Peace be upon you all. After leaving this blogspot unattended for almost a month let me start making new postings. Continuing the stories of my trip to the East Coast 26 March - 4 April...
In the last article on the trip, Crossing
the Terengganu river to Pulau Sekati made 24th April I mentioned how me and family rushed to a part of Kuala Terengganu just to get to an island accesible by a pedestrian/motorcyclist wooden bridge. The night was then spent in Jertih near the Kelantan state border before we entered the state then spent the following night in its capital city, Kota Bahru. The next morning, Friday 30th March is when this new story starts... by making a visit to a certain rural place some 25 km outside of the city...
The place is called Tanah Serendah Sekebun Bunga which could be loosely translated as the lowlands flower garden. It is associated with two olden Kelantanese legendary personalities, the old Kelantan kingdom female ruler Cik Siti Wan Kembang and her adopted daughter, the princess known as Puteri Saadong.
Here's bit of story on Cik Siti Kembang and how/why she decided to open Tanah Serendah Sekebun Bunga after having ruled from a number of locations.
This signboard says it happened about 300 years ago. But I understand it was actually close to 400 years ago...
Now let's take a walk inside.
You can see a lake, a rather elongated one.
I was told the lake was actually part of the nearby Kelantan river. It was probably a bend which became separated from the main body of water due to silting and such.
Most probably it was still part of the Kelantan river during Cik Siti Wan Kembang's time. Now let's look at other parts of the garden.
There's this hut for visitors.
Tables and makeshift chairs made in modern time of course.
Actually I've featured this place in the article The
place called Taman Serendah Sekebun Bunga made a year ago.
But it was based on a visit to the East Coast made during rainy season end of 2010.
Thus then I never went further than this gate.
For reasons unclear, the parts after are made off-limits to the public.
This time I decided to explore as far as I can.
But I didn't find anything peculiar except the lake stretched for almost 200 metres long.
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