Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Monday, December 17, 2012

Kelantan - Tumpat One Day Trip (Part 2)

After visted to Wat Photivihan, we went to another temple. Yes, don't feel weird. There are actually a numbers of temples in Kelantan although this is an islamic state. The next temple we visited was Wat Mai Suwankiri. (龙船寺) which is located in Tumpat too.

There is a 400 years old dragon boat and a  standing Buddha. We were amazed by the huge standing Buddha from the entrance and misunderstood that it was a Standing Buddha Temple. Instead, it is the famous Dragon Boat Temple. Opps, sorry for the mixing up.

Like other temples in Kelantan, the temple was constructed more than 100 years by craftman from Thailand. The interior of the main temple is such majestic.  You will be stunned by the huge gigantic Standing Buddha at top of the building.


ANother main attraction in the Wat Mai Suwankiri, the Dragon Boat.There are 4 dragons act as "guardian", and the boat is surrounded by water.



You will notice that I don't take many photos of each temple even I found that the architectual is amusing me.  One of the reasons is that I do not know whether the action of photographing inside the temple is prohibited, and another reason is the weather on that day is terribly hot.


I believe I will revisit all this temples plus some temples which are already on my list soon. Do stay tune for more updates .

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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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Thursday, September 06, 2012

Kuala Kurau

I had an intention to visit to Kuala Kurau all of a sudden. So I made up my mind to pay a visit to this town last Friday.


 Kuala Kurau is nearby Parit Buntar and Tanjung Piadang. Both these places are located under Kerian Distinct, which is north part of Perak. It is a very serene and beautiful place, which is by the side of sea. This is one f the fishing village in Malaysia. You can see the beautiful sea when you enter into the town.


You can see the fishing boats and sea in the town area. 

I feel that this is quite interesting part of the shoplots where there is a huge river in front of the shops and we need to walk through this bridges in order to go to the shops.

This is a flyover that connect Kuala Kurau town with 对面港。(I don't know the place in English)



Before the construction of the flyover, villagers from the 对面港 connect with Kuala Kurau using Ferry service. However, Kuala Kurau ferry service has stopped since year 2007. The flyover is built at the very end side of both 对面港 and Kuala Kurau town.



One of the local industries- drying salted fishes on a Sunny day.

A beautiful and serene scenery.


Okie...I found the temples in Kuala Kurau are in small size but cute. Renovated to make the temple looks good with tiles and new paint. Honestly, I like this supercute structure and design. 


Evening of Kuala Kurau.


I was trying to look for some local food during my visit to Kuala Kurau. However, it was a  Chinese Ghost Festival, and the Chinese were busy with the virtual or ceremony. Many shops were actually closed on that day. But luckily, I done some research regarding the local food there before I started my journey. So I finnaly found this crispy and yummy "Heah-ah-chi" at 对面港. You gotta ask for the locals regarding this stall that sold this food because without their guidelines, you will never able to find it. Trust me. I only able to look for it after a few attempts and guidance from a few villagers.


"heah-ah-chi" (prawn biscuit)






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Friday, August 24, 2012

Tambun Tibetan Temple


I have come across Motormouth's blog and I find this, Tambun Tibetan Temple. My god, please forgive me for not knowing there is such an amazing place in Ipoh although I am Ipohian.

I decided to pay it a visit during last Raya Break to look for this nice and beautiful temple. Before showing you some pictures of it, I would like to brief you information of this temple. :)

Tambun Tibetian Temple is known as Jingang Jing She by the Tambun locals and devotees. There is an Amithaba Buddha statue which stands 24 meters tall on top of the temple. It is the tallest Amithaba Buddha statue.

Here goes the pictures ....

 Stopped the car half way to the temple when I saw it across the lake side. It impressed me here.

Continued my journey to the Temple. Don't be surprised, you will need to pass through this small path in order to go to the temple.


Da~dang~~~ Once again I slowed down the car to take the photo when I saw it!!!





You can see the symbolic of the Tibetian Buddism Prayer Wheel in the temple.
Pass along the walk path where there are numbers of "Prayer Wheels" (转经筒) are set up. I was actually blur about the prayer wheels that built there although there is explaination regarding the wheel. I was then realized that we need to turn the prayer wheels when we walked along.

