Monday 26th May
It is 6.15pm and
Pete and I are ready for Sleepyboboland…
This morning there
was barely time to admire the beautiful sunrise and our bus was here, waiting
to whisk us away for a Terengganu Experience.
Fist stop involved
what our guide called A Morning Walk.
Very nice too, through an older suburb with pleasant wooden houses,
fruit trees,
and a few
boat-building yards.
These lovely
boats, under very s-l-o-w and careful construction, were wildly popular with the
men.
Some of us found
it just too TOO hot and found it necessary to find shady spots to sit and look
at the warm brown water.
Mosques featured
large on the agenda, of course. First
the Crystal Mosque – VERY sparkly!
We were invited to
come inside… I was not extra keen because we had to put on more layers of
clothes, and…well, I was HOT.
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| Paul, from SV Calypso, on my left, has his cap tucked into his robes... |
Our guide kitted
me out, and said, as he tied the scarf under my chin, Oh you look so nice! Well…I
didn’t look nice*…and when he had a closer look he was a bit concerned and made
me fasten my robes up to my chin and down to my toes – I was, he whispered,
showing CHEST, and LEG!
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| Pete with Sazli |
Pete too had to
wear a robe because he was wearing his short and was thus showing leg above the
knee…just.
Next mosque was
white, and floating. Very pretty!
We then went to
Chinatown, which I liked very much.
But…not much time to explore; Pete and I had to go to Customs (Kastom)
and Harbour Master (Jabatan Laut.) Much
filling in of forms… We still have to do Immigration, tomorrow at the airport.
(At least here in
Malaysia bureaucracy has a kindly face… Today one of our sailing friends told
us about some people who were travelling form one SE Asian country to another
on their yacht. They stopped near an
island** for a swim and…were promptly arrested because they didn’t have entry
papers. And…they spent two days in
prison. When Pete told me I was
horrified – in their BATHERS???)
At 4.00 we went to
the splendidly named Paradise Excellence*** Restaurant for…high tea…(hi-tea).
We are now awaiting
fuel in jerrycans…and…Sleepyboboland! It
can’t come too soon!
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| Dave (Jackster) and Elizabeth ( Labarque) |
* I have a very
nasty expression on my face…
** I’m not saying
WHICH country. But it was NOT Malaysia!
** Maybe it wasn’t Excellence but…it was some
such fabulous word!
You might be shrouded in clothing - but the blue reflection of the sunglasses are the tell clue that it's you! X
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