Crown Regency Kuala Lumpur

... let them know that isn't the most appropriate name for them. 2 hours later, 2 very long hours, I hussled back to the hostel to meet an english girl and australian boy for a day trip to the Batu Caves. Always an adventure taking public buses places in Asia. We say the biggest gold staute of some buddist religion there and the one cave. I was expecting so much more but as always an experiance. Oh and ...

... unpleasant viewing as per landing in Dubai, when it looked as if another plane was heading straight for us! Was slightly surprised that Dubai airport was quite so busy at 2am! It clearly is the New York of airports in that it never sleeps.

Arrived into KL in a monumental downpour; it's pretty overcast here but hot (and humid; back to frizzy hair and shiny face!). Didn't do an awful lot yesterday as for the first time on this trip feeling ...

... of the taxi it had come to £2, so I didn't bother brining it up with him.

Well, our proposed trip to all these attractions was in vein when we realised that none of them accepted card payments, there was no cash machine, and we only had 36 Ringott. So we ended up going to an Orchid Garden (with no orchids in it), a planetarium (with no show or star simulator as it was being fixed which was probably why it was free), and to the lake gardens where we hired a ...

... my head and clicked my neck, one way and then the other way, making a loud crack each time, it felt quite good after standing still for so long, but was a new take on a haircut service for me. In the same day I had another interesting experience, we went to this spa where you can put your feet in this pool with fish in, tiny fish which eat all the dead skin off your feet, it sounds gross but its cool. I did it as Sacha had done it before and said it was fun, he wasn't ...

... a brand new hostel called "Monkee Inn" that had free internet and breakfast. At the sound of "free internet" Michael and I immediately agreed to follow the guy. He ended up leading us into a fabulous hostel in the middle of Chinatown which is a quiet respite from the crazy streets below.

For the next few days we would wander around getting ready for our trip over to the islands of Pulau Perhentian on the northeast coast of the peninsula. As ...

... Spire. In the day they are impressive (if not pretty), huge steel and glass towering in the air, at night when they light them up they are really quite beautiful however and dominate the skyline.

One day Paul experienced perhaps the most bizaare experience of the trip so far - fish reflexology. You basically pop your feet in an aquarium and hundreds of fish nibble all the dead skin from your feet! A very, very odd sensation & definitely not one for the ...

... He was on an eleven month trip from Australia to Germany. His
goal was not fly anywhere, but he could use boats, and overland transport that
only included trains, hitching, cabs, and local buses. No private companies.
Fabian was well travelled and experienced, and was open and could easily engage
other cultures. I couldn't help but to laugh when we talked with our
flamboyant Indian host about getting around to other towns. Fabian asked him
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia tstiles

... was only a restaurant there. Huh? How do I get in?

“Go down the alley-the entrance is on your right!” yelled a voice loudly from above. I looked around. Where’d that voice come from? I looked up 2 storeys confused and saw no one. “Up here!” shouted someone again. “What!” I exclaimed as I looked up to see a pudgy guy with brown curly hair sitting on the corner of the balcony waving at me ...

... accommodation part of town which had nothing to really do other than check out a boring mall. Since I wanted to be close enough to the guesthouse to make sure I could care for Greg, I spent the majority of my time in the mall and the supermarket. The book had made it sound like the town was a backpakers town, but I saw maybe 2 other foreigners so my hopes of finding new friends to hang out with were dashed. In the beginning I was excited about the supermarket (I have a ...

As a traveler's rule, I don’t do simple fly-ins. I need to see some landscape, or how do I know that the place really exists? They could just fly me around in circles for two hours, then land at some theme park. How would I know the difference? This is the reason conspiracies among blogger-floggers can flourish. The path from the earth to the moon leaves no tracks nor traces, so difficult to prove or disprove. That’s the beauty of conspiracy- you can ...