Today’s agenda was to visit the floating villages, to explore their way of life and try to understand it. It was quite a journey from our guesthouse and our tour guide for the day was Azim. I think it’s spelled like this. He came with us because the Kampong kluang or floating village is his hometown. We saw the village via a bumboat, slightly better than those you see at pulau ubin. Anyway, the water quality itself was seriously bad. It was totally light brown in colour. Haha, exactly like Milk tea. Since it was the dry season, all of us could see the wooden supports the people built to support their houses during the wet season. The difference in water level during these 2 seasons is just remarkable. This was not all! As we delve further, we saw literally floating villages. The only means of transport is by boat. Imagine a house surrounded by water. That’s what we saw, but just many of them scattered over the place. The life of the people there from our view is very primitive, and the way they can survive is just mind-boggling. The whole journey took about 2-3hours. After that, we help distribute some donated clothes to the villagers of Kampong Kluang.
Oh yeah, Sarah sprained her ankle when alighting the boat. Luckily it was well taken care of by the people around her especially Hayley, Ranie and the first aiders.
Cheers to the team and wish Sarah recover asap
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