Kota Bharu Cottage Industries Tour

Itinerary

You will be picked up from your hotel in Kota Bharu and taken in an air-conditioned vehicle on a tour of the various cottage and small-scale industries in the capital city of Kelantan.

The tour will take you to:

• A batik factory, where you can see lovely cotton clothes and wall hangings being decorated with beautiful prints and designs.

• A kite-making centre, where you will see kites of various sizes, colours and prints being produced.

• A silver-craft centre, to see jewellery being made in silver.

• You will also be introduced to songket, an intricately woven cloth of cotton (or silk) and skilfully interwoven with silver or gold threads.

• The highlight of this tour is the most photographed market in Malaysia, the Pasar Besar Siti Khadijah. It is a colourful market selling various local produce. There is always a hive of activity with opportunities to observe local practices of sale and purchase. 

If time permits, you will be taken to the Handicraft Village & Craft Museum in between the tour. Here, you get to learn the traditional and regional crafts and local crafting techniques.

At the end of the tour, you will be dropped back at your hotel in Kota Bharu.