Kota Bharu, Malaysia Travel Blogs

Malaysia: Final Thoughts
May 27, 2008 (18 photos)

We stopped over here on our way to the Perhentians and now we spend one more night here before crossing the border to Thailand. Kota Bharu is an interesting town to spend a day in. It is known as the Islamic city and it is not touristy. As such you get a ...

Malaysia - Kota Bharu
Feb 27, 2007 (68 photos)

Reaching Kota Bharu, a small city in the north east of Malaysia, we jumped into a taxi and found our hostel. We had opted to take a risk and go budget for the night. The hostel was called Ideal Travellers Lodge but on first impression it seemed far from ...

In theory it was a good idea!
Dec 6, 2003

... a couple of Danes at Immigration and, after much obligatory haggling with the driver, we shared a taxi into the town of Kota Bharu. At this point I got confused with exchange rates between the pound, Thai baht, Cambodian riel, Vienamese dong, Malaysian ...

Kota Bharu
Jun 28, 2008

Kota Bharu

Time for a Tiger!
Feb 6, 2006 (11 photos)

... I was afraid to drink anything because we only stopped once for a bathroom break - and my first squat toilet experience - we arrived in Kota Bharu. And let me tell you, this was not the little sleepy town of Dad's stories. KB as it is now called, is now ...

Chapter 27: Snakes!
Feb 23, 2004 (15 photos)

... city with cheap bootlegged entertainment. Today I rode across the country again along the Thai border to the east coast city of Kota Bharu, which is steeped in traditional Malay culture. I raided the night market for dinner and had some local specialties: ...

Kota Bharu, where there's nothing to do at all
Sep 9, 2007 (8 photos)

... in the back, making it rather hard to sleep.           Wingeing aside, i arrived in Kota Bharu safe and sound, caught up on the sleep I'd missed, then checked out the markets here. The towns only supposed ...

Mainland
Oct 28, 2005 (1 photos)

If you have ever dreamt of paradise this is it!!
Sep 14, 2009

... sleep we hop on our mini bus, collect a bunch of others heading for the Perhentians also and off we go!! The roads in Malaysia are remarkably better than those in Indonesia but it doesn't mean the drivers are...!! Our driver swerved his way in and out of ...

Now you see us now you don't!!
Sep 17, 2009

I open my eyes, leap out of bed, check my ipod which reads 4.39 am UK time and I pull back the mosi net on Carolyns bed to tell Dom it's 9.39am here and he is late for diving!! Hang on a minute Domiic isn't there...just a startled Carolyn who is obviously ...

Kota Bharu and Pehentian islands
Mar 4, 2009 (17 photos)

... so we only gave 10 USD, just to take the bus (1 USD for 45km!Eat your heart out Bus Eireann) We finally arrived in Kota Bharu to our guest house after 12 hours of travelling. We eat at the local food court and Sean gets some extremely spicy Nasi Goreng. ...

A burnt bum
May 11, 2009

... well as random alcohol raids they do urine testing for drugs, but only on the Muslim population. This part of Malaysia (Kelantan) has very strictly enforced Muslim laws. Alcohol is only available from Chinese outlets (of which there are very ...

Rainforests and stuff
Feb 7, 2008

And here we are, back to the present. We are heading to thailand tommorow and are in a town called kota bharu which has an inviting slogan of "the islamic city". From kuala lumpur we headed to an area of rainforest called taman negara which involved two ...

Another Grand Prix and Finally a Beach!
Mar 20, 2003 (11 photos)

... for comfort. Would more than recommend a visit to the island before it inevitably turns into a resort island. Kota Bharu is the Muslim capital of Malaysia so much so that most of the women wear headscarfs and everyone should really cover up. The city ...

Back on the mainland
May 6, 2008

... be spitting toothpaste on the floor, peeing in any old random hole we find, eating with our fingers, etc. etc! The town of Kota Bharu itself seems quite nice - we didn't really do that much sightseeing though, it was a bit hot. We did however come ...

