- Beginning of the journey in Alor Setar: Philippe takes the train to Padang Besar: a woman is speaking of the beautiful landscapes of the rice fields with its serpents.So Philippe will meet Zinudine, serpent hunter: in the middle of a rice field Zinudine catches a cobra (he catches every week 14-15 serpents in this area), they go to his house: Zinudine explains that he keeps alive the serpents for educational purposes, he also extracts the venom of the cobras to send it to a university where they produce antivenins.Then Philippe takes the train from Butterworth to Kuala Lumpur: conversation with a Indian Malaysian women about the differences between Malaysian and Malay.Philippe explains shortly the story of Kuala Lumpue and then takes a suburban train: all the passengers go to Batu Caves: a great pilgrimage of of Indian Malaysians to god Murugan (Malay name of Kartikeia, the son of Shiva).There a man with hooks in his back is pulling a carriage without feeling any pain, later he climbs the steps to the statue of Murugan and awakes with some pains, happy to have realized his pilgrimage.In the train to Malacca Philippe meets a man of this town who offers him to show this place, a mixture of Maly, Portuguese, Dutch, British and Chinese influence.They visit an old Chinenese temple and then the mosque.Last travel from Mentakab to Gua Musang (the jungle train).Philippes meet Lim, a member of the Orang Asli community, who is hunting with his blowgun, in the village Lim and his parents are speaking about the jungle which gives them food, medicine and about the experience of theirs ancestors.—zutterjp48
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