Equatorial Kuala Lumpur

... . Beetje een afgang, hoor ;-) Na even wachten en behoorlijk wat gedoe zaten we in het busje naar hotel Equatorial Bangi (niet echt in Kuala Lumpur dus maar in Bangi). Beetje krakkemikkig busje, zonder gordels ook, maar terwijl ik nog zat te bedenken wat ...

... , a jo magas lakoepuletek mellett. Mi a bevezeto uton olyan hatalmas dugot, mint mondjuk Bangkokban van, nem lattunk. A KL Central Kuala Lumpur legnagyobb kozponti csomopontja, ide erkezik a KLIA Ekspress, KLIA Transit, van megalloja a KTM Komuternek, a ...

... see the Polar Express. I met two different Malaysian Santa Clauses and we bought our first Christmas presents - toys for orphans in Kuala Lumpur. Aren't we good! That night we gate-crashed a big company's Christmas party in a nightclub in downtown KL. ...

... domestic air tickets in advance during the "tourist season" of August. Hotel Hunt, Crazy Rainfall and B.B. Nightlife We landed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 7 am with drowsy eyes. The airport is massive and dazzling; no wonder we were lost for ...

... he comido en un par de japoneses, en uno casi de todo menos sushi (el Kampachi en el hotel Equatorial, rankeado #46 sobre 747 restaurants de Kuala Lumpur aunque tampoco haya para tanto, el del pastizal) y en uno que encontre por casualidad en el ...

Amy didn't arrive until late in the evening, so Jamie and I spent our day at the KLCC shopping centre in Kuala Lumpur (KL) even though the prices were the same as England so we couldn't buy anything! It was yet another impressive Asian 6 story complex ...

... shore and the town of Mersing where tomorrow we will catch a ferry to Palau (island) Tioman for some diving and a taste of the equatorial jungle. We spent the rest of the day in KL attending to other logistics, stopping at a street side vendor en route to ...

... temples, others heading to the caves and many just shopping. There is little shade, the clouds are in retreat and now a near equatorial sun is beating down on me. The trip to this land of heat and self-inflicted injury was at least familiar: fighting, ...

We landed at the LCCT around 8:30am - after a 1km-odd walk from the plane to the airport (!) we got through all the formalities very easily and were on the Air Asia Skybus in an hour or so. Got to the hotel another hour later but we had to wait until 2pm ...

Got in to KL at lunch time and drove an hour into the city through lovely mountainy rainforest style scenery. The hotel was in the golden triangle and stayed on the 14th floor witha view of the Petronas towers. Very cool. Went to the fancy shopping mall ...

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... . Malaysia is made up of 14 states. There were 13 originally plus Singapore until they split and then they invented the state that Kuala Lumpur sits in. Each State has a Sultan who rules that states. They are royal born and it passes down the patriarchal ...

... found a cute little hotel in China-Town where we're going to spend a few nights before heading up to the big city; "Kuala Lumpur" (home of the worlds largest towers). Anyways since being here, we've done some shopping. Everything is much cheaper here, ...

... to pack for the next chapter of our travels and a trip 'down under'. Singapore proved to be a surprise packet. We'd expected Kuala Lumpur to be a lot more interesting but Singapore outscored KL in every way. It was clean, traffic-free, had excellent ...

... where you can see old godown (river warehouses), fish markets and traditional kampung (village houses.) We leave on Tuesday morning for Kuala Lumpur and have decided to then head into the Cameron Highlands, one of the best known hill stations in one of ...

After getting back to the peninsula, I worked my way down from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.  I actually stayed in Johor Bahru, which is the malaysian city just across the bridge from Singapore - it was far cheaper, and it made crossing the border into ...

... hell for not doing  more. Their own little 'Katrina/FEMA disaster' unfolding. We had to eat the cost of two tickets from Kuala Lumpur...but only U$200. The AMARC conf was postponed to December, but I would not be surprised if it is pushed back to ...

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