Visiting Malaysia wasn’t part of our travel itinerary; in fact, we had never even considered it. However, with Bangladesh beheading non-Muslims, especially atheists, at the time, and us being lazy about procuring visas to Myranmar, we felt we were left with Thailand, where there were no visa requirements. While searching for tickets to Bangkok, though, we came across reasonably-priced flights to Malaysia (much cheaper than flying to Thailand) and, after a quick Internet search, learned that no visas were required there either. And just like that, we booked two tics on Air Asia to Kuala Lumpur. Truth be told, as we discovered on the flight over, neither of us knew much about Malaysia, except for the mundane information that it is a Muslim nation, that it bordered Singapore, and - since it once had the tallest
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