Today is my last full day in Malaysia. Luckily, my ATM card along with my passport was in my moneybelt yesterday. So I can still get money.
I met up with my friend and we started walking and walking. We walked to the Yuen clan shrine. Then we decided to walk to a Chinese Temple. On the way, we noticed a big fence and a big door which was unlocked. We walked in through the door to find a nice garden. Then we surprised a security guard because we just entered the backyard of the king of Malaysia, Istana Negara (National Palace). I think it is the guy who appears on all the money here. So we went out through the back door again.
Continuing on, we see a sign to a temple. It is a different one to what we had in mind, but we took our chances. We walked for what seemed a few kilometers and then we entered a huge Chinese cemetery. We found the temple hidden behind some warehouses and a crematorium and with locked gates. It was not very inviting and seemed like a little visited place, perhaps only for the dead people outside. We were let in by some family living there along with some nuns.
Then it was back to the cemetery and back to the main highway and up another hill to the original place we wanted to see, Thean Hou Temple. My friend was so tired, he slept on a stone bench there. I walked around until I slipped and fell down some wet stairs. I got up and thought this is why I’m traveling while I’m young. I wouldn’t want to break a hip. It was getting dark, so I found a monorail stop, said goodbye, and went back to the hostel for my last night in Malaysia.