Kedah Attractions Menara Alor Setar, Bujang Valley

Menara Alor Setar

Menara Alor Setar Kedah attractions is a popular tourist destination in the Northern Region. It is the second tallest telecommunication tower in Malaysia and the 22^nd in the world with the height of 165.5 meters above sea level.

It is managed by Menara Kuala Lumpur Sdn. Bhd, a subsidiaries of Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM). The title ‘Negeri Jelapang Padi‘ became the main inspiration for the tower’s design when the ‘Serumpun Padi‘ image attached was clearly visible on the tower structure. The large pillar known as the ‘Tiang Seri‘ which supports the tower structure symbolizes the strength of the people of Kedah Darul Aman.

It provides telecommunications and broadcasting services and also a variety of other facilities for visitors such as Observation Deck located at the 88 meters above sea level with five sets of automated binoculars for free. There is also Megaview Banquet Hall at 100 meters provides facilities for functions such meeting, seminars, courses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner and more for government agencies, corporate bodies, NGOs, associations, etc.

Menara Alor Setar also provide dining in the sky experience such as Menara Alor Setar Revolving Restaurant, which is located at 94 meters and the highest restaurant in Kedah Darul Aman. This restaurant is a suitable place for all occasions such as wedding, dinner, lunch, anniversary celebration and many more.

MENARA ALOR SETAR
Lot 99 Lebuhraya Darulaman,
05100 Alor Setar, Kedah Darulaman.

Telephone: (604) – 720 2906 / 720 2901
Fax: (604) – 720 2073

Bujang Valley

This is the info about The History of Bujang Valley. His Royal Highness, the Sultan of Kedah officiated the Archeology Museum Bujang Valley on 23rd January 1980 at Batu Pahat Hill. It was the first archaeology museum built in Malaysia. Bujang Valley served as an old center of international and entrepôt trade for Malaysia in ancient times.

Bujang Valley Artefacts

There are numerous artefacts that were found in the valley. These include celadon, porcelain, stoneware, clay, pottery, fragments of glass, beads and Persian ceramics. In Kedah there are remains showing Buddhist and Hindu influences which has been known for about a century now from the discoveries reported by Col. Low and has recently been subjected to a fairly exhaustive investigation by Dr. Quaritch Wales. Dr. Wales investigated no fewer than thirty sites round about Kedah.

An inscribed stone bar, rectangular in shape, bears the ye-dharmma formula in Pallava script of the 7th century, thus proclaiming the Buddhist character of the shrine near the find-spot (site I) of which only the basement survives. It is inscribed on three faces in Pallava script of the 6th century, possibly earlier. Except for the Cherok Tokkun Inscription, which was engraved on a large boulder, other inscriptions discovered in Bujang Valley are comparatively small in size and probably were brought in by Buddhist pilgrimage or traders.

For the past two decades, students from universities around Malaysia have been invited for research and have done their graduate works at the Valley. Much of the historical links is still vague considering not many of the scriptures and writings survive. Even the temples did not survive the onslaught of age because their wooden roofing has rotted and withered over the past 1,200 years. The museum itself is inadequate and not organised, much of the findings are elsewhere scattered from Museum Negara to Singapore (which once formed a part of Malaysia).

Folk stories and oral history also provide place for a magnificent kingdom of jewels and gold. Outside peninsular and insular Southeast Asia, oral history in India suggests the presence of golden chariots and jewels in hidden caves at Bujang Valley and Mount Jerai Kedah. Some visitors to the antiquity department at Muzium Negara has eyewitness accounts of magnificent objects such as a 10-feet-tall Raja Bersiung Throne and various idols and items from the Valley.