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A stall selling Parasites (In Singapore).


And one selling Pretty Women.


The pool in the apartment complex we stayed in, Johor Bahru (Southern Malaysia, just across the bridge from Singapore).


A photo I took of Timerland, before I found out it was spelt Timbaland.


Lizards were everywhere. Crawling around on trees, walls and toilets.


On the way to Kuala Lumpur.


Nearly there!


A photo I took of a sign before I realised the letters were around the wrong way. But it set me on a mission to find an actual screen name of someone from the GMC.


And I found this. Tarik means Pull, and Teh means Tea. It's a shop selling pull tea.


More Tarik.


The Petronus Twin towers, at one time they were the tallest buildings in the world.


Malaysian roads. Fun to drive on.


The entrance to the Batu caves, a Hindu temple.


A monkey. We saw it steal the drink bottle from a lady, then proceed to bite a hole in it and drink from it.


A cute monkey and it's baby. But don't let it fool you, monkeys fight amongst themselves and we were warned never to approach them. They aren't cuddly animals, they are vicious.


A giant statue of Buddha, at a Buddhist temple we visited.


At the Buddhist temple, there was a journey of enlightenment showing the chambers of hell in the religion. You go to different chambers depending on what you did during your life, and you can go to more than one if you did things falling into more than one category. At the end, you drink water that erases your memory then are reborn to live life again, hopefully better this time. Each of the chambers had models of what happened there. Some examples:








The temple was at quite a high altitude, half way up a mountain in what's known as the Genting Highlands.


This is a cool police checkpoint.


The South China Sea.


The trash on the beach. We were going to swim there, but changed our minds.


Mersing, a small seaside settlement that has been overrun with tourists since resorts opened on offshore islands.


Caution, Elephant Crossing!


I don't know if they have these in other countries, but we don't have them in New Zealand. It's a tiny McDonald's stall selling only McDonald's ice creams.


Every day you wake up and the sky is blue. Every afternoon thunderstorms set in. You listen to thunder all night, but when you wake up the next day the sky is blue. You can actually watch as the thunderstorms come towards you, and plan around it as it happens at the same time each day.


The Sultans palace. There is a sultan for each state of Malaysia, and you can't buy sultanas in Malaysia. Sultan's wives are called Sultanahs, and naming a type of small brown shriveled up grape after the Sultan's wife would just be insulting. Instead they are sold as yellow raisins.


Even Malaysians can spell "colour" correctly .


This stingray reminded me of Star Wars for some reason.


A photo of "Songs of the Sea", the main attraction of Sentosa Island, Singapore. The photo doesn't do it justice, it's more of a be there thing.


The Merlion, national icon of Singapore (This one was on Sentosa Island).


The restaurant we ate at in Singapore the night before we left for home.


The Hotel Compass, where we stayed the night before flying out of Singapore back to New Zealand. Deep in the red light district of Singapore, most guests only stayed an hour or two.

That concludes the Malaysia series of blog posts. I hope you enjoyed it, and sorry it took so long for the final post. I don't have an awful lot of time anymore. Any questions, just ask .

-Dave