Day 3 #JohorBahru

Well, we are at Malaysia, at Johor Bahru to be exact. By the way it looks, it's way different.We are most definitely not in Singapore anymore. Before that, we started our day with exit the guest house with our heavy,heavy backpacks. We took public transportation plus an amount of walking. Humidity plus walking equals sweat. It was fun to do that despite the exhaustion.

Once we got to Malaysia, we decided that we all needed to exchange money. Some of us wanted to just stick with using a card. However, we tried buying a drink at Starbucks and all our cards were declined. One of friends went to get her money exchanged. The rate was 4 Malay dollars for every U.S. Dollar. However, they were offering her 3.5. She decided to not take the exchange, instead she asked one of our guy friends to go and ask for the exchange. He was offered the full amount. Interesting, I thought, I'll leave you guys to ponder upon that. After having lunch, we moved on to our hotel. You could even tell that we were in Malaysia by how the streets looked like. Getting to the hotel felt like a mission. Entering the hotel, we saw that it was very nice, plust there was wifi. 

Once we settled to our hotel, we all went a Sikh temple and a Hindu temple. Both temples asked for our shoes to be off. So out of respect for their culture and religion, we did. The Sikh temple also asked for head covering for both genders, which I saw very interesting. We had someone show us the main room/temple in which their Guru Granth was found.  I was also very impressed with the Hindu temple due to its music. While the Hindus were praying and doing their thing,there were people playing their instruments and it was honestly pretty awesome (video will be on Facebook). We were really impressed with what the musicians were doing, and they were on point. Seeing the Hindu temple made me start changing my mind about Johor. 

We then decided to explore some of the city. Johor Bahru definitely reminded me of Tijuana, Mexico. It just honestly gave me that vibe. Not to mention I thought I saw a picture with meat and cilantro and thought it was a Taqueria (Taco Place). Sadly, it was not that.After exploring, we all met up for dinner at an Indian food restaurant. The way we ate was quite different, due to the fact we ate with our right hand only, with no utensils. We got to feel the food, if that doesn't sound creepy at all, I guess.

We then went through the streets and headed toward another Hindu temple later that evening. This time we through a small dark alley to get to it. At first it was really creepy, yet what we saw was quite extraordinary. The inside of the temple was made of pure mirror glass tiles, over 5 million to be quite exact. It was smaller than the one we went to earlier, but it had its own beauty.

This day was overall very tiring, yet my friends and I are starting to learn so much about its culture and learning on how to appreciate it, and honestly the experiences we are having are priceless.

Blessings,
Sandra :)

P.S. Girls don't sweat, we usually glisten.