Hot place KL went in 87 I think, first stop on a round the world ticket with Malaysian air, I remember getting out of the airport and the heat was like walking into a blow dryer.We stayed in a reasonable clean hotel the cab driver sugested and we hired him for our first day of touristing to take us around in a nice Mercedes and introduce us to the place local like.
I loved the place, then we got to Penang on the train and a few days later I got arrested while on my own down in the China town section at a spot i shouldnt of been in talking to the wrong people, for suspicion of heroin trafficking and faced a tough few hours as an innocent (of that charge) trying to prove myself against some street detectives suspicions.
Figured it was a set up and maybe they didnt get the chance to put anything on me,or it was a mistake. The Government there had just hung two Aussies and turns out we were staying in the same New China hotel they were arrested in, so was probably being watched from the beginning.
Interesting start to south east Asia anyway. From there we eventually got on a ship and went over to Medan in Sumatra for culture shock number two;Changed our money into rupees and became instant millionaires! Insane drivers on dirt roads and buses with chickens flying around in them, while the driver just guns it through towns with his hand on the horn turning around to look back into the bus at everyone smoking big fat clove cigarettes etc
. Madness on wheels,we were like smoked sardines,eyes watering, pissed as newts, all in a sped up movie in traffic mayhem.
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