Malaysia Travel Blogs

... e-mail them to get there secret spicy secret sauce, which the name deserts me on, simple creature, big tummy. Malaysia, good, good first impressions, really multicultural, majority Muslim country, but many Chinese, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian, we really ...

A travel blog entry from Georgetown, Penang by mills-mcshea
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So on our second day here, Maureen and I have settled into our own little routines. Maureen likes reading her books in the shade in her lounge chair , and I like laying on my beach towel down on the sand , watching the waves and being warm!!!! I have been ...

A travel blog entry from Langkawi by elizacass
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So we arrived in Langkawi on Monday 24th April at Lunchtime after a 2.5 hr ferry from Penang. We decided on going to Pantai Cenang to get a place to stay as we had been recommended AB Motel there. The recommendation was a reliable one and for about 15 ...

A travel blog entry from Langkawi by paulandciara
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So much for all our plans of excitement and adventure in Langkawi. We arrived, we sat on the beach, we had a beer, we ate some, we had a swim, we had another beer, another beer, another beer... After 6 months of torture at the hands of Paul Bloody ...

A travel blog entry from Langkawi by carolandthomas
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Touch down in KL after a great flight and make our way to the hotel. We have a couple of days here to see the sights and chill out before the final flight back to the UK - how depressing! Our hotel is in a great location right next to all the hawker ...

A travel blog entry from Kuala Lumpur by carolandthomas
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Borneo! My preconceptions of this place were of primitive jungle, full of headhunters and crocodiles competing to end my trip even earlier. Well... a concrete jungle and a traffic jam were my first impressions. It got better fast though. Kuching is a ...

A travel blog entry from Kuching by zee
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The most amazing thing happened on the way to Penang... an easy border crossing! Wait- stop. Think about it. Appreciate it, as I did. This was bloody amazing. Innumerable minibus, bus and ferry transfers worked seamlessly. No one ripped me off. Customs ...

A travel blog entry from Penang by zee
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... bus (public transport in Malaysia is flawless) to Kek Lok Si Temple in Air Itam, it's the biggest buddhist temple in Malaysia. Luckily that day there was very few people around and this gave the place a really eerie, peaceful feeling. The architecture and ...

A travel blog entry from Pinang by stephen.j.booth
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... my way around foreign cites so well on my own. But we've managed to not get too lost. The local people from Malaysia  are soooo nice, we have only met two other Americans , and there are few tourist her at all. The food has such variety, ...

A travel blog entry from Kuala Lumpur by elizacass
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So on we go We got a bus from KL to Penang (5hrs) and across the bridge to the island. We decided against staying in Georgetown which is the capital, so we got a taxi up to a place called Batu Ferringghi and tonight for about 3 quid each we are ...

A travel blog entry from Penang by paulandciara
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... queue was to big for us to get any tickets for a anything in the next three hours. We met a nice couple traveling up Malaysia in a bar, they were shocked by how dirty the place we were staying was, obviously they had just come from Singapore and Australia, ...

A travel blog entry from Kuala Lumpur by mills-mcshea
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So our first full day in Langkawi started out with some relaxing beach time...the water here is warm and beautiful, and the beaches have the whitest sand I have ever seen. The small boutique hotel has only about 20 rooms, and about 15 beach chairs, so ...

A travel blog entry from Langkawi by elizacass
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Wow. Pizza Hut. I love you. Definitely my first stop after the islands. I know, this is sheer treason to the older travellers who regaled me with their stories when i was growing up and helped instill my wanderlust. I'm sure their motto would run ...

A travel blog entry from Kuala Lumpur by zee
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... Sunshine, all as Mr. Czech showed me around town and shared what knowledge he had of it. We ate dinner at a hawker center (Malaysia has them too), his was fried rice, mine was fried rice + fried egg. I hoped to order something more interesting, but had a ...

A travel blog entry from Georgetown by sirrocko711
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We arrived in Cherating around 8pm on Sunday evening. When i say arrived, we were left on the main road by our bus. We had checked out a place in lonely planet called Cerating Cottage which we went to and got a room(RM50) for the night. We had something ...

