There's not too much to tell today. I borrowed a bicycle from the friendly proprietor of this guesthouse, got out my not-so-trusty tourist map, and bungled around the city.
I started out by going to a district mainly inhabited by Indians and ran across a remarkable temple. The building is basically a brutalist concrete rectangle, but the facade is covered in very unusual statues. It must be the temple of the Fat Goddess, because a lot of the statues were of an immensely fat and very formidable-looking woman with boar's teeth. You wouldn't want to mess with her. Or her companion.
In case any of you are thinking of making a trip to the tropics, let me warn you about bicycling. Because you're generating your own breeze, you don't realize how much exertion you're doing. It's hard to drink enough here at the best of times, but you need even more when bicycling in this kind of heat. (It's consistently in the low 90s with 80% humidity.) It's really easy to get heat exhaustion. I had to sit by the river for a while, drinking water and recovering before I could make it home for a greatly needed shower.
Onward to Borneo tomorrow!
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