Impiana Cherating Resort Pahang

... got back into our van and kept heading down the coast to Kuantan. We stopped along the way at a roadside outdoor/open air restaurant (very common in Malaysia). We, the Malaysians I was with, ordered a feast food that I would never know to order. It seemed like plate after plate of stuff was coming out. We had this kind of local fish (the guys weren't sure what kind exactly, but it came out of the ocean across the ...

... blog we mentioned the 6 ft lizards (no Ray you don't need to lie on the floor again) and the frog in the shoe......well this town has a dog.............no shock there you say.........well this dogs best friend is a monkey and they roam around town together all day, play fighting and the monkey rides on the dogs back (couldn't get my camera out quick enough for that one).<br> <br>We are staying in another little bungalow, set ...

... imagine that a look at the conditions of the kitchen would turn some people off, but the way I see it is if these people can eat here then I should be fine too. And if I'm not then hopefully I'll be immune to whatever made me sick the next time around. The people of this place were interesting. The state/province of Malaysia we were in is almost all Muslim. Men were dressed in long robes with the hats or a combo of a long skirt and longsleeve arab (thats ...

... la Sécu pour avoir le privilège de monter sur leurs dos et faire un tour (quand je dis un tour, je parle bien de tourner sur un cercle de 10m de diamètre !) en somme, nous sommes partis avant la fin du « show » qui consistait à la baignade du touriste avec un éléphant ! <br><br>Le but de ce centre est louable mais cette version « cirque » lui fait perdre tout intérêt. Nous avons pris quelques photos mais il ne fallait pas nous en demander plus&#8230;<br>

... but I successfully avoided them. After 2 hours I left my friend by herself (which was apparently a good idea, because soon after I left her the jungle became muddier, so she had to slow down and got beaten by leaches a lot) and returned. It was great, I was a little tired, had some adrenalin rush by being alone in the jungle (although at first sight the jungle looks just like any other wood in Slovenia...), and did a good thing for myself (some ...

... through rocks and logs and up trees, a skunk, blue ferns, several monkeys, six-foot monitor lizards, and bats diving at mosquitoes next to our faces. Also, it rained on our return trip and it completely transformed the jungle. Different smells, different sounds, and the sun pouring in through the thick, humid jungle mist created different golden colors. Despite the beauty, tragedy ...

... to slow me down to stop the Bends, me just wanting fresh air. We got to the surface &amp; no harm was done apart from feeling like my lungs &amp; ribs had been crushed.. I almost collapsed, but kept going, got back onto the boat, back to the mainland &amp; thanked my ...

... really likes) is a little monkey kept in a cage that wears a diaper and drinks milk out of a baby bottle! It's outside of this really cool shop that has furniture made out of driftwood ...

... than smiley guest house owners! I took a walk along the beach for the second time in two days and started to feel a bit downbeat. I made the phone call back to the doc at Kuantan and got the bad news I was fearing. Yellow Fever vaccinations are only available in Kuala Lumpur! I was pretty much resigned to a trip back to the capital before I made the call so I took it in my stride and thanked the doctor for ...

... to the restaurant down the street, where we indulged in nasi goreng USA -- "USA Fried Rice"(I'm not making this up). Fauzi has a really fantastic family - a charming wife and a beautiful baby girl who puts down noodles and fried egg with passion. I really lucked out to have them as my hosts. It's my first night in my new home, and I couldn't be more excited to settle into a new, if temporary, life here. It's a far cry from new years past, but I'm feeling good. Happy ...