Matang's colourful bird houses

Bird houses are everywhere in Malaysia now. Also called swiftlet farms, or bird hotels, they are places to house swiftlets for the birds nest (soup) industry. The buildings can either be converted from an existing building in a town, or it can be a purpose built place. The latter can be seen in so many rural areas now.

Usually the purpose built places are isolated although sometimes you see two close together. So it was quite a surprise to see a whole "town" of them in Matang, Perak. Even more of a surprise to see some of them painted in bright colours. Normally bird houses are usually plain concrete.

Although it is hard to see in this photo, the bird houses extend the whole width of the photo, behind the coconut trees -

 they can be seen more easily here -

And these are the colourful ones, they are in a row behind some colourful buildings which will be occupied by humans!

These bird houses are located on the main Matang road. The Kota Ngah Ibrahim is nearby

and in the other direction is the Matang mosque

Instead of a dome, it has a spire that looks as if it belongs to a church!

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