Bagan Sekinchan

Bagan is the fishing-village quarter of Sekinchan, a laid-back coastal town in Sabak Bernam district, Selangor, about 90 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur. Visitors find a network of wooden jetties and stilted houses where brightly painted fishing boats bob gently with the tide; in the early morning fishermen unload their freshest catch — fish, prawns and crabs — while family stalls sell seafood products from anchovies to shrimp paste. Next to the village, Redang Beach faces the Straits of Malacca and the famous Wishing Tree, a mammoth banyan with its lower branches laden with red ribbons.