A travel blog entry from Cherating by paulandciara
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We left Mersing for the Tioman Islands on Tue 9th May 2006 With a Phil and Julie who we had met on our 1st day in the Perhentian Islands. We went across on a very packed 5.30pm Ferry (RM 70 return each) and arrived at ABC resort just before 8pm....It was ...

A travel blog entry from Tioman Islands by paulandciara
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... underbrush, with streams of water running throughout. Bangladeshi workers brave the steep inclines picking the finest tea Malaysia has to offer. Clouds glide atop mountains like white feathers flying in the wind, rising from the valleys of ...

A travel blog entry from Cameron Highlands by lisa-ashley
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On Sunday 12th September 2004 I went to Palace Payar Marine park, this is near Langkawi Island. From Georgetown we took a ferry to the park, it took about 1 ½ hours to get there, but sitting on the top deck of the ferry in the sun made it a very nice trip ...

A travel blog entry from Penang by penguinmad
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... . We ventured back to resort, via some impressive snorkeling,  to search for Jorge before hopping on the boat to Langkawi in Malaysia.  Once in Langkawi, we find a beautiful resort just in time to change and head out to dinner and then hit up ...

A travel blog entry from Langkawi by madman96
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... on Merkada Square(sounds unimpressive but is actually pretty damn huge, the tallest in the world) which was raised when Malaysia gained its independance, every year thousands descend on the grassy area to celebrate Merdeka Day. I was really taken aback by ...

A travel blog entry from Kuala Lumpur by stephen.j.booth
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... out sounding like some strange mix of Malay and Italian with a heavy dose of Mr. Spock.  "Heya.. youuuu.  You likka Malaysia?  Whatever image that congers up in your mind is probably the right one.  Got a local bus out first thing in ...

A travel blog entry from Cameron Highlands by hancocjb
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Route: Ka La He - Baling Total Distance: 12km Altitude up: 100m Altitude down: 600m When I leave only light rain is falling and it is cold. My breath forms mist in front of my mouth - no wrong thoughts, I have brushed my teeth. It must be about 10 ...

A travel blog entry from Baling by kurtmult
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A travel blog entry from Kuala Lumpur by loudan1979
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Leaving Borneo tomorrow and going back to the capital Kuala Lumpur on Peninsular Malaysia. It's been a fantastic month on this huge island (third largest in the world after Austrailia and Greenland) and the highlight for me has got to be climbing Mount ...

A travel blog entry from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah by jawad
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I have found a place here on the main street that sells mango lassi and a whole host of vegetarian dishes. It is called Tcafe and although pricey when compared with other Malaysian restaurants its worth it for the mango lassi. They don't sell it by the ...

A travel blog entry from Tcafe, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands by jawad
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... your nose, and the culture is at least vaguely familiar. Leave it to say that India was an "adventure" and Malaysia is a "vacation"... She Said: A tremendous wave of relief ran through me as we walked up the gangway into the Singapore airport. It ...

A travel blog entry from Kuala Lumpur by globedecker
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KL is a great city to explore on foot. Nothing is too far away and some of the sights are breathtaking. When the heat and humidity gets too much you can just nip into the nearest mall for a bit of welcome air-conditioning. And if you happen to see an ...

A travel blog entry from Golden Triangle, Kuala Lumpur by jawad
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... was impressive. Certainly gives Christian faiths a run for their money as far as devotion goes. Taking a bus out of Singapore into Malaysia was boring but eventful. On the bus, off the bus. On the bus off the bus. The boarder crossing is easy, under ...

A travel blog entry from Kuala Taman by cleff
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... National History Museum (at Merdeka Square, where else) is good for a couple of hours. There is an interesting exhibit on Malaysia's Megalithic past with photos of some of the stone structures that have been left in Borneo. I also liked the money that ...

A travel blog entry from Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur by jawad
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After two nights spent at the base camp and organising a guide and group to go up the mountain with us, it was finally time to set off and climb the tallest mountain in South East Asia. Just to put things into perspective, we would be climbing to the ...

A travel blog entry from Mount Kinabalu midway point, Sabah by jawad
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