Time in country: 10 days
Money spent: approximately $425 USD each (seems high, but includes our nice hotel we splurged on for two nights)
Currency: Ringgit
Conversion Rate: 3 Ringgit to 1 USD
Food:
Typical food seemed to resemble a mix of Asian noodles or rice dish combined with Middle Eastern, Thai, and/or Indian flavor.
Places Visited (in order): Kuala Lumpur, Cameron Highlands, Penang
Random Thoughts:
We only made it through peninsular Malaysia. As you can see on the map, there's two other states we didn't get to. Borneo is supposed to be pretty cool, and maybe if we have extra time we can make it back that way.
Malaysian food, especially at food stalls, was fairly cheap and quite good.
We knew we were in SE Asia when we had multiple sightings of large rats in the streets. They made BOTH of us squirm.
From what we saw from being in the cities, Malaysians (and Singaporeans for that matter) love their shopping malls! It seems like there were malls on every other corner, and not just any malls, but big malls.
In Malaysia (and most Asian countries), shoes are removed before walking inside a home, shop, restaurant, etc. This is done to keep the filth/ dirt on shoes out of the house, as well as a symbol of respect. This sounds like a good idea; however, for Kristin who dislikes feet in general and dislikes feet being dirty, this was quite hard! Especially when it meant she had to walk around the hostel without any shoes on, ugh. Not to mention that when you're in a restaurant and want to use the ladies room you're not supposed to have any shoes on. What?!? She had difficulties getting used to the no shoes thing, and her feet being dirty most of the time.
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