Port Dickson, Malaysia Travel Blogs

catching up
Apr 18, 2004 (5 photos)

Cant believe I left this so long, I know its only been a week in 'real time', but that's a looong time over here, so a lot has happened. This probably wont be too detailed, so for an EXTREMELY detailed and slightly different version of whats been ...

A taste of Malaysia's heart...without eating it
Oct 8, 2009 (80 photos)

... !!! Made ya titter though, eh? No, actually he kindly offered me a (temporary) place at his family home in Port Dickson. I checked my anus one last time, then gladly accepted. Two bus rides later, the second meandering through dense palm tree ...

Happy Christmas and a Great New Year to all
Dec 22, 2007

... and a great new year. Arrived in Port Dickson to the south of Kuala Lumpur, with the plan of spending Christmas on the beach, Port Dickson is a small beach resort with very nice hotels, friendly people and even places to camp on the beach! We took the ...

Sailing to Sumatra
Jul 12, 2004

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Elephants at Christmas
Dec 24, 2007 (11 photos)

Today we took a trip to the elephant sanctuary, whislt most people are rushing around trying to find brandy sauce and standing in a turkey queue we headed into the rain forest. Krua is a national park a bit closer to Kuala Lumpur than Taman Negara and is ...

The Malaysian Coast and then KL Again
May 3, 2008 (10 photos)

... the night to check-in to our suite at the EnCasa Hotel, a much more pleasant place to call home. Regular outings in Port Dickson include afternoon swims in the multiple pools (with 3 waterslides) and dinners at Pizza Hut, otherwise the place is kind ...

Early morning departure to catch the company plane
Apr 17, 2009 (10 photos)

Had to leave to Duri camp to take the bus journey out to Dumai. Instead of taking the chopper back down south to Rumbai for the commercial flight to Jakarta. We are going back on the company plane.

Transactional Analysis
Aug 28, 1982

Session on Transactional Analysis. Meant for management training but relatable to the AFS experience. Beat our chaperon 91-2 at backgammon. Swim in sea. After dinner, "prepared" for our skit. Did song to Jet's theme. After all the skits, singing around ...

Beach without boredom
Sep 21, 1982

Morning drive to visit honeymoon couple. Spent the early day at their hotel and beach. I took a lone walk until I reach the soldier encampment but didn't want to go farther. Returned to hotel. I have discovered that I have an amazing capacity to occupy ...

Sunburnt -- ouch!
Jun 7, 1982

May and I woke up at 8:45am and went downstairs. After we ate, we went for a drive to Blue Lagoon ... but it was too crowded so we didn't stop. We returned to Golden Sands and spent the morning swimming. I relaxed on one raft most of the time so got an ...

Welcome to Indo!
Mar 4, 2009 (4 photos)

... allait être quelque chose de différent... Il n'y avait que trois autres touristes sur le bateau, et une fois arrivé sur le port nous n'avons pas eu a faire la queue pour les visas mais avons été directement redirigé juste devant les portes. C'était un peu ...

Dumai
Jun 7, 2006

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Mid-year retreat begins
Aug 25, 1982

... , Mommy drove me down to Puduraya. Met Stacy and Joyce (and of course others) there. Sat with Joyce on the bus ride down to Port Dickson. We changed buses once here and took a local to the Methodist Centre. It took some time to get our dorm rooms, sat in ...

Port Dickson
Apr 14, 2009 (20 photos)

Super fedt sted

Mid year self-evaluations
Aug 26, 1982

Self-evaluations started today. As Americans, we assessed our worst troubles, which we listed as being woken up too early and dealing with superstition. Went swimming in afternoon. Joyce was homesick (for her Malaysian family), so I stayed with her until ...

Music, proselytizing, and badminton
Sep 18, 1982

I was left to watch the bungalow while everybody else went out for breakfast then spent the morning reading and walking along the beach. After a minimal lunch, Mom, Uncle Tay, Cze Loon, Henry, Robin, and Sunny came. Spent the afternoon down on the beach ( ...

