Kukup Laut, a very unique and a century old fishing village built entirely on stilts on the sea surrounded by water, is the southmost village found at the southwest tip of the Peninsular of West Malaysia, and suppose to be the southmost village found in the Continental of Asia.Located about 70 kilometres away from Johor Bahru, and 20 kilometres from Pontian, Kukup Laut has only one road to access by land. It may be reached by sea boarding ferry leaving World Trade Center in Singapore daily. The entire village is linked by jetty also built on stilts on sea. This place is famous of its seafood. It's geographically and ideally shadowed by one of the world's largest mangrove swamp island - Kukup Island along which numerous fish-farms bob up and down on the surface of the Kukup Sea..........

     Kukup Laut, located on the west coast of Johor State, surrounded by water, is the southmost village found at the southwest tip of the Peninsular of West Malaysia, and suppose to be the southmost village found in the Continental of Asia. Located about 80 kilometres away from Johor Bahru, and 20 kilometres from Pontian, Kukup Laut has only one road to access by land. If you are travelling by road from Johor Bahru, then you should head towards north. You should follow the route to Senai/Kulai, but turn left at the signboard pointing towards Pontian. That is the district kukup belongs to. Pontian and Pontian Kecil is the same town you are heading. On the way you may pass by towns such as Pekan Nanas (the Pineapple Village) and then stop at the traffic junction where signboard indicating a left turn will head for Kukup. That is the exact and only road that will take you to and back the famouse Kukup fishing village.

     Kukup has long been a favoured destination for seafood lovers and a haven for bargain hunters, is now home to an exciting holiday concept - a holiday house located in the middle of the sea!.................

     Kukup enjoys its name as a famous fishing village built entirely on stilts, majority of the residens are fishermen or fish farmers. They catch fish from the sea - Straits of Malacca, and sell them to the market place in Pontian. There are many seafood restaurants here serving very fresh and cheap food of various style of cooking. Most of the restaurants here serve very good and fresh fishes, prawns, crabs, lobsters, cuttlefish and many others. As the sea harvest is good, many fishermen used to keep some fish, prawns and cuttlefish for themselves, or dried them in the tropical sun. This dried and sometimes salted fish, prawns, and cuttlefish also are sold to tourists.

The District which is now known as PONTIAN, was called KUKUP or KUKUB with its administrative center located somewhere near the present harbour in Kukup Laut. In those ancient time, the West Coast of Johor, from Kukup to Benut was the stop and rest place of the sea pirates based in the Straits of Kukup. They stationed and based at the river mouths of the Perhentian Besar River, and the Perhentian Kechil River. (Malay words meaning Perhentian=Stop Place, Besar=Big, Kechil=Small) These two rivers were then called the Pontian Besar River and Pontian Kechil River. Thus it was obvious that the name PONTIAN, came from the Malay word Perhentian meaning the Stop Place.

Let me take you to another virtual tour in Kukup. I just bought a digital camera, and will be taking lots of lots of pictures of the surrounding scenery to show you the beautiful landscapes where I live. and here is Kukup .........

Now, I am taking you to a Kukup Virtual Tour.This tour actually was fully automatic using the Javascript function. But because many visitors like to view the photographs for a longer period, and some of them may want to keep the photographs, so they sent me e-mails asking me to change the automatic run setting to manual. So here it is, with pleasure I am introducing the vitual tour. Please also be reminded that I am not a Chalet owner. If you want to book a chalet, contact the owners using their telephones. Their names and phone numbers are listed in the chalet owners' list.