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By Amy and Dan
August 19th 2009

East Coast Extravaganza...Kuala Terengganu, Cherating, Kuantan and Mersing to you and I! Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

Perhentian to Kuala Besut

18 August, 2009 - 20 August, 2009 KUALA TERENGGANU Kuala Besut to Kuala Terengganu by bus (RM10.60)--2 1/2 hours After spending an extra night on the Perhentian Islands we finally felt ready enough to leave our little piece of paradise (actually, the cash ran dry so we had no choice!). We awoke bright and early and caught the 8am speedboat for the hellish journey back to Kuala Besut. Hellish? But why? After boarding a relatively overloaded boat we had to transfer to an even more overloaded one in the middle of the sea (requiring extreme balancing skills with the backpacks on!). [View Full Entry]

By katiemitch
March 25th 2009

Diving in paradise Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

Firstly I'm in the most annoying, headache inducing place in the whole of Malaysia, possibly the whole of Asia, which up until now has been very tranquil and zen. The internet cafe is also some sort of computer game cafe, full of adolescent boys playing war games - feel like I'm in about 3 different war zones at once. Took an overnight bus here, wasn't too bad, 10 hours though and I put my trousers on backwards then couldn't change them round. Luckily they weren't a pair of jeans or anything, else that would really be retarted, they were sort of [View Full Entry]

By bedreddin
October 5th 2008

Time Stands Still in Terengganu Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

Ever since he pounced on me saying Orang Putih! and knocked a Ringgit off the price, he's become my regular fish vendor. The lady in front of me seems surprised (presumably by my buying fresh fish), and he explains something of which I only caught "Duyong". Yup, I stay in Pulau Duyong I explain in English, pointing across the river to the little kampung island (as LP would describe it). She smiles to reassure me. My fish-walla asks his usual "two kilos?" to which I reply with my usual istinggo kilo which he repeats in English: half kilo? That's enough to [View Full Entry]

By FeL et Vero
July 30th 2008

Des singe-riz! Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

Cherating

Nous qui étions tellement excité de voir des singes a Singapore, il faut croire que l'on va probablement s'habituer très vite à en voir partout en Malaisie. Etant dans ce pays depuis une dizaine de jours, nous en avons déjà vus des tonnes! Et pas seulement dans la jungle, les petits coquins se faufilent jusque dans les restaurants pour allez faire leur épicerie! Très mignon...jusqu'à ce qu'ils s'approchent de vous en dévisageant voracemment votre repas! Autre animal très présent ici mais un peu moins rigolo, le varant. C'est un TRES gros lézard, qui fait partie de la famille du dragon de [View Full Entry]

By zephyrbc
July 2nd 2008

Kuala Terengganu Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

Zanial Abidin Mosque

Surprisingly our Air Asia flight from KL was actually on time so we arrived in Kuala Terengganu at about 4pm. We intended on spending about 3 days in KT, however on the drive to our hotel we were already planning our escape. It was just a town, nothing particularly interesting to see or do. We ended up spending about 1.5 days there not doing a whole lot although we did go for a walk around the city to see the Sultan's Palace, a mosque, the foreshore etc. The Sultan's Palace wasn't particularly impressive. The building itself was alright, however he had [View Full Entry]

By Twig
March 21st 2008

Kuala Terengganu & Around... Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

From the Perhentian Islands we took a boat back to the mainland and from there we took a a very packed public bus to Kuala Terengganu. We didn't have much planned for our time there but I hoped that we would get to visit Kenyir lake- the largest man made lake in Asia. We checked into a mediocre hostel and enjoyed our first McDonald's in a long time! Malaysia is a predominantly Muslim country and this was more evident in Kuala Terengganu (and the journey there) than it had been on the islands. Pork was off the menus and the women [View Full Entry]

By pggo
March 30th 2007

Back to KL, then Kuala Terengganu Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

2007-03-12 12-44-09

On March 9 (Friday), we flew from Denpasar, Bali to Kuala Lumpur. We got in at around 9 pm (after a few hours of delay by Air Asia) and took a taxi to our guesthouse. We have about 2 weeks to tour Malaysia and could not decide on which places to visit. We thought we could visit Kota Baru (northeast end of Malaysia) and the Perhentian Islands, and then work our way south to Singapore. The next morning, we went to the bus station and tried to get bus tickets to Kota Baru. We quickly learned that it is now [View Full Entry]

By jenstanley
September 24th 2006

Batik, Cultuer and A & E Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

Hello, hope your all well. We are in Kuala Terengganu at the moment which is one of only three places in Malaysia with a Malay majority so it's all very cultural and well Malay. But most interesting news first...we had our first trip to A & E yesterday. Sam managed to walk into a bit of low metal roof and hit his head pretty badly. He was talking complete jibberish and shouting a lot so I inspected his head and found it was bleading. He was still talking jibberish so I got a taxi and we went to the local hopsital. [View Full Entry]

By Sam_W
September 24th 2006

Smack - Owwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

A Malay Woman Carefully Paints a Batik Design

- right into an overhead post. I was pretty dizzy for the next few seconds and a little confused. Jen got me to sit down and when some poor old Malay guy came to see what had happened I started shouting at him: "Yes? Do you see anything interesting?". She sprayed so much disinfectant on my scalp that it was running down my face and into my mouth (disinfectant tastes bad). I was talking fast - very fast, asking Jen questions and then answering them myself. Probably the adrenaline. I found a bit of blood trickling through my hairline and [View Full Entry]

By mel andy
May 14th 2006

Kuala Terenganu, A local place for local people. Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Kuala Terengganu

I feel like chicken tonight, chicken tonight.

The last time you had heard from us we were in Jerantut. From here we decided to go to Kuala Terengganu (a strict Muslim city) for a couple of days as we had time to kill and we read that it might have been an interesting stop over, off the tourist track, on our way to Pulau Perhentian. Rather than do the jungle train that gets you into the jumping off point for the Perhentians at silly o'clock at night. On the bus ride we headed up the east coast and passed through lots of little Kampungs (villages) some with just [View Full Entry]

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