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Malaysia – Penang

You can pay to ride a horse on the beach

Penang is an island in the northwest part of Malaysia which is actually very international and multicultural place to visit and eat and enjoy. The main town is on the east side just across the bridge and the beach areas are in the north west and south. All of them are interesting. You will see mosques, churches and temples very close to if not next to each other as a symbol of mutual respect and harmony throughout the Malaysian society. Even though there are many cultures in Penang the prevalent one is the Chinese population. I highly recommend putting this on your top three places in Malaysia to visit.

Nice name for a restaurant, especially a fast food restaurant
The west side of the island has nice beaches
Penang’s famous street art
Grilled chicken with rice
Isn’t a hiding place supposed to be secret?
Stopping the street art from moving
A typical restaurant
Just sit here and watch a monkey stare at you
Walking streets have a huge variety of food
Everyone loves the Vespa style
The UNESCO heritage site, dock area
Of course there is a lot of dim sum
A very cute and non-aggressive monkey with her baby on the telephone wires downtown
Lao mango sticky rice is world-famous. It’s so delicious the nation of Thailand claims it belongs to them
bodyless in a café
Nice clouds
Not too many tourists
Food Heaven
It’s a good thing they put up the sign. You might think the Swedish are making Danish
Dreaming of becoming so popular
Typical papaya spicy salad with some other good things
Artwork down at the docks
Famous Hainan steamed chicken and rice
Her cat gets a free tour of the town in his own bubble
Not really something we want to remember
An interesting Hindu temple
This is the first time on the bus when they’re filling it up with gas
By now you can guess what this is
A very ornate Hindu temple
When I first saw this walking down the street it looked pretty dangerous, I remember a movie with this kind of thing coming out of someone’s body
Good message
30 years ago these guys were plentiful. Now there are not many
A lot of beautiful old buildings everywhere
You can buy durian in many places in the city but there are very few places you are allowed to go with it, especially hotels. It stinks.
What happens if you decide you don’t like the food after eating it all?
Dried communist chicken feet
Don’t whack or step on or poison or abandon cats and dogs. It’s just a nice reminder
A very popular and inexpensive buffet
Lao sticky Rice is so famous
Very organized and peaceful and pretty
Wow!
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Malaysia – Cameron highlands

Getting tired watching the tourists go by

The Cameron highlands are very famous partly since this is the place Jim Thompson disappeared without a trace. He was the fellow who helped develop and promote the silk industry in Thailand after World War II, . The rumors are very fascinating since some of them tie him to US intelligence services and so he was kidnapped and killed by communist rebels in this area. This was a place where the British set up tea industries, probably Tea leaves imported from Burma (where I am told tea first became a drink) and developed an international trade in the product. The mountains are very beautiful and the air is very refreshing but it is very heavily populated by tourists and the services provided also have that tinge of taking advantage of the visitors. I found it interesting for a two day visit but I didn’t find much else very interesting. Those who want to go hiking extensively will find it pretty and challenging enough to be a really good vacation.

Limits where people can go so it doesn’t destroy the ecosystem, especially the moss
This leaf can be used to keep the leeches off of you
tea
the more modern transports are Toyotas since these older land Rovers are becoming very expensive to get parts and maintain
This plant collects water so when the insects come to get the water they fall in and die and the plant uses them for food
Add the butterfly Museum
Large gecko eggs
Boh tea from the area and a cheesecake with tea powder on top
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Malaysia- Kuala Lumpur (KL)

In this cave and area are probably the most interesting of the places to visit around KL

Kuala Lumpur is affectionately called “KL” by the locals and everyone else in Southeast Asia and also by those who traveled here often. In general Malaysia is a very organized, well developed and nice place to visit. While I don’t get very excited about cities there are a few things in the city that are interesting before going out into the countryside. The Batu Cave is a place of worship and a highly recommended place to visit. The easiest way we thought to get there was to take Grab (like Uber) and it was not very expensive.

The cave entrance
The Hindu shrine inside
A striking view of KL
Chinatown is a nice place to visit at night time. There are a lot of restaurants and things to buy
Shopping centers seem to be replacing the temples of civilization
Dried communist duck feet and duck necks
The Petronas (big oil Company) towers seem to be the main attraction in KL. One of them was built by a Japanese construction company and the other by Samsung of Korea. The story some Malaysians told me is the Korean tower is starting to lean slightly so it might cause a problem with the connecting walkway high above
A view of the towers from the hotel