Standby in Kota Bharu on 4 Apr 2011 as the names on chopper have been cancelled last minute. Well, just take it like a paid holiday. Of course, slept in the morning, trying to recover from the recent hectic work schedule. Had the famous local Nasi Kukus for lunch @ around 3.00pm after a brief tour at the Pasar Besar Siti Khadijah.
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| Pasar Besar Siti Khadijah |
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| Nasi Kukus, yummy |
Office called, if by afternoon there was no chopper booking on the following day, we might need to return to KL, save cost mah... flight at 4.30pm... so after had lunch, had to head back to hotel, in case have to leave KB. At about 3.30pm, office called, and we stayed... good... means I got the chance to go visit places in KB, hehehe...
Started my cuti-cuti KB at about 4pm. First stop, Wat Pothivihan, where Sleeping Buddha statue is situated. After half an hour journey passing through Kelantan River, small villages, I reached this temple. It is a big and peaceful place. According to the taxi driver, people here are the Thai descendants, they speak Thai language here as well. I find that the monks do speak Mandarin as well. There are many Buddhism books in chinese language. Had coconut drink there too, the tables are under trees, which is cooling and relaxing. There is a Kuan Ying statue in a pond, it was dirty and full of fungus. I asked the monk about it, and he asked me, oh do you wanna go clean it? haha, so I said, why not. He found a cloth for me, and I jumped into the pond (water only knee high) and started cleaning the statue. I couldn't clean it thoroughly I didn't have the tool to clean parts of it. The bottom part is just too dirty, I simply couldn't clean it with that already not so clean cloth. After that I 'Hui Xiang' my deeds to my big sister up there. Hope she receives it.
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| Wat Phothivihan |
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| Sleeping Buddha, even Muslim friends come visit too |
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| Different version of Mi Le Fo |
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| Sleeping Buddha overview |
After that went to another temple where there is a big Sitting Buddha, called Wat Mai Suwan Khiri. At that time it was already 6.30pm, so didn't spend much time there. Took few photos then ciao.
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| Sitting Buddha |
On the way to another temple, we detoured to Pangkalan Kubor, the border between Malaysia and Thailand. Too bad the immigration closed at 6pm, didn't make it to Thailand side. Maybe it's good that I didn't make it there since it's still not very safe in South Thailand these days.
The last destination is theWat Chonprachumthat or the Dragon temple. It was almost dark already. Good time always passed by so quickly. Luckily still managed to take few photos there, thanks to my expensive camera.
Overall, I like what I see here in Kota Bharu. Definitely will recommend to friends for visits here ;-)
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| 2 types of kuih muih found here in KB. I love the left hand side kuih |
