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MALAYSIA

Mar
2004-09-14 16:33:03

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Buddhist for the Chinese and Hindu for the Indies. The northern area (like Thai Southern area) is mainly conservative Muslim, what we notice mainly outside of the villages. The eastern side of the Peninsular has some difficulties from rebels coming from Malaysia going into Thailand and placing bombs at police or military stations (nothing for us to be worried about).

Kangar to Georgetown

The monsoon at the east coast of Malaysia forces us to cycle the west coast. We still remember rainy China and don’t want to make that a rehearsal for Malaysia. The northwestern part of Malaysia is funny enough just like The Netherlands. Can't help thinking 'same, same, but different'. Southern France would make a nice comparison as well. Grainfield’s that are divided by small canals. High power electricity lines reaching until the horizon. The road is flat and smoothly asphalted. Very peaceful scenery that will never get boring (except in your own country maybe). Two roads that are separated by a canal. One road ment for continuing traffic while the other one is a smaller country road and is mainly used by tractors. Along this road are houses and farms and the road is every kilometre connected by a small bridge with the main road. One big difference, here we have palm trees. We choose for the country road and leave the traffic on the main road.

Raymond opens the Malay phrasebook and sticks it in the map holder. So we cycle on. 'Satu, dua, tiga, empat....', our habit of at least trying to teach ourselves to count in the local language. We stop for today and order a rice dish 'Nasi goreng ayam', that a simple one. When we are finished I ask in Malay 'May I have the bill please?', big mistake. In countries like this you don't get a bill and the waiter simple says 'no'. I return to our table where two local Guinness beer salesmen join us. Malaysia is mostly ...