Malaysian Countryside

This is the Malaysian countryside as I traveled in a bus from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. What I noticed was that the countryside, from the window of a bus, looks a whole lot like the countryside in many other parts of the world. However, when the bus moved on down the road to a more cultivated space of land, the scenery in the picture changed. Here, palm trees were the primary landscape. These palm trees had economic advantages over the wild jungle canopy.