About Us

 

We are three students of Master in Instructional Multiedia from Universiti Sains Malaysia. This project aims to bring a 360-degree experience at several tourist attractions in Kedah, Malaysia.

 

For this project, we take you on a trip to Gunung Jerai, the highest peak in Kedah and also locations suurrounding the mount that are Lembah Bujang & Sungai Batu. Both are historical sites and home to scenic view and lush mother nature. We hope to attract younger audience to enjoy history in an interactive way via our 360 degree video experience.

Gunung Jerai

 

Mount Jerai located in Kedah stands at the border of Kuala Muda and Yan districts. The mountain is a massive limestone outcrop and is a lone feature from the surrounding geography of the area. 

 

The height of Mount Jerai relative to its surroundings allowed Indian traders and seafarers to use the mountain as a navigational point more than 1500 years ago. The mountain was considered sacred by the ancient Malays and now it attracts both tourists and the pious.

Bujang Valley

 

Bujang Valley is a sprawling 224 sq km site near Merbok, Kedah, stretching between Gunung Jerai to the Sungei Muda (Muda River). It was the site of an organised society, dating back more than 2000 years and which left behind more than fifty ancient temples. Evidence that Kedah was once the centre of an iron production site has been unearthed. Iron smelting furnaces were found in Jeniang, not far from the Sungai Batu site, Bujang Valley. The discoveries of Sungai Batu were attracting the attention of historians and archaeologists.

Sungai Batu

 

Sungai Batu is part of the Bujang Valley complex and holds evidence of Southeast Asia’s earliest civilization, complete with a strong economic foundation, that of iron smelting and the exportation of Iron ore on a large scale. It is older than the ancient sites of Borobudur or Angkor Wat.

 

 The discovery of a stone with Pallava inscriptions indicates a link with the Pallava Dynasty of northern Tamil Nadu, India. Supporting the theory of export trade was the discovery of jetty like structures, and roof tiles, found near, what is now a small stream but 2,000 years ago was a river plying with craft deep into the Bujang Valley and across the waters to India and Arabia.

 

One unexpected find was a brick monument, dated 110 AD, made up of three parts; a circular base or floor of 10.61 meters in diameter, a square upper part of 5.51 meters by 5.51 meters with a central hole, 1.61 meters in diameter. The features of the site and the discoveries in the surrounding area indicate a place of worship, likely related to nature and the cosmos. Such sites occur world wide, but it was an unexpected find in Malaysia.