hey welcome to another traveling solo log it's me solo back at you with another video about Malaysia
so today my topic is my honest opinion about the country being there for a few months as an
American Foreigner so that being said let's smash the like button and subscribe if you still haven't
already and let's talk about Malaysia firstly let me give you some information about Malaysia
just in case if you don't know that Malaysia is located in Southeast Asia the population
of the country has around 33 million people a little bit less than the state of California
has tropical climate which is going to make you pretty hot if you do visit it's hot climate hot
and warm you'll be sweaty every day but it's nice and sunny so that's really good it's diverse with
its religion diverse with its culture so I'd say Malaysia is like a Melting Pot with different
cultures it has Malay culture Chinese culture Indian culture European culture so it's like
a whole Melting Pot country as I said so that's why they call it purely Asia is because you just
get a lot of different Asian backgrounds all in one country which is pretty nice the country is
predominantly Muslim I believe around 61 of people in Malaysia identify themselves as
Muslim and the rest of the people they identify themselves with another religion such as Hinduism
taoism Christianity and so forth so that's some information about the country in a nutshell I
hope I covered it and if I'm lacking information which I'm sure I am because I'm trying to make
a short video you know leave some comments down below and just add to information about Malaysia
okay so now I finished that so now you have an idea of the country okay so let me first talk to
you about the food in the country so when I first got there I really didn't know too much about
the food culture there so I just went there tried out a lot of the dishes such as nasty kendar Nasi
Caribou which is one of my favorites and all the different types of nasty if you don't know what
nasty is nasty just means rice and then they have like rice dish with like chicken rice dish or this
so that's how come I always say Nancy something so I just want to tell you the food is delicious
it's tasty and it's cheap so all the above me being from a western country usually if I pay
for a meal outside pay me like 10 12 average price over there I got uh I'll show you in the screen I
got a mango shake and also uh rice dish blue rice dish which is called Nancy Caribou I got all that
for 13 Ringgit that's around three dollars U.S or even less you can't go wrong with the prices
over there so food is a big part of Malaysian culture and since it's being a diverse country
if you want Malaysian food there's Malaysian food if you want Chinese food there's Chinese
food Indian food they have Indian food and so forth so you could get pizza European food you
name it oh man just thinking about the food I'm getting hungry I'll surprise the prices
in Malaysia are very good I'm talking about accommodation also the food that I just mentioned
buying clothes I went to a lot of the Street Markets I made a lot of Street Market videos you
can see the cost over there is very good so it's a reasonably priced country that if you want to go
there and travel you can and you won't break the bank if you're a Westerner even if you come from
another country so it's a very affordable country for example I went on a bus ride two-hour bus ride
from Malacca Malaysia to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia it only cost me the bus ride cost me less than
three dollars cost me like nine Ringgits so wow that's a deal so traveling in the country
is pretty cheap if you want to check the bus also if you want to take the plane in the country it's
cheap as well I took a plane ride from Kuala Lumpur to Penang which is another place in
the north western part of the country which I advise you guys go there they have a beautiful
rainforest over there on a mountain mountain Hilltop which I did make a video about that
and I paid for the the price for a ticket with my luggage around thirty dollars so
that's also affordable then I stayed in a lot of hotels some nice hotels some not
so nice hotels but I paid like around 15 a night 20 a night even sometimes around ten
so it's very reasonable so Malaysia is a very reasonably priced country and Southeast Asia and
I would say if you wanted to like budge over there I can make a full budget video but just Briefly
summarize my living expenses around a thousand dollars US per month give or take so it was pretty
good uh maybe depending how you spend where you could spend less maybe you could spend more but
that's just basically me being American Foreigner how much I spent in Malaysia so the third thing
is I just don't talk about the Malaysian people you guys are so friendly if you're
Malaysian you're watching this really I think Malaysian people are very friendly nice people
I didn't feel like they were mean or aggressive they're very curious people nice gentle humble
really any Malaysian encounter that I had it was always positive nice I never had like some guy
look at me bad or give me like a death stare or something in some countries because you know a lot
of times I'd be recording on the streets showing some food showing this people were really happy to
show me their food and they're just excited for me as a foreigner to come to their country so if you
do come to Malaysia just know that they're very happy to see foreigners and I feel like I'm like
part of like a tourism like thing like just come to Malaysia but yeah they're really nice people so
big plus for Malaysia I want to talk to you also about their Capital City Kuala Lumpur
is an amazing City it's very well developed it has great public transportation I would say this
has to be one of the best countries I went to for public transportation they have buses they
have trains they have monorails they have like every type of public transportation you want
and it's very cheap and affordable actually the first month I was there for the first week I was
there as well they're giving out free tokens for the public transportation in Kuala Lumpur
and if you love shopping which I know many people do that are watching this video Malaysia has
one of the biggest malls or actually some of the world's largest malls so if you want to shop till
you drop come to Malaysia I'm serious I've been to Dubai they have gigantic malls over there as well
but Kuala Lumpur has some of the some of the most massive malls I've ever seen in my life they even
have an indoor theme park in one of their malls called Times Square and all the stuff that I'm
talking to you in this video if you want to see separate videos about like what I'm talking to
just check out my channel I made a lot of videos about Malaysia also something I want to talk to
you about since I'm a traveler American traveler that in Malaysia a lot of people know how to speak
English which is great so if you want to travel around Malaysia or ask a question about something
like something about the food or I don't know you just have any random question people could speak
English and they're willing to help you and if the person doesn't know how to speak English somebody
around them will speak English so it's great so you can get easy Communication in Malaysia with
other people and something that I was blessed with to see is I was able to see a lot of different
Malaysian cultural experiences such as like at the sea Eid which is a Muslim holiday in Malaysia I
got to see Malaysia day got to see Malaysia Independence Day which I'll put some clips
they know how to really celebrate their things privileged independence day they had a big parade
a lot of people from different public sectors were just having fun showing off different public
vehicles and whatnot and Malaysia a day which is a little bit different than independence day
they had fireworks they had music performers they really know how to celebrate things in Malaysia
so there's a lot of activities always going around I also want this one thing called Malaysian games
where people were playing their local sports and also Spectators people could just join if
they want to for some of the sports and activities over there so they have a lot of activities there
so it's a really nice country I really had a great time in Malaysia Malaysia is one of my
favorite countries in the world and I'd love to go back I didn't really have any negative experiences
really the only one negative experience that I'm thinking on top of my head was once I bought a
burger called rambly burger and uh people said I got charged too much got charged for like 10
RM which is like two dollars something for a burger for as a Westerner I don't think that's
too expensive but people are saying I should have got charged like half the price but it's okay you
know people get ripped off foreigners get ripped off in any country but in general Malaysia is a
good country and only got ripped off one time out of my three months so yeah guys let me know
what you think about Malaysia would you want to go there and if you're Malaysia if you're Malaysian
what do you think about your country do you love it what do you think like should foreigners come
to your country or should they not please let me know as always smash the like button subscribe
and I'll catch you on the next one peace and by the way I'm in a new country right now this
is why I made the video so check out where I'm at right now and if you want to see more videos
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