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Gunung Keriang in Kedah: A beautiful, lonely rock in a sea of padi fields

By ARNOLD LOH
Photos By ARNOLD LOH
At the top of Gunung Keriang, overlooking a sea of padi fields.

GEOLOGICALLY, it seems almost an impossibility.

North of Alor Setar in Kedah, is a flatland that stretches across 50,000ha.

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