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Pulau Ketam is a fascinating island, full of fishing
village sceneries. Ketam means crap in Malay. Pulau
Ketam means crap island. All buildings are built 3-5
feet from the swampland. During high tide, houses look
like 'floating on the water' giving a wonderful and
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Villagers are friendly and willing to help tourist in
getting to know this island. Ketam's fish farm is floating on
the sea.
It takes about 10 minutes journey to reach by boat. Fishes
are reared in these fishing farms. Most of the live fish are
exported to Hong Kong.
Some of them will be transported to other fishing farms
or restaurants. It is an interesting experience to stand
on a real floating farm on water. It is fun feeding the
fish too. Chalets are available. You can stay at fish
farm for a night.
Tourists who
had visited Pulau Ketam might wondered how the village
became a paradise from a desolated island. The History
is interesting and worth compliment. Long time ago,
Pulau Ketam was desolated, small island full of
"Mangrove Swamps" amd famous for its crabs. Three Hainan
fishermen from Bagan Hainan, Port Klang, were the first
to arrive at Pulau Ketam catching crabs for their
living.
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At first, the came and returned to Port Klang
daily. The journey took almost a day. A few month later,
they built a small house to stay over nights. They rowed
back to Port Klang the second day selling crabs and
buying daily sundries it return. At 1872, they built a
temple named "Chuan Eng Bio" located near Jalan Timur
now. after that, they had decided to stay permanently.
Pulau Ketam
is equipped with almost all the basic facilities. It also
plays a role as a major fish, crabs, prawns provider to
Klang valley and a tourism spot of Negeri Selangor.
Ferry services are available everyday. The journey takes
will take about 30 minutes. Beside ferry, speedboat is
also available 24 hours per day on call. If you have
cargoes to deliver, cargo boats are available too.
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