Day 19 is another travel day.
We arrive in Kota Bharu – our last stop along the east coast – around 1:30pm. We get ourselves sorted with our accommodations for the next couple of days and spend the rest of Day 19 & 20 exploring the city.
The highlight of the town is the central market, housed in a three-storey octagonal building. The market is the biggest one we have seen yet and every level is different; the ground level is full of vegetables, fruit, sweets & fish, the second level has dry goods & food stalls (for eating) with the largest prawns I have ever seen, and the third level is filled with batik & songket cloth, saris, men’s shirts, hats, etc.
To mix things up a little from our regular day-to-day activities (if you can call it regular), on Day 20 Eric and I see a self-defense demonstration at the cultural centre. The demonstrators performed a traditional Malaysian martial arts routine to traditional Malaysian music.
We finish up our visit at the night market. We had tried to find it on Day 19, but went in the wrong direction… no loss though – we ended up finding a cool shopping market and I got a new pair of pants.
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