Pulai

Pulai lies in the upper Galas River country of southern Kelantan, amid forested hills. Chinese settlers came to this inland valley to work its gold-bearing ground, and a Hakka community grew around the mines. Accounts place the settlement at least in the late eighteenth century. The Galas and Kelantan rivers offered a difficult but vital route between Pulai and the coast, while surrounding forests enclosed the remote mining district.