As I said before, the same way people don't usually say that have been to the US if they have stopped by Hawaii, Langkawi is by no means representative about Kedah and so I won't talk about it. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure most Singaporeans know Langkawi is Kedah. I will leave a couple of pictures of the cable car ascent up the hill though, because it is the steepest cable car ascent in the world, and because the scenery was breathtaking...
To me, to get a significant feel of the essence of Kedah, the journey must be done overland...
And this, we did the old fashioned way... By scrambling to get a bus from Larkin Station in JB
We reached the Kedah bus station early in the morning and hired a cabbie to bring us around. As it turns out, we were lucky, because he was, according to him at least, one of the few taxi drivers in the area who could speak fluent English.
This is a view of the Menara Alor Star, which was ostensibly built to signify progress in Kedah
And this is a view FROM the Menara...
One thing that fascinated Rabbit, but for which I was a little more tepid, was the visit to the house where Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, grew up. There are pictures and some memorabilia inside.
Can't help but draw a contrast with Singapore's founding PM (he had not passed on when we visited this place). When Lee Kuan Yew passed away, he stated in his Will that he wished for his house at Oxley Road to be demolished so that further development could take place there.
Ok, Mahathir was one of Malaysia's better known Prime Minister's. But he wasn't the founding Prime Minister of Malaysia. He wasn't even the second Prime Minister. And he is actually still alive. But yet his house is already turned into a museum.
Ok. Enough of my thoughts on that. Let's not stray down that road. Actually, let's call it a post for Kedah.
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