East Coast Malay Peninsualr

6 miles South of Kuala Terengganu off the highway towards the ocean is beautiful beah called Chendering where I had spent alot of my teenage years swimming and diving. The beach uased to be clean and the sea relatively calm a great place to spend an afternoon.

The atap houses are geting to be a rare sight as time progresses and development takes over. These rustic dwellings were a nostalgic sight for me as i was born and spent a good number of years growing up in such houses and surroundings.

To most it is quite unimaginadle on how it nust have felt to live under such conditions expecially in the days when there was no electricity and the water comes out of wells.

Most of these homes were built on stilts for obvious reasons such as avoiding floods, the creepy crawlers, domesticated animals such as chickens goats and the likes, keeps the houses airy etc.

As these sketches are a few years old it is highly doubtful that these sites exist as they are anymore. The above scene was done from the Marang bridge located about 12 miles from Kuala Terengganu. Last is saw it the place has be transformed or upgraded.

Drying fish in Seberang Takir located right across the river from K.Tr.

Below a view of the rice field located directly across from the Istana Badariah and I spent few years of my teenage exploring this fields.

The 'launch' of ferry boats that takes one to and from K.Tr. and Seberang Takir on the Terengganu River mouth.

Typical fishing boats common in Terengganu.