Terman Termadun Islam (TTI)

Written by: Miss Pattama Nukul

I have heard a lot about Teranganu, Malaysia from my friends that there are many interesting places to visit for both of entertainment and education. The most interesting one is Terman Termadun Islam (TTI) which is a Theme Park display collection uniqueness result monuments famous Islamic architecture from all Islamic worlds. Before the trip was started, I had a beautiful dream about there. My imagination TTI was located in a prosperous city which had a lot of modern buildings and shopping malls and it was so crowed on both sides of the street to buy and sell something frantically.  Besides, there were traffic jams as general big cities I have seen.

It took 3 days for our trip, started on Saturday, 30 October -1November, 2010. In the late afternoon, our luxury Malaysia bus was leading us to Tenangan Hotel at Teranganu in order to taking a rest and saving energies to visit TTI tomorrow which was the day making my dream came true .We got there around 4 P.M. according to Malaysia time, then we checked in and separated to do our own responsibilities. The lightly sunshine shining of a new day was beginning together with everybody woke up lively with fresh and happy faces. Surprisingly, when I went out the hotel for waiting the bus to TTI, my eyes glimpsed at the picture of my friends who were showing off with trendy colorful clothes decorated brilliantly with diamond, it pictured me as standing in the Islamic Fashion Show. At the same time, many famous brand name and high quality cameras were used in that day in order to take every detail of all pictures they were going to see at TTI.

On the way, I noticed that it was not located in hearth of the city as my previous thought in contrast; it placed on the quiet and peaceful countryside. It took not too long from the hotel to TTI, around a half an hour. After a moment, my eyes sight glimpsed at the signboard having a message that “Welcome to TTI”. Suddenly my heart was fluttering faster and faster because I almost got the place that I dreamed for so long. While the bus was driving to the TTI’s area, the excitement and curiosity inspired everybody to stand up accidently to see many beautiful famous mosques that were showing on the eyes sight through the window. All pictures were as something motivated my digesting juice before facing with the real one. A few minutes later, the bus gradually parked at TTI amidst persistently rain. We all rushed getting off the bus in order to take passport from our handsome guide and queued up to stamp it before entering. Inside the passport, it provided us clearly the information of each mosque which there were around 21 mosques were exhibited here such as National Mosque (Malaysia), KudusMinar (Indonesia), Pattani Central Mosque(Thailand), Tajmahal (India), Badshahi(Pakistan), Kubbah As-Sakhrah(Palestine), Great Mosque of Samara (Iran), Abu Nasr Parsa(Afghanistan), Al-Haram Mosque(Saudi Arabia), Aleppo Citadel (Syria), Mosque of M.Ali(Egypt),Suleyman Mosque (Turkey),Great Mosque of Qarawan (Tunisia),Kalyan Maniret(Uzbekistan) and Kulsharif Mosque(Russia).

          Still more than that, there were speeders available for travelers to service all the time; it could take us easily wherever we wanted to go without any tiredness. Besides, every mosque were provided video about history and location of each place in order to increase our knowledge and be more understand as well. After finish watching the video, we all had to against time for taking photos because we did not want to miss even one fascinating scene. Because of the rain, now my friend’s beautiful colorful dress became to be dirty which were stained with a lot of mud. Although, confronting with the bad weather all day, we were happy and enjoy noticing from taking pictures that were still continually. After finishing enjoyed at the monument zone, we all had a date to have lunch together at restaurant located near the wide river. Looking out from my seat, I could see the Crystal Mosque which was standing prominently attracted greatly people who visited here. In addition, there was a strong long bridge provided us to go there easier and also could be a good viewpoint suited for taking photos as well.

             The more I came closer the more I could touch with the great and grandly of the Mosque constructed with crystal all the building. Then we prayed Subh together with my friends and the travelers who visited here as well. Sadly, it was the time to go back to the hotel. However, I was sure that everybody leave here with full of the smile and happiness. Even, it was an excursion trip, one day at TTI was too worthy as if I roamed to visit Islamic countries around the world. All good impressive memories I had seen would be imprinted on my mind eternally.