* Pasar Payang (Centre Market) - popular tourist spot with the shopping arcade, it offers variety of traditional handicraft.

* Pulau Duyong - it is a well-known boat building ground in Terengganu, where you can see boats being made by skilled boat builders. Pulau Duyong is also renowned for its dried and salted fish, and fish crackers industries.

* State Museum - the museum complex consists of a Main museum, a Maritime museum, a Fisheries museum, 4 traditional houses, and botanic and herbs garden.

* Floating Mosque (5 km) - Masjid Tengku Tengah Zaharah is unique and the only one of its kind in Malaysia as floating mosque.

* Batik & Songket factories (6 km) - it is Malaysia's pioneer silk weaving center.

* Local Handicraft Centre (6 km) - the center offers a wide variety of Malaysian handicraft and also an insight into handicraft making.

* Marang fishing village (20 km) - Marang fishing village has long jetties which make it an excellent site for fishing.

* Sekayu Waterfalls (40 km) - its seven cascades are surrounded by its natural landscapes of lush jungle-clad hills, a fruit orchard, a mini zoo, a bird park, a flower garden and countless species of flora and fauna.

* Kenyir Lake (60 km) - the largest man-made lake in South East Asia with about 340 islands and more than 14 waterfalls.