After I went home, I wanted so much to search more information of this prayer wheels. I would like to share it here so that YOU won't make the same mistakes as I do when you see prayer wheels in future.
According to Baidu, there are sutra inside the prayer wheels. It is believed that when we turn one time of the prayer wheels is equal we have finished chanting sutra for one time. We need to murmur "Om Mani Padme Hung" as we turn the prayer wheels. Any other instructions when we turn this prayer wheels? Yes, we need to turn it with right hand in clockwise direction.

 



This is the photo of the day that I satisfied the most.

 
Picture borrowed from Motormouth.





It is a bit tricky to find the signboard for this temple along Jalan Ampang. Just beware there is a junction with this signboard on your left if you come from Tambun Town or on your right if you come from Ampang area.


TAMBUN TIBETIAN TEMPLE
Off Jalan Ampang (Jalan Ampang Baru 6 in Google Maps)
Tambun, 31400 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
GPS : E101 8 41.4 N4 35 45.

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Kota Kinabalu Trip 哥打京那巴鲁之旅

真的要谢谢air asia,因为它让我实现了去很多地方旅行的梦想。因为二月又有promosion的关系,我又订了去哥打京那巴鲁的机票了。(将简称kk)

感谢Uncle Chong (朋友父亲)做我们的导游。其实第一天没有很多活动,因为到达kk机场已经中午,所以我们先去吃午餐。要先提一提,kk的消费还蛮高的。一顿个人份的烧肉饭要RM5.50,但是我得澄清它的分量是蛮大的。所以虽然贵,可是算物有所值吧。



吃饭时嗅到了新鲜出炉的面包,香味扑鼻而来,让让我们忍不住买了几个。



虽然有点贵,可是里头有很多桔子噢。


午餐

背后的建筑物真是yayasan sabah了。



我们如织的酒店,不错吧。又便宜又干净,而且在市区内哦。



第一站是先去拍照,地点是yayasan sabah的建筑物。可是,烈日当空下,我们是速战速决哦。真的是太晒太热了。由于第一天真的没有安排到什么节目,所以我们去了当地的购物中心1 borneo逛逛。过后才去了unimas走走看看。

晚上是自由行,我们去了旅店附近的Welcome Restaurant吃海鲜大餐咯。值得一提的是,若没有熟人介绍,相信我们会傻乎乎的去到别的昂贵的海鲜馆了。这件餐馆的地方还蛮隐蔽。我们找了一些时间才抵达目的地。

他们叫它小芥兰


奶油虾。。赞


清蒸石斑 (游水的鱼RM120/KG,没有游水的RM80KG)

其实还有一个螃蟹的照片,可惜一直上载不到它。这间店的螃蟹是RM18/KG而已。

晚餐后在KK市中心闲闲走走逛逛。

第二天早上,Uncle Chong 一大清早就来酒店接我们了。我们要去KUNDASANG了!!
Kundasang离KK市区还蛮有一段距离的。我们做了起码一个小时的车程才到达一个小市镇享用美味的的早餐。然后又匆匆继续旅程了。 然后uncle有待我们到一个像集市的地方。那里有很多小档口,都有卖纪念品,手信还有沙巴的土产。Uncle还请我们吃了黄梨。说真的,这里的黄梨超好吃的。又甜又多汁,名副其实的juicy。要进口里就喷出了满口甜甜的果汁,而且重点是不会割舌头。我吃过很多黄梨都会让我觉得舌头痛痛的,所以我没有很爱吃黄梨。但是这里的黄梨却让我一连吃下好多片,超赞。 逗留集市大约一个小时,我们又继续上路了。






吃黄梨吃到爽的样子^^


讨价还价



沿着去Kundasang的路程,我们都可以看待那雄伟的Mount Kinabalu。一个温馨小提示,去Kundasang的一时段山路,所以会晕车的朋友们最好自备些药物之类的防止晕车哦。由于天公不作美,看起来天黑黑要下雨似的, Uncle Chong就先载我们去泡温泉。这里有小型的jungle walk和走吊桥的活动,还有瀑布呢。可惜我们时间不足,不然我们可以去瀑布嬉水。而且听uncle介绍说瀑布那有天然的小鱼可以做fish spa呢。

