CLASS TRIP: Malay Art and Culture Part 2

Continuing from my last posts...









Day 3 (August 17th)

This day we went to KB crafts where they make hand made silverware and jeweleries. The price was quite reasonable and their skill of making it amuse me. They can even make jewelery out of those dimes and nickels if you wanted to.
Next to it was the wau making workshop. Wau is a malay kite usually is very large and makes buzzing sound during flight. There are many types of waus but most common is the wau bulan which it looks like a crescent moon at the bottom of it. It is usually decorated with batik pattern.

Then we went to Cik Minah Songket where we see how they produce Songket (Cloth material which is weaved with thousands of strings to produce patterns). They have a shop upstairs and i actually bough some stuff there..hehehe
After that we went to a batik factory..forgot the name of it. Anyway..we watched how they made batik design on silk with wax and coloring it. So we gave it a try...
It was late evening we went to the Muzium. We only had a couple of minutes there till it closes.
Well its better than nothing.
After that we went around town and went to the famous marketplace. It was damn stuffy but full of interesting items. Bough some shredded beef jerkies traditionaly made..yummy.

Day 4 (August 18th)

That morning we checked out and headed to Kandis resource center. Another master craftman, a wood carver. It was the late Nik Rashidin's home and workshop. It has become his gallery of past works and collection.

After that we went on to Desa Ukir, more collection of master craftman's work and a study place for young carvers to master techniques and philosophy of wood carving (traditional malay style)

Then a couple of hours of bus ride to our next destination Terengganu. We arrived very late that night at Pantai Indah resort. It was right next to the beach...that night we checked in but we wanted to explore the area. We went on a late night beach walk till we saw A&W...wowza!!! hahaha...we ate there..very very late supper..huhuhu..we then walked back...and went to bed about 3am..still planning to swim at the pool before we go..

Day 5 (August 19th)

Its our last day!!! i woke up about 6.45am and looked out the balcony and saw the swimming pool signed that says "open from 7am to 8pm"...thats good enough form..without delay, called the guys and we all jumped in the pool. We were shouting and having a blast...the girls woke up and watched us by the pool and some watched from their balconies. Breakfast isn't serve till 8..so we just fool around and took some underwater pics..


At 9am we went straight to Muzium Terengganu at Losong. Its tremendously huge!!! with all the original architecture and boats surrounding it. We minggle around there but couldn't finish touring the whole place..such an interesting muzium...i suggest that next time we have to be there the whole day coz that day we had to go early for home. We stopped at pasar payang another market place and then off we go...back home...

We arrived late like 2am and we slept the whole night...satisfied but not too satisfied..hehehe..we wanted more!!!

enjoying the moment













With some of the classmates