Sunset shot from my balcony

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Guchil 3, my neighbourhood, this is where I grew up.

My grandparent's house

My parent's house

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Kuala Krai has good road links, with Federal Route 8 passing close to the town.

I attended secondary school here in 1996 until 2000.

New Town...

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The Bradley Stairs or ‘Tangga Bradley’. Built in the late 1920s (a Mr Bradley was District Officer then), it has 81 steps leading down to a floating platform where passengers can board boats for the 320-metre river crossing to the other side. And just 1,300m south of this spot, the mighty rivers Galas and Lebir meet to form Kelantan River.

Along the steps there are depth markers, very useful during end-of-year monsoon season when the depth of the inundated river at this spot provides valuable flood forecast for Kelantan River, especially for Kota Bharu almost 100 km downstream. That’s why Tangga Bradley is so famous, it’s a matter of life and death.

Kuala Krai KTM Railway Station, The railway station is on the Keretapi Tanah Melayu main line that runs from Tumpat and Wakaf Bharu (close to Kota Bharu) right through the interior of the country to Gemas on the west of the peninsula, where it joins the main west coast line from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur.

Kuala Krai Bus Station

Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Kuala Krai



Balai Bomba & Penyelamat Kuala Krai

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Taman Tasik Kuala Krai, is a urban parks around a man-made lake. The park was established as early as the 1950s and beautified with the construction of the lake in 1988.

Floating restaurant

Kuala Krai Bird Park, it used to be Kuala Krai Mini Zoo managed by the District Council. The Mini Zoo first opened in 1961, the only zoo to specialise exclusively in animals from the Malaysia jungle. Now, it is home to various kind of birds.

Hospital Kuala Krai (HKK) opened in 1917, built on a hill close to the town. It now serves a population of 200,000 in the southern part of Kelantan.

Old Town...

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My hometown, Kuala Krai, is a territory (jajahan) and town in the interior of the State of Kelantan in the north-east of Malaysia. Kuala Krai territory is a landlocked administrative area in the centre of the State of Kelantan. The land is hilly, and before the 20th century the entire area was tropical rain forest.

The territory contains the confluence of two major rivers, the Lebir and Galas, to form the Kelantan River, which then flows some 70 km northwards through one of the most densely populated flood plains on the Malay Peninsular to its estuary in the South China Sea near the State capital of Kota Bharu.

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