Travel to Crab Island (Pulau Ketam) Malaysia

There was a long holidays (4 days included weekend) in conjunction of Malay’s New Year. I’m with my friend decide travel to this island for an outing.

There was a sunny Monday morning. We depart at 10am from Titiwangsa monorail station to KL Sentral. Then transit with KTM (Keretapi Tanah Melayu) from KL Sentral to Port Klang. The train journal took us 1½ hours.

Once we have arrived the ferry jetty, a few hundreds of people queuing waiting the express boat to Crab Island under a hot noon sun. Felt lucky I did bring umbrella. A windy condition at that time makes us felt comfortable. We’re waiting for 45 minutes to get boarded and the journey to Crab Island took 45 minutes. Finally we reached the island at 2:05pm.

We don’t expect a lot people will visit to this island but it is not. Thousands of visitor has make the tiny street became clouded. There are numbers of Sea Food Restaurant in this island. Every restaurants full of hunger and exhausted enjoying nice sea foods. We can’t even have chance to seat down. 30 minutes later, we managed found a table and seat down at Restaurant Seafood Pin Heong. We are waiting for 20 minutes with no one serving us. Table still dirty and full of previous customers empty plate, crab bones, rubbish. End up we moved away to another restaurant named Restaurant Jin He.

We make an order of Sweet & Sour Crab, Butter Prawn, Bamboo Shell and Vegetable. 30 minutes of waiting and 1 hour of eating. Because this is a day trip, we have less time to explore around by foot. We then decide to rent a bicycle zooming around the village. The only transportation in Crab Island is bicycle. There were no motorcycles and no cars.

Very fun riding a bicycle in a narrow pathway. We have visit to the temples, schools, ship build yard and villages house. During the riding, there was an accident happen to me. I was fall down from bicycle due to avoiding impact with another bicycle from junction. Somehow I press the front brake instead of back brake while holding my digital camera on my right hand. Worst is I didn’t realize left handbrake is for front wheel brake and right handbrake is for back wheel brake. End up injured on my left knee and my right hand finger. Sigh!

The picture on left side snap at T-2 second before I fell down.

I’m still okay with minor injured but… Oh no!!! My digital camera was hardly knock the floor surface while I still holding it in my right hand. There was a scratch on my lens. My camera was auto turning off because of the impact. Restarting my camera and luckily still functioning. We then continue explored the village before the last boat departing from the island at 6pm.

5:50pm we boarded a big wooden boat operate by locals, took us 1 hour from Crab Island return to Port Klang. And then we boarded the express train at 7:10pm from Port Klang to KL Sentral.

Here’s the expenses detail for Crab Island trip:-

- RM2.50 LRT from Titiwangsa to KL Sentral
- RM4.30 KTM to Port Klang
- RM7.00 Express Boat to Crab Island
- RM114.40 Lunch at Crab Island (2pax sharing meals)
- RM5.00 Renting Bicycle
- RM7.00 Boat to Port Klang
- RM4.30 KTM to KL Sentral
- RM2.50 LRT from KL Sentral to Titiwangsa

What is the attraction place in Crab Island?

Nang Thiam Keng Temple

Hock Leng Keng Temple

Kongsi House

Fish Dealer Centre

Wooden Fishing Boat Factory

Fish Farm (located outside the island)

Where to Stay?

If you plan to stay overnight in Crab Island, there’s numbers of Hotel, Inns, Guess House provided for visitors. Here is the cost we get it from Pulau Ketam Inn, from as low as RM35.00 to RM85.00 per room/night. Please visit to http://www.pulauketam.com/ for more detail.

My Advised

Riding bicycle in an island is fun but if you do not have confidence  riding on it, please do not rent. You could fall down to the swampy or sea as certain areas do not has railings or divider. Adults, please watch out your kids when travel to Crab Island.

~Special thanks to my friend, Chin LL contribution some photos to this post~

Update…

Please visit to my Flickr for more Crab Island photos http://is.gd/51vxI