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Itchy feet (literally) & ready to move on
... we all feel excited. After queuing for 20 minutes, we buy our ticket and head towards the platform. The track is so steep that the train is actually built at a 45 degree angle. The platform is a series of steps and we clamber up to get a good spot at the front of the train, right beside the driver. The kids are thrilled, excitement making them visibly shake :-) The ride up the mountainside is a lot faster than I was expecting, my ears popping as we speed up the track. As ...
Penang
... de Chinatown plein de recoins charmants, un ancien quartier colonial avec de beaux bâtiments blancs, un quartier de Little India grouillant de vie et, comme toute grande ville, de grands buildings à ...
Auf den Spuren von Hesse, May & Vorzeitreptilien
... 8220; gewählt – und das ganz sicher nicht zu unrecht, auch wenn unser Guide, eine absolut charmante, witzige aus Penang stammende Dame, etwas anderes behauptet (Wortlaut: Im Vergleich zu den anderen Mansions ist das so, als würde man eine Ente mit einem Elefanten gleichsetzen). Das blaue Anwesen war schon von außen ein echter Hingucker. Und von innen – ja, wir waren überwältigt. Der Bauherr – eben jener Cheong Fatt Tze, der es vom armen chinesischen Jungen ...
September the 11th
Met some lovely, interesting and amazing traveller folk over the passed 2 days. Also a really lovely local man who showed me around and wants to help me buy uni stuff, like books. We both know I'd be ripped off.
This is a text message from a trusted member of university staff who's trying to rip me off again:
"Hi.. U hv to buy insurance due to visa endorsement ...plz bring along RM320 later for insurance"
IS THIS A JOKE?! £64? ...
Crazy monkeys 'n stuff
... us some information. We could do two different routes. One leading to tuttle bay where you could see small tuttles? After the woman showed us some pictures I realised she meant turtles. Or we could take the route leading to "monkey beach"
Of course we went for the monkey route. Already after about 10 steps we saw a monkey sitting on the path. We followed the monkey until it jumped up a tree. In the tree there were several more monkeys who totally didn't mind ...
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