Blogs from Cherating, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 3

Howdy! Updating you on the rest of our time in Borneo and beyond. It happened to be the Harvest Festival for many of the the tribes in Sabah so we took a bus to a small town called Tambunan to try to experience the real deal, rather than staying in the more tourist orientated Kota Kinabalu. On first impressions it was rather quiet and didn't look like too much was happening and we were beginning to regret coming away from everyone else. On further inspection we found an area with 6 longhouses which had been constructed especially for the event and lots of local folk. The party is traditionally to celebrate the harvesting of the paddy fields. There are dances, music and ceremonies to give thanks for the harvest and to keep evil spirits away from ... read more

A few days to escape the Shanghai winter...35 degrees in Malaysia :-) loved it! From the streets of Kuala Lumpur to cherating for some sun, sport & beach! Early morning wake up, short shopping stop over in KL and here we are…welcome to Cherating! Ok...it is nearly midnight but the pool is fantastic and drinks are waiting for us…so, eh you live only once! Quick room check in, change to swim suit and we were already heading to the pool and its bar where the rest of the group had already ordered some drinks for us, As you can guess, any party that starts by the pool, finish IN the pool and well it did…not that the guard was very happy about it … had a lot of fun and definitely the best way to chill ... read more

Firstly, I would like to thanks Kein for giving us a free voucher staying in Legend. But your delayed in taking us had disrupted our plan, how are you going to compensate our losses? Hahaha..we have yet to claim from you….hehehe =) Day 1: KL - Terengganu - Cherating I think it has been 10 years I have never been to east coast. According to some magazines, the east coast is claimed as the most beautiful coastline in Malaysia. My expectation was high before departure. Due to Kein’s unpunctual, we arrived late in Cherating. But along the way, we stopped over at Karak, a tiny town in Pahang state to take our brunch, a bad chicken rice at a Chinese kopitiam. Josh’s durian addict was suddenly erupted, due to that we stopped again to buy ... read more

helloooooo! so we've been in malaysia for... almost 2 weeks now, and its been awesome. most of the time here was spent on an island called palau tioman, which is just off the east coast of malaysia. we just got back to the mainland today. we were only going to spend 4 days there, but ended up spending 9 days instead. haha it was soo beautiful there, and really relaxed. we also met up with a girl named adele that we had been travelling with through new zeland, and we also saw her once in australia. she stayed with steve and me in this chalet just off the beach. her main purpose on the island was diving, and we had met some of her diving friends, and after talking to them for a couple days we ... read more

After a few days of cilling at Palau Tiomen we've headed north to Cherating, partly to break up the journey and secondly as me and Dave have heard that Cherating was worth a visit. Its certainly not what we expected or hoped for! Its basically a very small village with a few travellers, here mainly couples and germans and a few expats who seem to live here in the chalets full time. Its ok but quiet, a bit too quiet for me. We were orginally going to stop in a hostel called the Shadow of the moon at at half-past four. Tip to anyone who reads this: Don't!!! We arrived thinking it looked a bit spooky to be met by a Drunk bloke that looked like Billy Connelly and sounded like ozzy osborne and a bloke ... read more