A Journey to Well Known Places

We returned to Kuala Lampur with shopping on the mind. We had been told that KL was the place to pick up cheap electornics, clothes, and souvenirs. There were some good bargains, but you really had to hunt for them. We spent hours cruising the malls and outlet stores for stuff to take with us and to send back. I ended up buying a new laptop and we both bought some desinger glasses on the cheap. It was not quite as easy to find good cheap food in KL as it was in Georgetown, but we did manage to eat some good Indian and Malay dishes. We toured the national museum, a tribal museum, the state mosque (Erica had to wear a loaned robe and head cover….I wish I had the camera with me), and the aviary. The aviary was really neat. It is the largest in the world and home to thousands of birds. We brought the camera for that one. As soon as I figure out how to make my ipod work with my new computer I will upload all of our remaining pictures. After a few days in KL we caught a bus to a town called Tanha Rata in the Cameron Highlands. It is a cool mountainous area about three hours outside the capital. The town was very small and sourrounded by tea plantations. We took several jungle walks. We even got ambitious and walked 11 kilometers to the Boh tea planation. We took a cab back though. One 11 km walk is enough for me in a day. The town is small, but there are appearantly many mosques in a very small area. I know this because starting at 5am on morning they started chanting their call to prayer…..one right after another. There must have been 6 different mosque all wanting to pray that morning. It went on for 45 minutes. I felt no closer to God afterwards and more than a little tired. Then it was back to KL for our flight to Borneo.

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