After more than 500 miles we have reached our most northerly destination in Malaysia. Kota Bharu is the main town of Kelantan which is the most conservative Muslim state in Malaysia. Linda has felt very self conscious walking around the city in shorts as virtually all other women are clothed from head to foot and some wearing the burquar. We came back to the hotel and Linda found a dress to wear which made her look less conspicuous. We have booked into a nice hotel for two days to allow us to make our minds up how we are going to return to Singapore. We have already decided to take the so called Jungle train which goes through the Cameron highlands and jungles of interior Malaysia.
We are off to the famous night market here as we are now addicted to eating our food from hawkers stalls in the street as they are such good value and very clean as well as very tasty.
lastly on the journey here today we meet or were stopped by several local people male and female asking where we were from and where we were going all very cheery and smiling with surprise that we had come so far on a bike which they had never seen before.
When we eat together the man is always served first!
1 comment:
Wowee 500 miles - very impressive!
Sounds like a great adventure. Charmy and I have both said that if we had seen a couple of oldies (tee hee!) on a tandem we def would not have ignored you!
big hugs and love
xxxxx
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