Tuesday, July 18, 2006

another brush with royalty

Another thing we forgot to post earlier. On our first day in Kuching, we saw the Queen of Malaysia! We were walking down the street by the river, and a big motorcade came by and stopped in front of us. We walked to the other side of the street and asked what was up. Someone told us that the Queen had just arrived and was shopping in the clothing store that we were in front of. We joined the gawkers for a bit and got a glimpse of Her Highness. I mostly saw a big bouffant with a headscarf perched on top.

Later that day, we discovered that the King and Queen were in town for a festival of indigenous Borneo culture. We went to the festival, driven by the proprietor at our guest house. It was alright, a lot of speeches in Malaysians by Ministers of Culture and such, then traditional singing and dancing and a play about a native boy becoming a hero in order to win his girl's affection, with little bits of how well all the cultures in Malaysia get along.

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