Swiss-Garden Spa(Dlx Seavw Rm) Pahang

... Rock Cafe (sorry Diane, but they did taste good!)

That day it was a mixture of sun and showers which has been quite common for our time in Asia.

2nd Day
Walked around another area but spent sometime using the hotel's pool, steam, sauna and jacuzzi.
That evening Julia phoned using a phone card she had bought as the cost of BT calls is very high.

Next Day - Moved onto Bali
Taxi to airport and took Air Asia flight to Bali costing approx ...

... something is biting be .. and looked down and lifted my sock and Ewwwww get it off me ... a leech!!!! Now Susie got bitten loads yesterday and said she never felt a thing .. so how come i felt it .. did i get a novice leech??? one who had run out of anesthetic??? Anyway i have taken a pic ... and yes when i get to a decent pc .. you can all see my leech bite!!!

bye for now

c xxx

... und laut genug um sie erkennen. Insgesamt beschlossen wir aber das naechste Mal nur noch mit Guide in den Dschungel zu gehen, weil dieser dann doch mehr sieht als wir "Grossstadtbewohner".

Die Abreise stellte sich dann auch schwierig dar weil gerade der muslimische Fastenmonat Ramadhan vorbei war und alle feierten. Die Stimmung war so aehnlich wie bei uns am 25. Dezember - also nix hat offen und keiner weiss welcher Bus faehrt.

... exhilarating fall into the water. After a very basic dinner on another floating restaurant, we went off on a night hike (with torches) to spot insects, frogs, iguanas etc.
The next morning (after an excrutiatingly awful breakfast) we had the greatest challenge - the canopy walk and the trek up the mountain.....in the tropical heat. The rope bridge was wonderful, but our guide was loathe to take us on the trek (either he fancied ...

... donc au plus grand parc du pays, une jungle de 2 fois la taille du Luxembourg et vierge de tout incendie et traces néfastes de l’Homme depuis 130 million d’année ! Ce n’est pas extraordinaire ?
Nous voulons faire un treck de 3 jours mais on se rend vite compte qu’il n’y a réellement qu’un seul sentier de randonnée nécessitant un guide (ce trajet vendu pour 2 ou 3 jours de marche peut ce faire en ...

... was an interesting venure, not as lively as the rest of SE however. For me it was more of a casaual experiance of exploring the colonial and local side to life and experiancing a nearly full developed SE country; which was, a far cry from the countries I had just been travelling through and overall a very different experiance.

... huge trees (with huge overground roots)- including one that had recently uprooted - you could see the entire bottom of it - a huge bank of soil, massive ferns, lots of butterflies, several termite nests (you could hear them working away - it sounded a little like Rice Krispies when you first put the milk in!), amber sap dripping out of a tree (apparently some of it tastes like Coke!), colourful worms hanging down on threads in the middle of the path and even wild boar ...

... Walk" up the river. We hiked up to a platform which led to a series of suspension bridges hung between treetop platforms more than 100 feet off the ground. As you walked, the suspension bridge would bounce and sway high above the forest floor. To keep it from bouncing too badly, we tried to tread softly and walk like cats. The entire walk was nearly a kilometer long. Though there wasn't much to see at treetop level, it was still quite an ...

... 19.30 Uhr noch Zeit war, genossen wir **st mal eine Dusche und frische Klamotten. Fu** den Abend stand noch ein Night Walk im Dschungel auf dem Programm, ab** ein aufziehendes Gewitt** machte uns einen Strich durch die Rechnung. So spielten wir nach dem ueb**aus leck**en Abendessen (Aub**ginen Curry, gegrilltem Fisch, Tom Yum Suppe und Kohlgemuese mit Reis) noch ein paar Runden ******** und unt**hielten uns mit den 3 and**en Gaesten, Maedels aus Singapore. Am Dienstag ...

... and scenic and we soon arrived in Kuala Tahan, where we found a lovely room with a resident cat. We went to the park headquarters to enquire about jungle treks but they were completely useless and told us nothing, except that there were "no mosquitoes in the jungle". I write this now still itching from the 30 or so mosquito bites I got in the 3 days we were in Taman Negara. We signed up for a night safari that night. We went in a 4x4 in the dark (with a torch) into the park ...