Max in Malaysia

 Just read Max's piece on Malaysia on GoNomad.com and loved it. It had lots of factual info that only Max would notice.

Malaysia has the world’s only rotating monarchy. Every five years a new king is named from one of the nine original provinces, so the nation takes turns with who gets the royal treatment. We watched the King’s procession makes its way into the royal Palace in Kuala Lumpur and later saw him during the opening ceremony at the Citrajarna colors of Malaysia festival in the downtown streets.

There are vestiges of old regimes throughout the country, and a marked difference in the work ethic and pace from the west coast to the east. We spent time in the hustling, bustling traffic of Kuala Lumpur and Malacca, on the west, and then flew to Terrenganu, on the east, which was much more slow-paced. There were also far fewer women on the streets without the headscarf, here nearly every woman wore the long head to toe saris and scarves required of Islamic tradition.

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