Kukup is a good place for relaxing and good place for family outing.
The island is an old fishing village found at the southwest tip of the Peninsular of West Malaysia with history of a century old. Its unique of a fishing village built entirely on stilts on the sea surrounded by water, linked by concrete jetty from house to house. Kukup is located about 70 kilometres away from Johor Bahru, and 20 kilometres from Pontian
As recent statistic shown, this old fishing village is occupied by some 1,000 residents wholly from the Chinese race. The village will be flooded with flow of tourists on Saturdays and Sundays. Tourists especially from Singapore like to tour and stay here in groups very frequently because of the economic and cheap expenditures, warm hospitality and many interesting places to be visited.
It will take at least 3 to 5 hrs to get to Kukup by a tour bus depending on how congested the custom is. Congestion usually happens on holidays.