Muslim women dressed in their burkas from head to toe in black even on the beach just seems wrong!!!I am glad the little girls are able to enjoy the beach, at least until they turn 12 years.
Now is what the tourist oriented businesses in Penang refer to as Arab Season. While temperatures in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, can reach 134 degrees, here it is a relatively cool 90- 100 degrees. As someone pointed out to me, there are not a lot of places that welcome Muslims and also have the attractions of Penang, so they flock here at this time. I had to take very discrete pictures on the beach to show you the unbelievable beach attire. I even saw one lady riding a jet ski which I thought just totally incongruous.
Speaking of temperatures here, I think it is interesting that I have learned to cope so well without air conditioning. I do have air con in my apartment but I am adapting to local ways and only turn it on for an hour when I go to bed. It is just one more thing I have learned by experience.
Don't you love this sign? In public restrooms all around these parts this sign is posted to advise those unfamiliar that this is a sitter and not a squatter. Personally I am always glad to have a sitter, but you can't always get what you want, ya know.
I am traveling tomorrow from Penang to Kuala Lumpur for the weekend. I will take a 4-5 hour bus from central Penang to central Kuala Lumpur. I could take a one hour flight for just a few dollars more but the travel time to and from airports would make it about the same amount of travel time. Besides the scenery in Malaysia is beautiful, most of the highways being lined on both sides with palm tree plantations as palm oil is the second major export of Malaysia. (First is oil, as in Petronas Towers.)
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