Malaysia is a word that conjures up the mystery of the East: sultans and head hunters, jungles with exotic wildlife and travel on clippers on the South China Sea. Of course, today’s Malaysia is a different world – the jungles are contained in national parks or turned into rubber and palm oil plantations, Kuala Lumpur is a modern metropolis of glass, and container ships, not clippers, now sail the sea.
Even so, the country has retained its cross-cultural stamp with the sharp spices of its Indian markets, its flamboyant red Buddhist temples and the prayer call of the muezzin echoes from a multitude of mosques across the country. Sandwiched between Singapore to the south and Thailand to the north, the Peninsula states support the great bulk of the country’s population. And just as Malaysia itself is a country of two halves, so the Peninsula too can be broadly divided into a vibrant western side and a bucolic east, separated by the Barisan Titiwangsa, the Peninsula’s jungled spine.
Read moreEven so, the country has retained its cross-cultural stamp with the sharp spices of its Indian markets, its flamboyant red Buddhist temples and the prayer call of the muezzin echoes from a multitude of mosques across the country. Sandwiched between Singapore to the south and Thailand to the north, the Peninsula states support the great bulk of the country’s population. And just as Malaysia itself is a country of two halves, so the Peninsula too can be broadly divided into a vibrant western side and a bucolic east, separated by the Barisan Titiwangsa, the Peninsula’s jungled spine.
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