Fantastic+Merapu Adventures: Trip To The Border: Wang Kelian

Hello to all my blog readers. In this entry, I will tell you some story about my trip to Wang Kelian. Wang Kelian is a small village located at Malaysia-Thailand Border, about 40km from Kangar surrounded by pretty limestone hills. It is one of two border crossings between Malaysia and Thailand in the state of Perlis. The other one is at Padang Besar. The village across the border from Wang Kelian is Wang Prachan, located in Satun province, Thailand. You can see the map here.

Amazing mountain scenery:

The sky just blissfully beautifull

This place is famous for it's Sunday market on both sides of the border. The Malaysia and Thailand governments allow people to move freely across the border to shop within the confines of the market without the need for any documents. The market basically lines the Wang Kelian-Satun road, stretching about 1km on both sides of the border.

Long walks and a lot of cars

The market:

You can find fruits like lychee, durian, manggo, longan, mangosteen, and rambutan. Or food such as the famous "pulut ayam" (which actually is glutinous rice with fried spicy chicken, crispy fried onions and sweet chili sauce), "somtam" (a type of Thai spicy and sour salad made of young mango, shrimp, chili, squid sauce and young papaya), "tom-yum", Thai spicy herbs soup and many more of interesting and delicious food.

Time to fill up my empty stomach:

Spicy chicken herbs soup with kway teow

Mix "tom-yum" with kway teow

Seasonings

Fried chicken rice

"Laksa"

You can buy many cheap items there. From clothing, fishing equipment, camping equipment, kitchen equipment, many type of colourful fishes for pets and decorative purpose, toys, hand crafts such as bags, baskets, hats any so many other things.