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Malaysia
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The upside-down museum wasn’t what we’d expected. It wasn’t even a museum. Every room was upside-down, though, except two, which were sideways. We took a lot of pictures, and had fun doing silly things.
One night, we had lots of fun in the park. It was Saturday night, so it was packed with kids and their families. While the adults hang around, me and my new friend, Lily, ran around the park and had lots of fun. Lily was an eight-year-old who was traveling the world for 6 months with her parents. She was doing road school, too. Lily was very convivial. Just like me! My favorite part of the island was the fire show. The fire dancers swung the fire around so quickly that it was snuffed out by its own wind. They even blew on the fire, and it looked as if they were breathing fire. When spinning the flames, they got so close to you that you had to step back, in fear of being set on fire. It was the most magical thing ever.
Learning to be a puppet master
A Royal Scholar
Climbing the walls with Lily
Yeah, we strong!
Fire dancer
Fire Breather
A Buzz with the Bees
We got out of the bus, and stepped into the greenhouse. Butterflies hung to the sides everywhere! I must reiterate: everywhere! Their cocoons were hanging on a vertical block of wood. On the other side, there were cages with other creatures. They had massive walking sticks the size of your head! They also had rhinoceros beetles (or stags), which were about the size of my palm. Then there were lizards, having a tasty breakfast of crickets. So were the scorpions. The crickets would try to climb up to the leaves of the bushes, so that they could eat. Also, there were big bullfrogs the size of my face.
Then we visited an insect that uses nectar and pollen from flowers to make honey. We had a buzz with the bees as they went inside their hives and back out. One lucky bee even managed to escape a spider’s web. Amazing!
Afterwards, we got some great pictures of tea. We did all this at Cameron Highlands, a place known for tea, bees, and butterflies. Don’t forget the strawberries, which you can pick yourself, and have a delicious smoothie made out of! We had a great time! Honestly, I keep vacillating between the bees or strawberries. I don’t know which one is my favorite! They were both great. Who says you can’t have two favorites.
Cameron Highland Tea Fields
Spider – the bee barely escaped this web!
Scorpion
Lizard
James of the Jungle
It felt pleasant to sit there and enjoy the nature. Pretty soon, though, I wanted to get out of there. I felt something wriggling across my fingers. It looked like a tiny purple worm, but it wasn’t. It was a baby leech! My family and I freaked out, but mom eventually banished the little vampire from my body for good. I had only gotten lucky. When we got back into our hotel room, dad found another baby leech, fat from his blood, stuck to his leg! Then there were two in his sock! How frightening! After minutes of screaming, we got them off. Woo, that was close!
We also went to a village. We learned a little bit about the local culture, Orang Asli, which means Original People, and practiced the local method of hunting. We blew darts from inside long sticks of bamboo. It was almost as silent as air. Normally, the darts were poisoned, but for demonstrations, they were not. The local people are very peaceful; they never had a single war in their 4,000 years of living in harmony. The tribe that we saw were descendants of local people from Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Indonesia. To me, the most interesting thing about them is that the women fished, but not with lines or nets. They fished with their hands! We said goodbye to the villagers in their language, climbed down to the riverbank, and boarded the boat. Then, without expecting it, our boat surfed up some rapids, and we got soaking wet. We were laughing and screaming joyfully with our companions, and it was really quite splendid.
Later that night, I was about to go back to our room to watch TV and eat pizza by myself, when we came out of the restaurant, and there, in the middle of the path, was a tapir. It seemed majestic. Its black hair, which covered the body, was white in the middle, such a white that it looked like powder. Its hair was short, and spiky. It had a very peculiar trunk, which was short and black, similar to an elephant’s. In the darkness of night, its eyes shined faintly, with big, round pupils. They appeared to have belonged to a puppy. It seemed to have jumped right out of a fairy tail, just like a peacock. Its ears and feet were very similar to the ears and feet of hippos. Weighing 550 – 660 pounds, you might think it was very big. Surprisingly, it only reached up to my chest, and was about 1 1/2 times as long as I am tall. Its outward appearance belied its true self. I was very surprised when I learned its true weight. I thought it was a baby! I found that its size had duped me, and that it was actually an adult male! I guess that what they say about books and covers is true!
Night Safari
Enjoying the Nature
Huge Leaf!
Scratching the tapir’s belly!
View of the jungle
Taman Nagara National Park Canopy Walk
The tapir tried to eat in the restaurant!
Dart Blowing
Lots and Lots of Fun
I moved my hand over the screen. The screen automatically picked a different section of the Kuala Lumpur skyline. I learned about many different buildings in Kuala Lumpur. Then we all flocked to the elevator, and rode to the top of the tower in only a few seconds. From that height, people, even cars, were invisible. The KL tower was lit up around the corner from the opposite twin tower. It was so fun being up there.
We did more fun stuff in Kuala Lumpur, like going to the aquarium. One part that I liked was the conveyor belt that went through a massive tube underwater, and it had to be at least three times longer than the tube in Atlanta. I also liked the part were you were filmed on a beach backdrop, and the producers did a special thing with the film, so that dinosaurs appeared to walk on stage. To make sure it wouldn’t look weird, they showed you the video while they filmed it, so that you could see what was going on.
Another very fun thing we did is an escape room. This escape room was not like the escape room in Budapest. As the story went, we tracked down a dangerous magician to his lair, but he disappeared right in front of us. We had forty-five minutes to find him, but because he was a magician, he laid out puzzles for us to solve. After a while, we had some help from a friend, but when we escaped, we found out that Hocus was too fast for us, and had disappeared! We were disappointed, but we still had a great time.
Another very fun thing we did is we went to the KL bird park. In one part, some birds were free range, and we watched male peacocks with complete plumage try to convince some females to mate with them. The bird show was amazing, too. We watched as a macaw did the shell game, and won! It was quite splendid. Kuala Lumpur may be one of my favorite places in the entire world!
Flash those feathers!
Amazing underwater tube at the Aquarium
Don’t get too close to the pelican!
Exploring KL
White Peafowl
Feeding birds
View from the Skybridge – Petronas Twin Towers
Top of the Petronas Twin Towers at sunset
Amazing Petronas Light Show!
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Peacock!
Huge Stork
Good Food, Tasty Food, Delicious Food, Heavenly Food
The night market in china town, downtown Melaka, Malaysia. What delicious wonders lie there! Grilled duck on a stick, sautéed quail eggs with mayonnaise, fried squid with crispy skin, octopus with dark, runny sauce! These were all items that could have been found in our stomachs not too long ago! How tasty, extremely enjoyable, hard-to-ignore, strips of flavor! It was certainly an ideal place for an eating tour. Many things we came across, we loved. Most things! It became our daily routine… or nightly routine!
As you can see, we had no trouble finding good food in Melaka. It wasn’t just the night market that I liked. I also loved a restaurant called Capitol Satay, where you can pick your raw food, and cook the satay in a Chinese-style hot pot, full of a boiling hot spicy sauce. I thought that cooking it was very fun. The food was good, too. I washed off my food, because the sauce was much too spicy for me. It was delicious! I could understand people driving for two hours just eat there. People will often wait up to two hours just to eat there – and I can’t blame them. It is supposedly one of the best restaurants in Malaysia – a country known for food. Now that’s a title!
Street Food – Octopus
Street Food – Fried Squid
Street Food – Dumplings
Quail Eggs – My Favorite!
Street Food – Meat on a stick
Street Food – Radish
Capital Satay
Round the World Kid 