Kota Bharu

Independence Field where some of the early anti-british freedom fighters were executed. The monument is to World War 1 soldiers and also to a lesser extent world war 2

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Four countries in five days

March 26th 2009
This blog was written on March 20 and Mach 24. So I’m sitting in the ferry from Jakarta to Batam. It’s a Pelni ferry, which is the large company which runs fast ferries all over Indonesia and have a virtual monopoly on many of the longer routes. The ferry is spic and span in much the same way that Malcolm Turnbull has a good handle on the Australian economy - that is to say, n ... read more

Asia » Malaysia » Kelantan » Kota Bharu

During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more

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