Merlin Hotel Narathiwat

... Bersut overnight. The next day we will set off for the East West Highway which crosses over to the west of the peninsular, and to Penang. We have very fond memories of Penang, particularly Georgetown and a little village called Teluk Behang, which we visited 20 years ago, So much so that we are reluctant to go back to Teluk Behang because it might spoil those memories, but we will go to Georgetown and keep our fingers crossed that it hasn't been spoiled too much. Laters

... relaxing (if you ignored the fact that the driver was sitting on the fuel container and smoking, as he did while switching from one tank to the other). Over the river from Kuala Tahan is the national park, just a 30 second boat ride away. This rain forest is the oldest in the world - about 130 million years old. So after finding somewhere to stay I got a boat across the river and went for a walk to the canopy walkway. This is 30 metres high ...

... The first half of the museum contains a rough guide to the early history of the malay peninsula and to muslim influence and religion. This part was more of a display of religous devotion. The second half of the musem was much more interesting with displays about games art and music native to Malaysia. Including competative kite flying and top spinning, shadow puppet displays, traditional music and dance, particularly of note was spontaneous poetry (the real ...

... v Starbucksu, nekam na eno stratesko mesto pod pis iz klimatske naprave, ker je to le neko spodobno velemesto in bi kot tako moralo imeti tudi spodobno zeleznisko postajo. Nak. Ni slo, vsi ambiciozni nacrti so splavali po vodi. Zelezniska postaja ima peron, wc in molilnico. Aja, pa trafiko z malezijskimi cajtngi. Zelezniska postaja Studenci je v primerjavi s tole tukaj Berliner ...

... night market which we stumbled upon was not very interesting in comparison of those we have visited in Laos and Thailand. 23rd June 2008 Kota Bharu : Woke up and had a hearty breakfast at the hotel. It was included in the room rate we paid, which was only Ringgit Malaysia 125! For the price which we had paid for, we couldn't have asked for more. The room was okay-ish, shower ...

... ropes and chains. Hels could not believe that she had actually climbed this two days ago althougfh the legs told a different story Down in time for quick lunch and sort backpacks out. At this point Tony decided that his old trainers with no grip would go into the bin and a picture was taken. Then I returned to put on my deluxe soft kid leather Hush Puppy sandals bought in KL to discover that when I fell over I had lost one in the jungle.......I quietly tried to ...

... full, we headed back home to sleep. The morning was a van ride, and then a boat ride out to Perhentian Cecil, where we stayed on "Long Beach". Granted, it is the longest beach on the island. We got a room, got into our bathing suits, grabbed our snorkels and headed across the island to the beach. A lot of dead coral, though still some decent snorkeling. Huge Giant Clams, and some rock fish. Lots of anenomes and clown fish as ...

... around town until around 4:30 and then went back to the hotel. Kristin, Kuljit, Whitney and I flew back to KL tonight at 9:40. We didn't get back to the apartments until after midnight. Then, tomorrow Whitney and I leave for Singapore at 7:00 a.m., so we have to leave the apartment at 6:00. I will hopefully sleep on the bus. For now though, I should go to bed.

... le tour de Kota Bahru et on s'arrete dans tous les magasins et on achete un truc ou l'autre. J'investis dans de la creme solaire, de l'anti-moustique, des plaquettes tueuses de moustiques, des slips pour killian, des crayons, du papier toilette, des autocollants spiderman, .... La ville n'est pas charmante, et je me dis que demain on va partir. Tant pis pour les batik j'en trouverai ailleurs! Je me renseigne donc pour les bus : il y en a toute les heures pour ...

... thru the exiting Thailand station - where I had to pay 500 baht as I was a day over my visa, then we went for a drive for a few mins and it was kinda like no mans land - no mans in the fact that you wernt really in a country as you had signed out of Thailand but not into Malaysia yet. Funny thing was that there were heaps of alcohol and cigarette shops there. Then we went thru the Malaysian station and they stamped my passport again. Then we drove ...