Theme Park Genting Highlands

... special guest from home arrives for a 2 week holiday in Indonesia (Bali/Lombok/Gili Isles) and I can't wait - so exicted!!<br><br>Had a FAB time in Malaysia... such a nice contrast from the other countries I've visited... a bit of normality among chaos.... different cultures..... calm and organised places and systems, friendly, helpful people... a generally laid-back, easy, beautiful country... caught up with old friends... made some great new friends.... can't ask for much more in 2 weeks!<br><br><br>

... in KL. Tiger beer has been consumed whilst snacking on Duck Hokkien noodles, or Chilli Squid and we have found that the local version of coffee (strong percolated coffee with sweetened condensed milk) is far more satisfying. We are off to the Lake Gardens today. More updates soon. See Cait's picture of the view from our Hotel. We are right in the heart of the bar district wear young up and coming Malays party til the small hours.

... enjoy our food with tags banging against our noses. We then realised that we were eating dinner in a furniture showroom. It transpired that even the kitchen units and the cooker were for sale! <br><br>We were still feeling pretty jaded with big cities at this point, and were also getting rather fed up with the constant wet weather in Malaysia, so as soon as we had sorted out our visas for Indonesia and had booked our flights to Bali, we left KL after 3 days.

... last two<br>months. They gave me a lot of good advice about southeast asia and India.<br>Also, I turned them on to the U.S., especially areas around the western US<br>which they were looking to travel to in the next couple years. I did some<br>writing, dozed a little, and enjoyed the jungle lanscaped of thick trees,<br>palms, flowers, and mountains that this river winded through. We eventually<br>came up to a the floating barges that the boat docked up to, and ...

... exhibits were pretty poor, though, and were badly photocopied images that were hard to see and read. <br><br><br>As you ascended each floor, the AC seemed to get lower and lower until the third floor where it was nonexistant and you were sweating just standing reading. The other floors didn't really have too much to offer. One area focused on the different kites that were made and flown around and yet another focused on tops and showed examples of tops that were used in a very ...

... travel timeline we decided to leave the following morning to get to the other "higher priority" places. We had already decided to stay on the Peninsula of Malaysia instead of going to Borneo, a large island off the Eastern coast. This was not an easy decision since Borneo (a spectacular rainforest and the only natural habitat to Orangutans!) is supposed to be amazing but due to time, cost and Clint being sick we decided to explore the beauty of the ...

... has two of them!! Its supposed to be true that everyone in the world has a twin... well I found my sisters; she is from Hong Kong and looks so much like my sister Dolo apart from the chinese eyes. The eyes nearly popped out of my head when Ruairi pointed her out to me, so freaky!! We got to play the money wheel in the Hotel casino and won 50 rinngit in one single bet. At a training ...

... driving range. Fact File: Country: Malaysia Population: 4751 Languages: English, Tamil, Chinese, Malay Climate: Coastal climate Official Currency: Malaysia Ringgit (RM); 1 RM = 11.454 Indian Rupee = 0.2632 US $ = 0.2173 Euro (subject to change). Location: This resort is located at a few kilometers distance from Kuala Lumpur. Getting There: There are eighteen scheduled services that leave daily from the Pudu Raya Bus Terminal in Kuala Lumpur. The Resort also runs a coach ...

... place and I must say I was completely disappointed. Most of the stuff is tacky as hell and like all flea market varieties; I guess one needs to really dig hard to find good stuff. I neither have the patience of a true blue shopper nor the inclination to dig hard. So I walked around a little bit, bought a couple of random souvenirs and headed back to the designated waiting point for the group. Then began the God Almighty wait. Although ...

Tuesdays are so terrifically dull in school. My writing was much better, tho. Afternoon crept by. In the evening, no television or games. We just sat around and said very little. I don't really remember reading. While watching football matches on telly, we had pistachio ice cream and bananas. Ymmm. Searched upstairs for atlas or other books, but in vain. Found rats instead.