Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Langkawi
This part of my trip was decided based
on what flights were available out of India into SE Asia. After
doing some reading on the country I decided to stay for a couple of
weeks rather than a couple of nights. Kuala Lumpur was a nice change
of pace coming from India, it reminded me of Seoul. Just a huge city
with lots of strongly air conditioned shopping malls. The food was
great. Great fruits, great seafood, great Malaysian and international
foods. KL has a really amazing cityscape as well. One bad thing about
Malaysia was that despite being a lower temperature than Kochi, it felt much hotter due to humidity.
I was flying out of KL in a few days so
I came up with a genius plan to take a ferry to Langkawi, which is
considered one of the best tropical beaches in SE Asia, and fly back
to KL airport late the night before my flight the next morning. This
worked out great because there is a cube hotel at the airport where
you can shower and get a nice bed for a few hours. Anyway, I didn't
do any swimming at Langkawi, one of the best beaches in the world. I
read about people dying from box jellyfish and I was really looking
for an excuse not to swim. I took a boat tour of the mangrove forest.
To be honest it felt very forced for tourism. Kind of like a tourist
trap. It wasn't awful, actually it was very pretty, but I didn't love
Langkawi. It strikes me as the kind of place families bring their
kids to sit on a beach for a week.
Next Stop Laos.
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