Pictures are worth a thousand words? One of the royal bathing pools. This pool was for the women and children. The royal family would be washed in this, essentially an enormous bathtub. Local women painting batik. Some batik designs are drawn on the fabric with hot wax to prevent bleeding but this one was drawn with normal fabric pencil. It can take hours...
While staying in JB, Teresa and I went into Singapore one day so she could show me around. I was amazed as soon as we crossed the border. Everything felt really clean and super Western. It was a bit like being back in America again... Doing what we do best, Teresa and I tackled the malls on Orchard Rd. Shopping is a shared...
February was basically a month of travelling Malaysia and the little corner of the world that is Southeast Asia, so bear with me as I recap this month's adventures! I first travelled to Johor Bahru, to stay with Teresa's host family for Chinese New Year. It was a 12 hour train ride filled with cockroaches, non-functioning air conditioning, and overpriced meehoon goreng, but...
A few weeks ago, was the Hindu festival, Thaipusam. I stayed with a really young Indian family in Gopeng, a town 20 or so minutes from Ipoh. Thaipusam is honestly one of the craziest, breath-taking, and somewhat terrifying thing I've experienced. A bit about the background of the festival: during this festival, Hindus do many things to honor one of their gods. Some...
