Piccolo Hotel Kuala Lumpur

... br><br>I toured through most of the city on Saturday - it's a very green and pretty city to visit - but went to bed quite early as the heat (34 degrees) wore me out. After spending 3 weeks in China - where it was MUCH cooler - the heat and humidity of Malaysia were a shock to my system.<br><br>Sunday morning I went up Kuala Lumpur Tower to get a view of the city. The day I was there they were holding a base ...

... off' meat.<br>So I had a shower and confirmed it wasn't me.<br>Whatever the smell is, you get used to it pretty quickly (I later found it was the Durian Fruit, which smells exactly like old rubbish). And smells aside, the food is fantastic here. Food stalls sell all sorts of stuff, both vegetarian and meat-atarian (I used to like saying "I'm a meat-atarian. I don't agree with killing plants - they can't run away like animals"). <br>There are tons of ...

... e...<br><br> Je m'offris également quelques excursions dans Lombok. Ascension jusqu'au cratère du Rinjani (volcan le plus haut d 'Indonésie) pour passer la nuit devant un spectacle étonnant: un volcan vrombissant et sa lave en fusion... Je n'oublierai pas non plus! Puis, découverte de l'intérieur de l'île et des plages du Sud à moto. <br><br> S'il est besoin de résumer: J'ai beaucoup aimé Lombok. Néanmoins, l'Inde me manqua. Elle me hante toujours ...

... take pics and a Malay couple who insisted on giving me their Friendster account. I took a walk to a crazy-looking tree-stump with lillypads water fountain and then made my way by skytrain via Pasar Seni to KLCC.<br><br>When I arrived there, I was originally told it was already all booked. But then, I got the lucky last ticket that someone had cancelled at 4:00 and was able to do the free bridge tour when I arrived. I got AMAZING pics! I ...

... lorry tyres which were all tied together and loaded with all our goods sealed into plastic sacks.<br><br>We returned to Medan by minibus, my seat was on top of the engine and very hot! and something even made a hole in my trousers! Booked into a different hostel, much cheaper and basically the same facilities. Two of the lads from the trek turned up and we spent the evening with them. Having waved them off the next morning Roger and I had a bowling ...

Today was truly a great day. After eating breakfast at the hostel (including hot coffee which was a big mistake as I began sweating even before I left), I walked to the Puduraya bus terminal to buy a bus ticket to Melaka. I was recommended Transnasional or KKKL and since I saw Transnasional first, I went with them. Then, wanting to get a feel for KL's neighbourhoods which I didn't really get to do ...

... some kind of problem with the sensors because I'm obviously ill! Shelley gave me a look that said " Malingering git!" The only rational explanation I can think of is that the camera was fine tuned to pick up swine flu and not the far more serious and notably deadly strain of Man Flu! Our first stamp goes in our Passport and after picking up our backpacks we get on the Skybus service to KL Sentral train station. At the station we caught the monorail to near where our guesthouse ...

... Lumpur began with our next door neighbours having a coughing fit, as Robbie put it you could hear someone pick their **** 10 doors down! We walked through Little India picking up some samosa's along our way and wandering through the authentic streets and markets on our way to Bukit Bintang the central shopping and eating district. There was about 3 huge shopping malls lined up together, we headed into the Pavillion Mall the biggest and grandest of them all, the marble ...

Ah...... the last 3 weeks have gone by so quickly! Its funny how every time you get to the end of your trip, time just flies by. Since my airline gave me the option of extending my trip without paying anything, I decided to extend my trip for another 25 days to move a little slower through Malaysia and then hit the Philippines up for 3 weeks for some intense diving. When I got back to Thailand from Indo, Marijke and I decided to go to Ko Phi Phi in the ...