous for its open-air seafood restaurants built on stilts over the water. Some of the restaurants are geared for tour groups, and it is particularly popular with tourists from Singapore.



ITINERARY:

Day 1: Singapore - Kukup
Day 2: Kukup - Singapore



DAY 1 (15 May 2010, Saturday)

For the second year running, Tangshooters has organised a 2D1N trip to Kukup. We meet up at Jurong East MRT where we were picked up by a minibus at 0800hrs, and proceed to Malaysia via the Woodlands Immigration Checkpoint.


The first stop was at Queen Park Restaurant in Perling for a quick morning breakfast, before the 1hr journey to Kukup.




On arrival at Kukup town, we were greeted by the resort staffs who checked us into the resort. Hello Resort is clean and simple, with air conditioning, WIFI, Astro cable channel, a reasonably clean bathroom/toilet, karaoke and mahjong gamesets.




Walkabout around the fishing village.





Seafood lunch at Long Wan Restaurant



Continued walkabout around Kukup Fishing Village after a filling lunch






Coconut Jelly - Made from real coconut!


Really crispy and hot deep fried prawn crackers prepared by the resort owners!


After a hot and humid noon walking around, we headed back to the resort for some mahjong, karaoke and twister fun!



Tangshooter's favourite is the Roulette drinking game with Chivas, Yuzu, Heineken, and Pepsi!!!! It never fails to entertain and create non-stop fun!


Sunset from our resort






A very sumptuous seafood dinner at the resort


Setting off the Kong Ming Lantern


Bought some fireworks to set off from the open air platform at the resort




And even sparkles to do some 'light painting'




DAY 2 (16 May 2010, Sunday)

We woke up to day light with the sun casting beautiful colours on the landscape.



Breakfast


Lunch at the resort before checking out






After lunch, we departed Kukup at 1300hrs and arrived back in Singapore at around 1500hrs on a smooth bus journey.



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FAST FACTS

All-inclusive resort: S$53
Transport: S$30
Miscellaneous: S$14
TOTAL EXPENDITURE: S$97



EXCHANGE RATE
S$1.00 = RM2.32



TRAVEL GUIDES / NEWS / MAGAZINES

Hello Resort
http://www.oeo.com.sg/oeo_hello.asp

Kukup Breeze Resort
http://all4webs.com/f/j/kukupbreeze/

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukup

Malaysia Travel Guide
http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/pulau-kukup-johor/

Malaysia Tourism
http://www.tourism.gov.my/en/destinations/item.asp?item=pulaukukup