Further Wanderings

After the Cameron Highlands, Kuala Lumpur was a bit of a shock.  Hot, sticky, big and busy, KL was everything that Tanah Rata wasn’t.  But somehow, despite the change of scenery, we were still felt a bit lackadaisical during our time there.

Part of this came from the fact that Malaysia was such an easy place to travel in.  Public transport was good, everyone was used to tourists (especially in the areas we were visiting), and virtually everyone spoke at least a bit of English.  After the rigours of places like Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sumatra, it almost felt TOO easy to be exciting.

Another source of the feeling came from the nearness of our trip’s end.  During our stay in KL, the day 2 weeks prior to our return to NZ came and went.  Since booking our tickets we’d been focussing more and more on the END of the journey, and finding it correspondingly tougher to focus on the present.

The Masjid Jamek Mosque (a bit redundant, as Majid means mosque in Malay), Kuala Lumpur

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It’s always so nice arriving in a city and already knowing your way around.

Since we’d spent a day on the island of Penang in transit between Thailand and Indonesia, we had no troubles finding our way to a nice hotel, getting booked in and setting about enjoying the place.

Lens at the Penang Lighthouse [read on]