The nearest beach to Kota Bharu is Pantai Cahaya Bulan , or in short, the local call it PCB. In English, it means moonlight beach. Thus taking public transport to the beach , you should look for “PCB” instead of the long-winding Pantai Cahaya Bulan.
Pantai Cahaya Bulan isn’t a pretty beach compared to the Pantai Sri Tujuh, its name is misleading. And in fact, the beach name itself had been “downgraded” when the emphasized-morality PAS took over as Kelantan State Government. Previously it was called Pantai Cinta Berahi, meaning the love beach. While the state government do not want you to have too much daydreaming of the place full with love.
It’s not pretty because of its serious erosion here at the beach. There is no soft sand at the beach but only the big bulky stone preventing the wave of eating up the sand.
Well I think it’s only the location of it makes it attractive to the Kota Bharu people to folk here during the weekend. (well in Kelantan context, their weekend is Friday and Saturday ). So there are a lot of eatery stall along the beach, but they were all selling the similar food, which made you no idea which one to choose. For me , I walked till the end and gave chance to the farthest stall..
On the bus journey to Pantai Cahaya Bulan , there was another Japanese uncle, dressed very simply without any bag or water.
When we were busily taking photos on the beach, this Japanese uncle return from his Pantai Cahaya Bulan journey and waited for the next bus. He said this beach was boring without anyone selling the beer…. Hello brother , here is Kelantan- a Malay Muslim dominated place and you came here to look for beer ? are you borrowing a comb from a monk (Do nonsense thing)? What a alcohol addict.
Sun following us everywhere we went causing us felt so hot that nearly faint. The only solution would be coconut. Else we could have really fainted on the beach.
And a thought suddenly came to my head, will that Japanese continued his searching for beer in Kelantan , will he found the coconut alcohol instead at last?
There was nobody on the beach also, and Pantai Cahaya Bulan is quite small, considered a half-day settled tourist spot including having meal here.
If a bunch of friends were to arrange a bbq at the nearby hotel, it would be quite a good idea to chitchat with friend, while enjoying the sea breeze. But my advice is not to have it during the monsoon season else you will have difficulty setting up the bbq fire.haha
If you would like to spend little more time here, I suggest you to scroll along the main road, as there are many souvenir shops, but too bad, I couldn’t find any local made Batik, but all were imported from China. Too sad, Made in China is much cheaper than in Malaysia?
How to reach?
Take the City Liner no. 10 bus outside the Tourism Malayisa office.
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