Kota Bahru to Penang
Can this be true? back so soon? well yes. One last message from malaysia before i enter the land of the Thais. Kota Bahru is a major city in north eastern malaysia. Being the most Muslim state in the country the city itself is fairly sober in nature. Night life consisting mainly of stalls selling dress making materials and religious texts. In this enviroment it only seemed fittin to seek more experiences of a cultural nature. To this end your correspondant visited the Malaysian cultural centre in town.The event hosted by a rather camp multi lingual guy consisted of demonstration of drumming on 110 kg drums, shadow boxing martial arts and traditional malay games. Naturally when the show became interactive i couldn't help myself but keep the British end up by participating fully. Although my drum banging resulted largely in painful palms, the show case display of shadow boxing i produced (shadowing one of the locals) pracitcally brought the house down. See me in action below....Leaving Kota Bahru we headed east across the country to the Island of Penang off of the east coast. A major jumping off point into thailand penang was the first british colony in SE asia and like its successors melaca and singapore it is a mixture of malay, indian and chinese culures. The town itself has a great vibe to it. Incredibly relaxing compared to the east coast. Hawker stalls line streets full of shopfront homes serving no end of needs. The food here is reason enough to come, the tandoori chicken i had last night was possibly the best ever, and i've tried alot! Today, after dim sum breakfast and perusing the paper for a couple of hours, i took in one of the local buddist temples - the largest in malaysia. A caccophany of shape and colour, the temple sits on a hill side over looking Georgetown (the capital of the island). errr thats about all for now.
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