Kukup Laut
Century-old stilt fishing village of boardwalks, seafood restaurants and floating fish farms.
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This guide to Kukup Laut, the stilt fishing village on the Johor coast near Johor Bahru, turns on the mangrove island across the channel and the Singapore merchant Syed Mohamed Alsagoff, who was granted it in the late nineteenth century. It follows a plantation called Constantinople Estate, the private banknotes that circulated on it, and the pilgrim-shipping business that ran alongside it. Best heard on a boardwalk facing the water and the floating fish farms.
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