Took a morning taxi from Kota Baru to Jerteh, where our friend Mike Frank worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He told us that when we got to Jerteh, just take a taxi to “the rest house.” We weren’t very certain that these directions would be explicit enough but, sure enough, our taxi driver from KB asked us in Jerteh if we were going to the rest house and we said, “Yes!.” He drove us to the door of a lovely hotel on the beach with a view of the ocean from our room. These are government run hotels and quite cheap. We ate rice and vegetables and other Malay-type food.
That night there was to be a total eclipse of the moon so we took our blanket onto the sand. The moon was perfectly round and bright so we went for a moonlight dip. About 10pm the first “bite” was taken out and by 11pm the moon had disappeared and been replaced by a dull brown circle. It was very dark and there was drumming which we were told would bring back the moon from the belly of the snake that had swallowed it. It worked after about 2 hours.
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