The beach called Pantai Cahaya Bulan

Continued from Pengkalan Datu river at its mouth.

Later in the afternoon we went to the strip of beach known as Pantai Cahaya Bulan.

Pantai is the Malay word for beach, Cahaya means light and Bulan the moon.

So Pantai Cahaya Bulan literarily means the moonlight beach.

However this beach facing the South China Sea used to be more popularly known as Pantai Cinta Berahi.

Cinta means love and Berahi, passionate. So Pantai Cinta Berahi means the beach of passionate love.

Locals simply abbrevivated it as PCB. Later the name Cinta Berahi is deemed to sound very sexual, encouraging couples to commit things they should not have done before getting married. And thus the later government of Kelantan who consider themselves more Islamic decided to change it to something more innocent sounding.

As the abbreviation PCB has become so popular they have to maintain that.

And so the beach became known as Pantai Cahaya Bulan, the fact that it does bask in moon light at times notwithstanding.