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    My Wife is a Malaysian of half Chinese and half Iban heritage. As our first wedding was here in the U.S. her family missed out on seeing it. We decided to go to Malaysia and have two weddings there, one for the Iban family and one for the Chinese family. To make matters scarier the Iban people were a fierce warrior tribe of Malaysia, often called Dyaks. They were headhunters until the early part of the 1900's. They tend to still be a close knit community, relying much on each other, and are a very proud people. Although Malaysia is a Muslim country, most of the Iban's practice Christianity.

We have now been to Malaysia many times but our first trip was the craziest. Here is our story.

Plane Flight
     We started out leaving the Memphis area in mid December for Malaysia. The plane ride was horrific as we bought the cheapest tickets we could find the route was anything but efficient. We flew from Memphis to Atlanta to New York to Newark to Alaska to Taipei to Kuala Lumpur to Kuching Malaysia. The flight, with stopovers was 38 hours total. We were also flying on China Airlines, which planes do not have the modern conveniences of its contemporaries. The plane ride was a bit funny, as the stewards on the plane treated me so nice but treated my wife and the others rather rudely. My wife says it is because I was one of the few non Asian on the plane. I looked around and found this to be true, they really were treating the Caucasian people better than the Asians. A strange kind of reverse racism I have now found prevails throughout Asia. The plane ride was rather uneventful and we were both rather oily and nasty by the time we arrived in Malaysia, plus our ears hurt like mad from all the air pressure changes. I would recommend when flying overseas to take the flight with the least amount of stopovers possible.
WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE AFTER 36 HOURS OF TRAVEL

On to Kuala Lumpur

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