On top Kuala Terengganu's 'floating' mosque

Peace be upon you all. The last article here, Reliving some childhood moments at Muar's Masjid Jamek made almost a month ago showed pictures from on top the Muar mosque. Now let's see some from Kuala Terengganu.

The Muar article was made on 1st August. The day after me and family including my mum and dad went to Terengganu. On the following day we visited the famous white 'floating' mosque at Kuala Ibai just outside the city of Terengganu.

It is called the 'floating' mosque because it is surrounded by water. I have been here a number of times but it was only in this recent trip that I suddenly got the urge to try something new.

I felt like climbing up the mosque's tower and soon find the way...

A view from halfway up.

There were still a number of ladders to climb up.

On to the highest part.

Savouring views from every angle...

Reliving some childhood moments at Muar's Masjid Jamek

Continued from Muar river from an esplanade at Tanjung Agas.

That night I went to Masjid Jamek, Muar's main mosque to conduct the Tarawih prayers. For information Tarawih prayers are supplementary or extra/optional prayers conducted at night in the Muslim fasting month of Ramadhan.

This mosque is very special to me as I grew up spending a lot of time praying, also playing around here. I decided to relive some of the memories by climbing up to the upper levels of the mosque which is actually off limits to the public.

This parts are only opened to mosque officials especially for maintenance purpose.

I remember when I was very young, probably around 6-7 years old looking up to the tower wishing I could go up to savour the views.

And 2 years later of so I have developed enough strength, confidence and dexterity to do so.

See the pool down there? As the doors concealing the staircases leading up to these parts were mostly locked throughout the year it is no mean feat to get here. I used to climb from the lowest level, besides the pool that is to get up.

If I remember correctly I only got up 2 or 3 times via staircase.

Now let's just savour the views as I lived up the childhood moments...

A view of the mosque from outside.

Muar river from an esplanade at Tanjung Agas

Peace be upon you. Last weekend me and family returned to my home town in Muar. That's when I brought the kids to a shopping complex in Tanjung Agas which sits on the northern banks of the Muar river.

Near the shopping complex is an esplanade which if I'm not mistaken was built about 3-4 years ago.

This area used to be full of mangrove trees. Now one could get a clear view of the surroundings, especially the quite vast Muar river.

A look downstream.

You can see the Muar old bridge. The Muar river mouth is 1-2 km away to the right.

A look across. The long building is the Muar market.

A look upstream. Muar's 2nd bridge, completed 10 years ago if I'm not mistaken lies 1-2 km to the right.

Pasar Karat, the "Rusty Market" of Muar

Peace be upon you all. Enter the first article here since the Muslim fasting month of Ramadhan arrived 2 weeks ago.

Last weekend we returned to my native home town, Muar and visited its Pasar Karat Santai. It is a variety of the Pasar Karat, a type of flea market for antique goods. Pasar is the Malay word for market and Karat means rusty referring to old metal goods which tend to get rusty over time. Santai means relaxed. It is added to the words Pasar Karat as a local variety of this type of flea market which has existed in some part of Malaysia for ages.

I understand this one in Muar was opened just over half a year ago. There is another one smaller just a kilometre or so away opened about 3 months earlier.

Actually these pictures were taken on our first visit 2 months ago.

But I didn't take pictures in our next visit last weekend. So let these ones show you around.

p/s : Actually this Pasar Karat is situated within the district of Ledang. Whatever, Ledang used to be a sub-district in Muar, only becoming a district on its own about 10 years ago if not mistaken. So personally I still like to identify Ledang as part of Muar.

Tahan river mouth

Continued from On to the more difficult part.

Before leaving Kuala Tahan I decided to have a last look at the Tembeling river.

Actually I wanted to have a better look at the place where the Tahan river flows into the Tembeling river. You see Kuala Tahan means the mouth of the Tahan river. That's how this place got its name.

A look across. That's where we landed to get into Taman Negara, the national park as shown in Enter Taman Negara.

To the left is the mouth of the Tahan river. 

For the record the river originated from Gunung (mount of) Tahan, the tallest mountain in Peninsular Malaysia.

A look downriver. And so water from the Tahan river flows into the Tembeling then into Jelai to form the Pahang river.