This week’s theme is “clean” and a very quick check on the word “clean” on the web reveals at least 30 definitions (no, I’m NOT kidding you, check it out yourself) and one of them reads: “free from impurities, e.g. clean water, fresh air.
So yea, I hope it appears to you that what the following picture is trying to show IS indeed the clean air 
This photo was taken last year during Chinese New Year when we visited my maternal grandmother who lives in Sungai Lembing. If you haven’t heard of it, Sungai Lembing is a tin mining town 42 km northwest of Kuantan.
Until the 1970s, Sungai Lembing was a major producer of underground tin. Sungai Lembing town developed in the 1880’s when the British set up the tin mining industry, although the history of mining in this area extends much further back. From 1891, the Pahang Consolidated Company Limited, (PCCL), which was under British control, had a 77-year lease to mine the area. PCCL managed the mine from 1906 until its liquidation in 1986 when world tin prices collapsed.
The pit mines were closed in 1986 due to high operational costs and low yields, but during their heyday they were among the largest and deepest in the world. The total tunnel length is 322 km, with a depth of between 610 m and 700 m. A museum highlighting the tin mining industry was opened in 2003. The museum is housed in an old bungalow once used by the mine manager. The museum houses a collection of mining artifacts.
Today the town of Sungai Lembing is in decline although it was once the richest town in Pahang, known as El Dorado of the East. In the 1940’s about 1400 people worked in the mine. Today many of the wooden shop-lots are closed and people are moving away.
- Source: Wikipedia
And did you know that in 1990, the Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act which set minimum standards for air quality in America’s cities? The Clean Air Act aims to improve air quality in the United States, and to begin to reverse some of the damage caused by decades of air pollution. The simple fact is that air pollution can make you sick, damage the environment, damage property, and cause haze that reduces visibility in national parks and interferes with aviation.
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i’ll be grateful oredi if i have clean underwear everyday! hehehe
pelf: AARRGGHHHH!
Wuching: Yer…… you don’t have clean underwear everyday?
What a lovely pic!
pelf: Thanks
What a great photo for this weeks theme of clean!
pelf: Thank you for the kind words
I love this picture - it is so perfectly Malaysia - the rain, the roofs, the hills and the palm trees! Lovely!
pelf: You may want to visit Sungai Lembing once day, you know, and climb the Panorama Hill (witness the sunrise)
Our air is so thick you can chew it during the summer! We have been to the tropics a few times and it is intoxicating to be able to breathe, especially after a rain!
Love your photo…
pelf: You can chew on air?! Amazing!!
Yes, Sungai Lembing
I remember driving there about 10 at night just to reach there and then climb up the path that leads up to the peak of the mountain there just to watch sunrise. Too bad my last trip did not give me the chance to see sunrise though I was there waiting since 4 in morning
pelf: You know, one of my cousins got so used to going uphill that there was once he went camping at the summit with his friends, but then realized that they forgot to bring some instant noodles, and guess what he did? He ran downhill, went home, got some noodles and ran uphill. CRAZY.
That’s a great entry! You are so right. The air is clean here, too, and what a relief after living in an industrialized area!
We have clean air where we live out in the country, too. I suppose I probably take it for granted. Good take on the theme, pelf…
Clean air is important to someone like me, an asthmatic. I am concerned for children growing up in these pollution-laden cities, and maybe the new regulations will help.
Beautiful shot!
Fresh, clean air is hard to come by nowadays. It’s a lovely photo. Clean air is very precious.