{"id":6123,"date":"2026-05-19T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ipacktravel.com\/wp\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:00:41","slug":"kulai-see-lets-art-at-sawit-mural-street-kelapa-sawit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ipacktravel.com\/wp\/kulai-see-lets-art-at-sawit-mural-street-kelapa-sawit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kulai See: “Let’s Art at Sawit” Wall Art Street @ Kelapa Sawit (\u52a0\u62c9\u5df4\u6c99\u5a01.\u58c1\u753b\u8857)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kelapa Sawit \u2014 translates to “oil palm” in Malay \u2014 is a traditional Hakka village in the northwestern part of Kulai District, Johor, about an hour’s drive from Johor Bahru checkpoint (JB CIQ). It is a vibrant town that offers a charming mix of heritage, art, and authentic Hakka cuisine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “Wall Art Street” in Kelapa Sawit is known to many of its visitors by generic names. The art lane comprises of two segments that meet at a cross-road junction and each lane has its own name. The rightful name of “Lane 1” is “Let’s Art at Sawit (\u6c99\u5a01\u827a\u8d77\u6765)” as displayed on the bamboo-made archway at the intersection. “Let’s Art at Sawit” is an initiative in 2014 to revitalise the former 1949 Hakka settlement, turning it into a tourist attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s start with “Lane 1”, which is a back lane that lies between two rows of residential houses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many murals lined the two walls along the sides of the artistic lane, some are paintings, some are non-painted artworks, some with real-life objects for visitors to interact with the artworks and also a “male lion head” art piece featuring detailed carving of the lion’s face. Some of the artworks feature scenes in Fujian Province of China, where the ancestors of the local Hakka communities had migrated from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are also murals depicting local culture with Chinese phrases and their corresponding pronunciations in the Hakka language \u2014 even so, trying to pronounce the words correctly is very challenging. The use of Traditional Chinese characters is itself a major challenge to many Chinese, especially the younger generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aside from arts on the walls, paintings of koi fishes on the walkway swim towards the intersection point between the two segments of the art lane. Instead of arrows or footprints, these “fishes” are acting as “guides” to direct visitors to the start point. The fishes in Lane 2 swim towards the intersection too, meeting the fishes from Lane 1 and circling there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second segment of the art lane is fronted by a relatively-new archway, which identifies the lane as Chang’an Alley (\u957f\u5b89\u5df7). It is said that before the name “Kelapa Sawit” was coined, due to a oil palm plantation nearby, the village was known as Chang’an Village (\u957f\u5b89\u6751). Naming the lane as “Chang’an Alley” served as a memoir. In Chinese, chang’an<\/em> translates to “eternal peace” \u2014 and definitely much better than “Oil Palm Lane 2”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n