Kuala Sepetang

Kuala Sepetang is a coastal town in the Larut, Matang and Selama District of northwestern Perak, Malaysia, long known to English speakers by its colonial name Port Weld, after the Straits Settlements governor Frederick Weld. It is a fishing village and the jumping-off point for Kuala Sangga, a Chinese fishing community at the river mouth that specialises in cage fish breeding. Port Weld was the terminal station of the first railway line built in what is now Malaysia, opened in 1885, and a ticket booth and station signboard survive in the town. Visitors come for seafood, the Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve with its boardwalk, charcoal kilns that use sustainably farmed mangroves, and boat tours to see fireflies at night.