After 30 minutes of crossing, we landed in Kuala Besut. We nous sommes dirigés vers la station de bus ou nous vons du attendre pres de 2 heures le prochain départ. Le bus pour Kota Bharu arriva enfin mais puisqu'il s'agissait d'un bus local et que nous étions a l'heure de sortie des classes, nous avons eu la chance (!) de faire le ramassage scolaire. Devant chaque école que nous croisions, nous embarquions plusieurs dizaines de jeunes que nous égrennions alors un peu plus loin alors qu'is descendaient les uns apres les autres en avant de leur maison. Le chemin de 45 kilometres qui nous séparait de Kota bharu prit plus d'une heure et demie. Mais nous sommes finalement arrivés, et c'est la une des leçons de notre voyage: plus on s'énerve et plus le temps paraît long. L'essentiel Is not there? So we took his misfortune patiently and we let ourselves go ...
arrived in Kota Bharu, we landed in a city without a real character, with its shopping centers under construction and its broad avenues sullen. Muslim stronghold in northern Malaysia, the rate of veiled women has quickly feel the importance of religion in the region. But surprisingly, cohabitation seems to be okay with that part of the population who dresses and behaves much more Western, wearing shorts or short skirts and going to McDonalds or KFC. But for us, this town was a stopover on our way to Kuala Lumpur. Indeed, it is here that the night train from Kuala Lumpur louse (KL). Yesterday, wanting to book, we learned that the train was full. But Kota Bharu is the urban center of the region, we still decided to come here to find a bus that would take us up to KL. After having deposited our bags in a guesthouse and have had confirmation that trains full étaiet we went out about the bus. To our surprise, the majority of departures evening (several dozen) were already complete. We then booked 2 tickets for the 21:00 departure day. And to spend a night trip ALMOST comfortable we opted for a vehicle with less upper-class passengers, which pays more attention to each of them.
Thereafter, we went the next night market, hoping to find a place to eat. With regard to the night market, highly recommended by our guidebook, it consisted of dozens of stalls selling not anything very interesting for tourists like us. We finally ended up in a Chinese restaurant located in a garage on the ground floor of a decrepit building. While Ted and I were talking, the owner (Chinese) came to us accompanied by a young girl. Il s'agissait de sa fille. Cette derniere avait étudié le français a l'université et la maman était particulierement fiere que sa fille puisse le parler avec des francophones. Il fut fort intéressant de pouvoir échanger ainsi sur quelques sujets divers avec la demoiselle. Puis nous avons traversé a nouveau le pseudo ''super'' marché de nuit pour regagner notre guesthouse.
Jeudi matin, nous avons été passer un peu de temps su Internet (le Mc Donalds offfrait une connexion gratuite!) avant d'aller visiter le marché central de la ville. Cet immense batiment octogonal est constitué de 3 étages, avec les produits frais au rez-de-chaussée, les produits secs au premier étage and clothes and accessories in the 2nd. The place was particulirement interesting to take some pictures of the lives of vendors and customers who roamed the aisles. After having spent a long time in the market, we were walking through downtown or a few are particularly well-preserved historic buildings. After eating fried chicken (like KFC) which seems to be the specialty of the place, and while the heat was particularly oppressive, we have put ourselves in the fridge to eat ice cream before returning to our guesthouse. We bought some food on the bus and 20.15, it was already time to leave.
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