Pekan travel guide

Pekan is the royal town of Pahang, Malaysia. It is situated 45 km south of the current state capital of Kuantan, near the coast of South China Sea and on the southern bank of Pahang River. The royal town of Pekan get its name from a flower called Bunga Pekan. Pekan is also the name of the district the town in situated in and a parliamentary constituency in its own right. It is the home of the state's royal family headed by Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Abu Bakar Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mu'adzam Shah http://www.malaysianmonarchy.org.my/portal_bi/rk3/rk3a.php?id=rk3_7. It is also the hometown of the second Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Abdul Razak Hussein http://www.pmo.gov.my/website/webdb.nsf/vALLDOC/1B354E2FCD2DEB3D48256D52001A44A1and the current deputy prime minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Najib is also Pekan's current Member of Parliament.
The Masjid Abdullah, which dates from the 1920s and the newer Masjid Abu Bakar is near the Sultan Abu Bakar Museum. (...) more....