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Tourism Experience In Malaysia

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Malaysia is a multi-cultural, multi-racial, and multi-religion country, the society of which the population is made up by various types of ethnic groups comprised of Malays, Chinese, Indian and the Native. In fact, different ethnic groups in Malaysia have their own history, culture, tradition, belief system, value and language, there is thus unity among different ethnics is vital in Malaysia. Since Malaysia is a multi-racial country, the citizen can experience a multitude of celebrations and festivals in a year. For instance, Malay will celebrate ‘Hari Raya Aidilfitri’ and ‘Hari Raya Haji’, but the month they celebrate the festivals is depend on the Islamic calendar. In addition, Chinese will celebrate ‘Chinese New Year’ usually on January or February and Mid-autumn festival on September. Besides, Indians celebrate the festival of ‘Thaipusam’ on January and ‘Deepavali’ on November.
In this Malaysia Experiential Tourism assignment, the main purpose is to describe and share my experience on Bazaar Ramadhan. When I was still a child, I totally have no idea what is Ramadhan and why Muslims need to fast for one month. One of the main reasons is because I am a Chinese. During my childhood, I clearly remembered that there are always two long rows of stalls which can up to 1 km or 2km long were set up at the empty area nearby my house area but it only available on the particular month in a year and usually is only last for approximately one month. At that moment, I started being

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