要先提一提这里的收费,需要入门票,然后如果想要jungle walk(包括瀑布)需要另外收钱。Jungle walk之后我们才去泡温泉。温泉 有分公共温泉和室内温泉。公共温泉收费很便宜,可以几个人一共用一个(有很多公共温泉),可是我不建议大家泡这个温泉。一来这里的温泉的水流量很小,uncle说可能跑了一个小时水才会伸到膝盖部位。所以我们接纳uncle的建议租了两间室内温泉,大概一间可以容纳五六个人。价钱是会比公共温泉贵些,但是胜在有私人空间,而且温泉水可以几分钟内装满。


一路上都可以看到的摊子


沙巴好像很出名牛肉面,到处都挂着牛肉面的招牌。听说这档的牛肉面蛮好吃的。


到达温泉咯



要走几个这样的吊桥了。。。妈呀,我有畏高症叻。。

背后的就是jungle trakking的售票处了


图中一间一间的正是室内温泉了。


背后的水池就是集中温泉的池了。


莱佛士花耶


泡完温泉,我们还要做什么?

这这个是是我预算外的活动哦! 我们要去看莱佛士花(rafflesia)了。它是世界上最大的花朵,虽然色彩鲜艳,却会发出臭味。经过一轮杀价,我们终于以RM10一张票去看花了。原来莱佛士花身在山中,我们得走一段路终于看到它了。可惜,这朵很小,直径大概30cm里而以。当时的我是真的很失望,觉得十块钱看这么一朵小莱佛士花很贵。可是后来听uncle解释说原来莱佛士花开花不易,而且开花只有大概五天,然后就会枯萎了。因为不常有,所以当地人总是需要很常注意它的生长。而且我们去观赏这朵莱佛士花的时候是它开花第二天,它最美的是第二和第三天。


看了莱佛士花后,我们真的很匆忙的往kundasang最吸引我的地方出发了--》牧牛
场。还好我们来得及在牛奶厂关之前抵达。喝着刚买的一盒从冰箱拿出来的鲜牛奶,吹着山上的冷风,我要发抖了。这里的天气真的很冷,所以适合模样一群奶牛。哈哈,觉得我自己像到了纽西兰一样。天逐渐变暗了,不是下雨啦,而是晚上了。Uncle带我们到mount kinabalu公园(应该是登山者先要报到的地方)坐车环绕一圈。当车停在一边,我们冒着冷到发抖的机会走出车外,虽然天已经黑暗一片,可是我们趁着闪电发出的光芒,望着对面那座雄伟的京那巴鲁山,心里却是十分的激动和感慨。

一群排队挤牛奶的母牛

广告代言人?


过后我们又用了大约两个小时下山。回到市区,我们也很累了,所以也懒得想要去走走,就去回昨晚的那间餐馆用餐就是了。









又是一天的好开始。逗留在KK应经的三天了,今天我们要去附近的岛屿游玩了。这里的海水蛮清晰,比我之前去的pangkor和port dickson清晰的多了。这里我先出了我很多的第一次。第一次玩这种降落伞,第一次浮潜,第一次我看到了让我难忘的海底世界,让我惊叹不已。第三天没有什么可以写,因为都是在岛上玩而已。下午前我们就回到市区了。去寻找一当听说很好吃的肉骨茶,逛了菲律宾市场。。。
KK码头
第一次玩这个,因为没有戴眼睛的关系,而且也不懂他怎么操作,一开始还没有身上去的时候是很怕的,后来却大喊还要再来的也是我,哈哈。

第一次浮潜的结论,海水是超咸的。

菲律宾市集

意大利面糖水?


哇,龙虾耶!他开价RM100一直给我们,我觉得是欺骗游客的。

KK的日落。



我们在KK只是停留四天。第四天早上,我们去吃了生肉面。这生肉面可是我第一天到kk的第一天
就已经听过的食物呢。今天终于有机会去品尝了。过后我们就在市区走走,然后去了机场附近的一个海滩。收拾了复杂的心情,回去了!

生肉面
KK的一面

一个我只是知道靠近机场的海滩,很优美的景色。


比起之前的旅行,这是一个全新体验的旅程旅程。贴近大自然,没有注重食物的旅程。


p/s: 这篇游记拖了这么久,竟然是我在上班得空的时候写完的,很汗颜。><

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