Blogs from Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, Asia - page 7

Hello! Well we are now in a place called Kota Bharu in the top east corner of Malaysia waiting until 9pm for a bus across the country so we can head into Thailand tomorrow and get to Ko Phi Phi (where the beach was filmed) and chill out again! We've had a great couple of days on Pulau Perhentian island which is a little paradise place where we just flaked out and did a bit of snorkelling to see huge turtles, lots of fish and a shark!!! I don't know how big it was but I swam so fast away to tell Craig that I didn't take it in! The only problem on this island was NO ALCOHOL!!! AAaarrrgh! No nice cocktails whilst lazing in a hammock! Rubbish! My tummy is now better - I think ... read more

Adrian Yeap's Wedding In Kota Bahru on 17 Nov 2007 My 1st TravelBlog site created in dedication to a special true friend Adrian a.k.a Tai Lo who wed his love of his life Ah Meng. May he lived happily ever after with his wife in the PAS ruled state! It was Friday 16 Nov 2007 - the day I made my 1st trip up to Kota Bahru, Kelantan for the first time ever. For some reasons, I arrived at KLCCT airport rather late (barely 1 hour before the departure time) and my good friend Ah Liang had to inform the pilot to hold the flight for me - well at least that was the sms I received from him seconds before I reached the airport. Being a frequent traveller to Miri, Sarawak, I got panicked for ... read more

well here we are in Kota Bharu by the seat of our pants and i will get to that later. we loved melaka and will have to back there as we did not see it all. the hotel was good though a bit out of town but we found the explorer bus that went past the hotel and that was such good value and ran till quite late so that worked out perfectly. the small streets of china town were wonderful and then we went to the museum, clibed the hill to the old church on the top and without my guide book handy cant remember the name but that is where jan van riebeecks wife is buried!!! so it was meaningful to me as a south african. anyway yesterday we caught the bus to kl ... read more

After a good sleep in Kenyir resort, I drove with the family to Kota Baru (KB). Since we have to pay for the breakfast in the resort, and still have some buns left over, we took a few quick bite and decided to take breakfast on the way to KB. At the checking out, we found that the boat fair was not inclusive in the hotel charges of RM120 per night. Later we paid the boat driver RM40 for both to and fro trips. The journey to KB was shorter compared to that to Kenyir and we started early at 10am so it was a leisure drive and not rushing. We stopped half way at Permaisuri town and took roti canai. The taste was so so. When getting nearer to KB we started to see vast ... read more

Hello, it's Ben. We are in Kota Bharu now, up on the north eastern tip of Malaysia. It is supposedly a very conservative, traditional islamic place, but so far in that respect it hasn't differed much from the other parts of mainland Malaysia we've seen. However, the singing to bring people in for prayer at the local mosque was the best i've heard in the country! It didn't have the spooky tinge we'd heard in places like Melaka, it was almost chirpy! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it as we wandered around the town today! On Pulau Perhentian Kacil (the long name!) i asked this guy Jason (a Malay from Kuala Lumpur) whether they were recordings or live performances and he said that most of the time they are live performances, even at 4.30 in the ... read more