Blogs from Melaka, Malaysia, Asia - page 28

05/10/07 We arrived portside in Kuala Besut, still in one piece, although both looking rather wind-swept on the barnet front (personally I was not looking totally un-'There's Something About Mary'-esque!!). We proceeded past the throng of taxi drivers and headed for the bus terminal to check the times for our trip to Kuala Lumpur. We already had it in our minds to stay here for 1 night and head to KL early tomorrow so we could catch up on some interneting (nearly 3 quid an hour on the Islands, 75 pence an hour here), and make sure we got to KL at a reasonable time. We found the bus left at 9 tomorrow so decision made, and we headed off to find an internet cafe, and a guest house. We found both in no time, and ... read more

Fun and games this morning trying to access our safety deposit box. The manager took us into a little back room and we tried to open the box with our key and his. He clearly didb't know how to use the keys and left us on our own in the safe room for about ten minutes. We stood around chatting and joking for a while and thinking about how we could do a massive heist, but eventually went to look for him. Another hotelier was rather startled when we appeared out of the safe room and promptly helped us. Headed in to town via another route - mainly market area. Steve managed to purchase a roti cup to disperse the batter onto the hot plate - looks like a massive swirl of batter very thinly spread ... read more

After jumping on a public bus we traveled from KL to Melaka, only a couple of hours away. This place has lots of colonial history Arriving at the bus station in Melaka we were shown some pictures of a really nice hostel and decided to go and have a look and caught a local bus to the hostel. The place were we stayed was really unique and had a traditional living room which consisted of a wooden floor and seats on the floor. We were given two rooms to chose from, which was lucky as this place is usually very popular and difficult to get a room. We chose a cosy room up in the loft. We decided to have a wonder and took a tour around the naval museum - Melaka used to be a ... read more

La Malaysie: Un pays bien agréable et la découverte du snorkeling Voici le lien de mes photos de la Malaysie http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15352&l=a4a8f&id=524278956 Je suis donc partie de la Birmanie le 26 septembre, jour où les manifestations sont malheureusement devenues très violentes et j’ai pu le sentir dans le taxi qui m’amenait à l’aéroport car les militaires rodaient autours de la ville avec leurs armes… J’avais espéré que cela n’allait pas trop dégénérer… Arrivée à Bangkok, j’ai donc pris directement le train pour rejoindre la frontière malaysienne car ça sera la première fois que je traverse la frontière en train au lieu du bus et surtout que je ne voulais pas passer un jour de plus à Bangkok. Le train était fort comfortable et bien desservi. Malheureusement, j’étais un peu malade (fièvre et crampe à l’estomac) et ... read more

Matkalla Kuala Lumpurin lentokentältä Singaporeen piipahdimme vanhassa hollantilais/portugalilais/kiinalais/malesialaisessa Melakan kaupungissa, joka vilisi turisteja ihan toiseen malliin Sumatraan ja Borneoon verrattuna.... read more