Kelantan - Tumpat One day Trip (part 1)

Due to boringness here, we decided to go for one day trip nearby. You see, life here is like very peaceful and back to those time when our parents were young. No cinema, no shopping complex , no city entertainment here. Gonna find something to keep ourselves happy, right?

Upon some very last minutes google search before falling asleep, we came out with some lists of visit : a) Wat Photivihan (the sleeping buddha) at Tumpat. OK, at least one choice had been chosen. We believed we can go for other places of interest with the little help from GPS.

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Something happened during the trip, where we had accidentally set the wrong destination( we set the wrong wat name. U know, there are too many wat-wat here with long name where we can't really remember). No wonder why it leads us to Bachok la, luckily we believed with our instinct and we got some help from the locals. Oh, forget to mention, the locals here are friendly,which is a different norm from our west coast.

Soon, reaching our first destination -- >  Wat Machimaram at Tumpat. When you see the huge sitting buddha from the roadside, you will feel that are the hard works to find the location do worth.

Magnificent Sitting Buddha can be seen from the road side. Don't worry if you scare you can't look for the location, because the signboard of the temple is along the road when you reach Tumpat.

Wat Machimmaram contains a large statue of the Seating Buddha, that is 30 metres high and 18 metres wide. This Seating Buddha took 10 years to build by the skilled craftsmen from Thailand, and its was completed in 2000. Wat Machimmaram located in Kampung Jubakar, Tumpat and occupies over 2.4 hectares. The Thai group will conduct the religious celebration at the Wat such as Wesak Day, Kahtinna, Loy Krathong, Saibat, Songkran, and so forth. (source : http://dhammapath.blogspot.com/2010/10/wat-machimmaram-seating-buddha-tumpat.html). 

After that, we went to Free Trade  Zone  of Pengkalan Kubor. This FTZ is just located at Thai Border. To get there, we need to pass through a police checkpoint. Although it is a FTZ, I still find the items here mostly more or less same in our shopping complex. Kind of feel like being cheated. Can't even buy my lovely chocolates as they are not cheap. Mark you, you won't able to find any alcohol drinks here. Almost end up with disappointment but at last something there to cheer me up. 

 I called it rainbow ice cream because the ice cream is so coloured full, with only RM2 you can have a full cup of ice creams, with bread and glutinuous rice at bottom, topping with jellies, peanuts and corns. DOn't try to choose any flavour, the colourful of the ice cream is the trend mark.

After hanging in Pengkalan Kubor end up buying not much and under a huge hot sun, we moved to Wat Photivihan.

The temple houses a 40-metre statue of a sleeping Buddha, which is the longest of its kind inSouth East AsiaThe devotees of this temple are mainly ethnics Thais , and the temple itself is a typical Thai  Buddhist temple.（Source: wiki).

(to be continued)

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