Day trip to Alor Setar, Kedah

I'm also not sure why we're so keen on Kedah nowadays. Maybe it's because 姐姐 told us, she don't like to go to kampung places. Makes us more determined than ever to bring her to all those kampung places before she totally refuse to follow us. Anyway, Alor Setar is not as kampung as we thought. My my, it's got more big buildings than we ever thought.

First stop to the furthest place on our itinery. If not for the GPS we would have difficulty to find it, as there isn't much roadsign along the way. We have heard of Gunung Keriang bearing the shape of an elephant. So there we are at the Gunung Keriang Recreational Park. The place is quite deserted except for the local traders, and a few youngsters zooming around in bicycles and motorbikes. The main attraction for our children seem to be a flock of ducks waddling around the man-made lake. We didn't attempt to hike up since not many people there.

Elephant shaped Gunung Keriang. The children are at the gazebo.

They were chasing the ducks around and the ducks all waddle into the lake.

After that we went looking for Muzium Padi (Paddy Museum of Kedah). There was already big sign boards leading the way to the Muzium Padi. Entrance is RM3 for adults, RM1 for children between 7-12 years old, and RM2 for camera. Many people bring their camera here :) Oops we forgot to take photo of how the muzium look like as it is in unique circular shape. This shape makes the paintings/mural look 3-D from a distance.

Outside Muzium Padi, and a model cross-section of rice

Spectacular painting gallery, but visitors not allowed to go near.

The blue lake is painting of Lake Pedu (Tasik Pedu), below is the tools of traditional paddy planting 

Revolving platform where visitors can view the massive mural of Gunung Kerian and its surrounding scenery.

We left the museum around 2pm. Gunung Keriang is just a skip away. We saw Gunung Keriang Tradisional Village still under renovation. Looks like new place if visiting later in the year. We tried looking for late lunch at Alor Setar town, but gosh, everywhere seems to be closing or already closed! Man, don't people in Alor Setar have a late lunch? There are so many big buildings but nowhere open for lunch at 2:30pm (circle around many times ler). We ended up at McDonald's instead of savouring local food :(  Next time, have to take our lunch when reach Alor Setar before visiting any places :P

After our late lunch, it's time for more exploring the town. Since we're at Alor Setar, it would not be complete without a visit to the Menara Alor Setar (Alor Setar Tower). It's RM6 for adults and RM3 for children 4 years and above. There's a revolving restaurant serving lunch, tea and dinner, but we're already stuffed with fast food.

Lastly a photo session of some landmarks in Alor Setar. Only 姐姐 agreed to be our model, 弟弟 say he is too tired :)

We went to Alor Setar again in 2015 and the new post is here (click on this link).