More of the Andaman Sea coastline as seen approaching Penang Island back in late July (above), with more of west-coast peninsular Malaysia as seen from the same flight, below.
Above, four images looking out from various window’s in KL’s remarkable Museum of Islamic Art, which I visited 5 weeks ago & have only now shown you for the first time. There’ll be a bit more; but visitors to KL take note: this museum’s a must visit! Below: some doors which look like windows at the lovely planetarium complex in the Botanic Gardens, which we have shown you before :-).
Ok so this post is a bit more about me than usual, because…well, it’s my birthday so why not? Plus, just one week ago as this post goes live, I was still in KL, wrapping up my lovely afternoon in which I explored first the Botanic Gardens (which we’ve shown you in recent posts) and then the remarkable Malaysian Museum of Islamic Art (which we’ll show you in future posts). Since this blog tends to show you photos I might have taken quite a few weeks or months ago, I thought I’d show you some recent posts featuring the fairly-current me, sweaty and happy from climbing up to the top of the Penang Hill two weekends ago, on the eponymous island of Penang in the eponymous State of Penang in the fabulous country of Malaysia. Quick comparison: as you see, there in Malaysia, land of true mountains, they call their 833-meter high item a “hill.” Down south here in my truly beloved adopted home of NL, some folks call the Vaalserberg and surrounding 322-meter high items “the Dutch alps’ … some of them, I think, with tongue in cheek. Or at least I hope so. This was, of course, a work visit – and generally a quite lovely and enjoyable one, I’ll say. But as you know, we don’t really talk in this personal space about the work, so instead I’m showing you various shots of one of my truly favorite MY weekend activities, walking in the heat and humidity (endurance test for an aging dude, eh?) of a Malaysian summer afternoon from the bottom to the top of this awesome hill. Pro tip: check for monkeys in the various photos below. And yes, Steve, there’s another special animal shot that’s just for you 🙂 — see if you can properly identify the one I took with you in mind…
(so much world, so little time....) 