Once again the mainland of malaysia greets us with slightly muddy part 1
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Once again the mainland of Malaysia greets us with slightly muddy water off the coast Having jumped off the boat we go to look for a good place to hitchhike Now our path lies to the capital - Kuala Lumpur To fly as someone already guessed to Vietnam We have already bought tickets so now all that remains is to get to the capital An interesting fact is that in Malaysia a huge number of villages and towns begin with the word Kuala and as it turned out this translates as coastal We crossed a long bridge over a brownish river with fishing boats and started hitchhiking After 10-15 minutes we were already driving with some guy to the next point There s 5 in our pocket that s all we have left we want to eat but there s no more money even on the card and the plane leaves in 3 days so we still need to live through this time somehow Realizing that the path to the capital is not close about 600 km we think that we will not get there in one day And then for the first time we were picked up by a Muslim girl driver she dropped us off somewhere in the jungle and imagine the surprise of the next driver who picked us up We think he stopped more to find out what the hell these backpackers were doing in the middle of the jungle And how lucky we were with this guy he was a doctor and a Buddhist and like all the Buddhists we came across he was incredibly kind that he decided to lead us through the city and not along the highway so that we could take a good look at everything explaining this by that What kind of a journey is this if you always drive along the highway and see nothing but the road Although our plans did not include an additional excursion around the city of Terengganu and we wanted to get closer to the capital as soon as possible we did not contradict him and enjoyed the trip He was so quirky and cheerful that he constantly smiled and repeated the last words of our sentences but with a raised questioning and funny intonation and at the same time he always laughed Having learned that we had never tried sugar cane juice he stopped at another roadside store and immediately bought us a bag of fresh juice And yes it s a bag everything is sold here in plastic bags juices soups etc they just insert a stick into the bag and tighten it with an elastic band After another hundred kilometers he takes delicious local boiled corn for everyone and later gives even his corn to us Having barely reached his destination he decided to stop in a park by the sea to relax and we realized that we had found a great place to spend the night It was a park by the beach and there was no one there except a few families who came here to have a picnic dinner on the ground since the sun had already set and they could finally eat in Ramadan but also there was a gorgeous view and it was calm and there is also a restroom So when we told the doctor that we would stop here for the night in the tent he started running around the area in fear trying to find a better place for us We still have his corn left but he says How can you stop here with just one corn there isn t even a cafe right here In the end we convinced him that everything would be fine with us he gave us another bottle of water and also left a business card so that we could call him if anything happened Half the road to the capital has been completed and tomorrow we will continue our journey