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Kota Bharu Slideshow
Kota Bharu
Travel Blogs from Kota Bharu, Malaysia
Overnight train journey - oh dear!
... the children will get more out of the experience of a 13 hour overnight train journey from Singapore up to the North East of Malaysia - won't they??!!! Let's wait and see. At least we can sleep in the knowledge that the next day we will be in Paradise! ...
The Beautiful Perhentian Islands!
So, once I'd got myself to the bus station for the right time of day I was ready to join the night bus to Kuala Besut, the best place to catch the boat to the Perhentians. I wasn't so keen on having to go on a night bus again, but this one was much ...
Jungle train and rat land
... of the seat - rank! After about 6 hours of travelling we arrived at Whata Bharu from here we were instructed to get a taxi into Kota Bharu. We were accosted by a taxi driver on the platform and after Tom tried a bit of bartering we managed to get a ...
"Welcome to paradise..."
... goes slower then we'd expected. We got up at 7.00, but at 12.00 we were only 45 kilometres further. We reach the border of Malaysia at 16.30, and then you can set the time one hour later. We are not going to get to our final destination (Perhentian ...
extended pitstop
We're staying longer than expected in Kota Bharu, but I'm able to buy Guinness at the Chinese stalls so it's not all bad. All the accommodation on the little islands within a few hours travel are booked up by holidaying europeans in the know. Real shame. ...
Perhentian Islands
Perhentian Islands, Malaysia: The trip from Kota Bharu on the mainland to the Perhentian Islands was relatively hassle free really, apart from the 'ferry' - a little speedboat packed with 12 backpackers & 6 or so locals pelting over the ocean getting ...
Perhentian Pit-Stop
Highlights: The room we stayed in was quite nice and the owner of the place was really helpful. Very much a stopover town though. Lowlights: The 2nd Minivan was cramped, to say the least. We were glad to get off and stroll over the border! Trawling the ...
Kota Bharu - Ramadan time in the muslim city
Kota Bharu is said to be the most conservative city in the mainly Muslim Malaysia. When we visited here, it was just in the middle of Ramadan month(Fasting month - Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink between sunrise to sunset). Almost all ...
Las verguenzas de Kelantan discurren a descubierto
... mundial. Se me ha hecho algo raro salir de alli y volver a ver la luz -y las venas de la ciudad. Y, sin embargo, Kota Bharu es encantador de una forma dificilmente explicable; es algo que hace la gente. Te saludan por la calle, incluso desde los coches; ...
One big, happy, disfunctional family
My stay in Kota Bharu was uneventful. Even though it's a reasonably big town, there is nothing for tourists to do. Ok, that's a lie. There is a 'Customs' museum I visited. Nothing to do with customs as in airports but customs as in traditions. And it ...
Sun, sea, sand, sangsom, shisha & snorkelling
So I probably should have gone somewhere different Taman Negara perhaps or maybe another Malaysian island but unfortunately I just can't help myself and am in love with the Perhentians so I went there for a fifth time. We left the sweltering heat of ...
Cabin Fever
I don't know what it is about islands, but they are the most beautiful places to go to but once i'm there after a day or 2 I just want to be off! Weirdo! This morning we got all packed up and checked out at 11, to go and get the boat. It wasn't supposed ...
Kota Bharu stopover
... time here in the last year, each time staying one or two days in the city. This time we decided to spend 2 nights/1 day in Kota Bharu in the Kelantan province. This area borders Thailand and is only an hour's flight from KL. We arrived late in the ...
The Stare
It's almost always worth it, but let's face it......travel can be a real bitch. Back in the little port of Mersing, we were eating Pattaya rice at a small restaurant, waiting for our 10 hour bus ride to begin. It was 11pm and the bus was already one ...
Day 2
Day 2 (20/04/06) Woke up around 1030...didn't want to wake up initially...so by the time we went Bella Vista for our breakfast/lunch, it was 11:30am..The meal consists of fried prawns, steamed fish, some veges, tomyum soup and rice. Somewhere during ...
Sep 06, 2010
Kota Bharu
Thoroughly disappointed with what Kota Bharu had to offer. In fact we spend the whole time trying to get out of the place but couldn't! The Central Market had everything; there was so much squid juice and fish guts on the floor we could hardly get ...
first days in Malaysia
... were in England as the air conditioning on the bus was freezing, it was raining really hard; there was a Tesco outside the window. Malaysia is allot like England in quite a few ways, the plugs are like ours and the people can speak perfect English. The ...
I'm Lovin' It
... but not quite refreshed because we forgot to eat lunch, Brian and I somehow managed to crawl down the stairs into the lively streets of Kota Bharu. Being in the middle of everything, we had many options. But once I took a few steps out the ...
Visit Malaysia 2007
... bus took forever (don't they always?) and there was a time difference of one hour forward with Thailand, we missed the last bus into Kota Bharu and had to take a taxi *gasp*! The guy was cool though and it did start to rain. Like the guidebook warned us ...
One last day of diving
Today I dove at a different dive ship called Steffen's. It was cool because we dove with this local guy named Rick who could stay under for hours on a single tank of air. The man was a freaking fish! We dove at this site called T3 and I must say, this ...
A fitting place for the final salute to Asia
... given the last seats on the bus which were at the back. There was no way to recline and my legs are not the norm in Malaysia - the result being that there was no chance I could sleep. What made matters worse was that I was stuck reading an awful book. I ...