Rafting and Football
Jul 23, 1982

Woke early but stayed in bed for quite a while. Went out in dinghy with Markus, Moshe and May-May. Then went for a swim and ended up playing keep-away with M&M. Lunch late. Made worthless trip to hotel (Kathy not home). When we got back, played first half ...

A wedding lunch
Sep 19, 1982

... to stare as only Malaysians can stare. Cze Loon pouted through the rest of the lunch. We left about 5pm and returned to Port Dickson, to a different bungalow this time. Everybody else had returned to PJ. Cze Loon, Victor, and I were staying on at the IBM ...

Kuala Lumpor
Dec 8, 2008

As we had extended our stay in Thailand, we didn't have that much time to explore Malaysia - although we hadn't heard that many good stories about it so we didn't mind skipping through it! Our bus arrived at 4am in Kuala Lumpor, dumped off at a traffic ...

Travel Day
Sep 30, 2006

... to Singapore - 5 Hour Bus ride across the border into Malaysia. Traveled to our final MBA destination, Avillion Resort in Port Dickson, Melaka Arrived at 10pm local time, resort looks really beautiful, we are staying in stilt houses set out over the ...

Durian fruit
Jul 24, 1982

did little between breakfast and lunch -- walked along the beach, went to the stalls, called Kathy. After lunch, sat around and talked with people. Played carroms and tried a little gymnastics on the beach. Then the Foos, Markus and Moshe, Jay, Mom, Pat ...

A beach-y life...
Mar 4, 2007

Went to Port Dickson a few weeks back...it was a chance to be amongst nature once again so I grabbed the invitation. Port Dickson is about an hour or an hour and half drive from KL (or it can be just 45mins..depending on how fast you drive) and it is the ...

Port Dickson
Apr 29, 2008

Dinner and Stay at Port Dickson

En voyage!
Oct 10, 2005 (10 photos)

Bonjour! Je suis au moment de la rédaction de ces lignes sur un bateau entre la Malaisie et l'Indonésie. Dernièrement j'ai beaucoup bougé. De Kuala Lumpur, j'ai quitté pour Singapour le 6 octobre. Singapour est quand à moi une place très intéressante où rester. C' ...

Where am I? Where am I going?
Aug 27, 1982

The morning session was Where am I? Seemed a bit silly. I know where I am. To beach after lunch. I had my first talk with Jane -- we both recognized that we are as strangers. The afternoon session was Where am I going? We have to find an ultimate goal. ...

Port Dickson
Dec 21, 2009 (5 photos)

Quelques jours avant Noel et apres quelques jours dans la grande ville de Kuala Lumpur, on a pris une pause plage. Les deux pieds dans l eau, l hotel a moins de 30 pas de la plage, a regarder le coucher du soleil en sirotant notre cafe (parce que la ...

To Port Dickson
Jul 22, 1982

Went with Mom to the market in the morning. Bought tons of food. Drove down with Victor, May and Robin to PD. Stopped by the bungalow then went to NUBE for lunch. Swam in the afternoon. After dinner, played MAD game, lost at carroms, chased crabs, sang ...

Drinking at the bungalow
Sep 17, 1982

... before. All (except one uncle) are Chinese-educated and speak no English, so I couldn't talk to them. Anyway, we all drove to Port Dickson to stay at the Banda Raya bungalow. Reached PD about 10pm; had supper at one of the stalls there. I needed to use ...

To Port Dickson
Jun 5, 1982

... board. It was a lovely drive, the day was cloudy, so it wasn't hot. We (CL, Victor, Dad, May, and I) stopped once in Port Dickson for ice kacang then drove to the villa to meet Chi Kong and BB (his girlfriend). After we settled, we walked down to the beach ...

Port Dickson......um okay
Apr 21, 2009

We decided to go to Port Dickson because we were told that's were the locals went to vacation. After 2 buses we arrived there. The long and short of it is there is not much to do there. I walked down by the beach and sat and watched the waves for a while. ...