Malaysia Kota Bharu
May 21, 2008 (4 photos)

Wed 21st May. * HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MAM + DAD* Today we spent the day in Kota Bharu, the state capital,  north east Malaysia, by the Thai border. We've had a brilliant day, the locals are very friendly and as interested in us as we are them. We ...

Passing through Kota Bharu (KB)
Jul 1, 2009 (5 photos)

... . A joggled night's sleep (like trying to sleep on a camp bed while it rolled down a mountain) and 8 hours later we were in Kota Bharu at 4-30 am! As you can imagine there wasn't a lot happening at that time. A taxi driver directed us to the Bunga Raya ...

auf dem weg nach thailand
Feb 8, 2005 (15 photos)

bin also nach langer busfahrt (8h) im hohen norden von malaysia angekommen. die provinz kelantan ist die aermste in malaysia und wird von der islamischen partei regiert. die haben erstmal gleich nach der machtuebernahme getrennte parkbaenke fuer ...

Kota Bharu
Aug 7, 2006 (5 photos)

... dopravila do pristavu, ale cekali jsme na mistni bus asi dve hodiny, ale jelikoz neprijel tak jsme museli si vzit taxi.Kota Bharu se nam moc libilo.Male mesto plne malaiskych tradicych.Mistni lide jsou uzasny velice pratelsky.Nasli jsme i super hostel jen ...

Perentian Islands
Apr 4, 2006 (8 photos)

... probably no more than a thousand feet or so. Eventually we arrived at the pier on the outskirts of the town of Kota Bharu. An isolated little place with nothing much round about the few small industial looking unit. Most of these were empty with ...

Kota Bahru
Sep 26, 2007

Ramadam was in full swing when we arrived in Malaysia. This meant that all Muslim run eateries were closed in the day until after sundown, after which time they could all fill up on the food and water that they had been abstaining from since sunrise. Their ...

Border Frustrations!
Apr 20, 2009 (1 photos)

... crossing with Malaysia that does not issue them--besides the rail station crossing on the far side of the country. We returned to Kota Bharu to attempt to get a visa from the Thai consulate only to arrive too late to submit our application. It being a ...

Rotta.. eda edla...??
Sep 8, 2009

Hildur skrifar: Vid Kristin komum til paradisar eyjarinnar Perhentian sidasta manudag (7.sep). Lentum i eyjunni beint i heitan sjo og hvitan sand, umm. Roltum af stad a tanum i sandinum og fundum okkur aedislegan gististad, A laga kofi med hengirum fyrir ...

Country Number 8
Sep 30, 2006

... between Thailand and Malaysia at 9 pm so Amy can get scared of the loud bangs and men with big guns in the dark. Kota Bharu was our first Malaysian town. It's right in the north and the difference in culture from country to country after just walking a ...

Catching the jungle train with Jon
Jun 25, 2009 (2 photos)

... , before Jonny left for Koh Tao. So we separated again, but again we met in southern Thailand, where we travelled together to Malaysia. In Wakaf Bahru, the starting point of the Jungle Rail, we caught the 4am train south and in Jerantut with tears in ...

Paradise
Jul 21, 2007 (9 photos)

Hello again, i left you last time just before we got on a bus heading towards the Perhentian islands, which in fact turned out to be a land-rover with no seat belts and a mad driver (well mad in English standards but just normal over here). After a air ...

On the east west highway
May 13, 2009

13th May 2009 Jelita Inn, Jeli, Malaysia Kuala Bersut - Jeli (120 kms) It's raining This morning we got up at 5.30, as we normally do, in order to set off at 6am, not even thinking about the time difference. At 6am it's still dark, ...

Off to Kota Bharu
Mar 25, 1992

Taxi from Hat Yai to the border, then walked across a bridge to Malaysia. Another taxi to Kota Bharu.

Muslim hub
May 16, 2006

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A Day With the Locals
Apr 12, 2003

Kota Bharu, considered to be Malaysia's Muslim heartland, is boasted for their night market where the best food in Malaysia is to be found. We were looking forward to an evening feast in the open market, planning to only spend the night and head off to ...