We needed to do a visa run, and we hadn't been to Malaysia yet. So we found relatively cheap flights, took a week off from work, and headed out. The KL airport is probably the nicest airport I've ever been to. It won worldwide awards several years in a row, which I was quite impressed with, mostly because I had no idea such awards existed. I'm n...

After a very cold night bus we arrived in Kuala Lumpur at around 6am. We headed towards Chinatown where we had a reservation at a hotel (Hotel China Town Inn) and luckily they let us check in straight away. So we went straight back to sleep until 10am! Then it was time for a bit of an explore. We headed towards Times Square Mall and ended up spe...

i never quite made it to the twin towers as i was walking down the road every other person without exaduration would stop me to tell me that they liked my hair and one person became intreigued with me. nick was his name and started to tell me how his sister was moving to Manchester in just over a week or so to become a nurse and was asking for a...

World Cruise 2007 Tuesday, March 20 Port Kelang, gateway to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Excursion: Kuala Lumpur Highlights, 5 hours which included a 1 hour bus ride each way from the port to the city, $39 each. This is our second visit to Malaysia--we stopped on another island, in Kota Kinabalu, during the last cruise segment. I am still feeling real...

Hanoi was a busy, crazy, energetic place to say the least. A total assault on all of your senses. Our city tour was really interesting. We visited the Temple of Literature, a university hundreds of years old and Ho Chi Minh's museum which showed an interesting array of displays about the man they affectionately refer to as 'Uncle Ho'. You can vi...

Wie die Zeit vergeht... Eigentlich wollten wir KL erst am Ende besuchen, aber es wurde nun doch etwas frueher. Kuala Lumpur ist leider recht laermig, stinkig und very busy. Mit Bangkok kann sie zum Glueck nicht mithalten, aber fast. Dafuer entschaedigt KL mit einem netten Chinatown, einem kulinarisch feinen Litte India und den beeindruckenden Pe...

I left Borneo this morning to come to KL and wait for David to arrive before we head to Taman Negara and try to see some tapirs. When I was taking a taxi to my hotel, I saw the Brits from Bario, AGAIN. I told them if I see them in one more place I'm calling the cops. Random things: I noticed something funny here. Like in Singapore, people say "l...

1st "official" entry into our travel diary (or blog for you nerds out there). AS you're all probably aware we've been a bit slack in keeping this updated so I'm now gonna do my best to update in retrospect.... AS you can see, our first stop was to Malyasia, or more specifically, Kuala Lumpur (KL for those in the know)for 3 nights. Arrived here r...

After a relaxing day of doing basically nothing on Sunday, I've packed the bag and returned to Kuala Lumpur with Air Asia. This flight was a lot better than the last one... the plane was new, the flight departed on time, I got a window seat, and I had plenty of snacks/music to keep me company. Air Asia reminds me of SouthWest Airlines in the USA...

So, our jaunt onto Mainland Malaysia started in Kuala Lumpur, another huge Asian urban sprawl,but it was very easy to get around, and we found it all quite easy - Must be getting to be a professional at this now!! The airport is a whopping 75kms from the city! Didn't do a great deal in KL, watched England scrape past Austria in the footy, was qu...