Blogs from Pulau Tioman, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 4

Malaysia with no doubt surprised me specially after sleeping between buses & trains during 3 days coming all the way from the little hill tribe village in the North of Thailand where i was living & studying massage to this multi-cultural overwhelming city populated by Malays, Chinese & Indians to say the least because there's many many more ethnicities that undoubtedly add up to the flavor of this country...compared to the other countries i visited in South East Asia, it somehow felt that this place remained quite undiscovered and that the majority of travelers (including myself) used it only as a quick stop over to jump to the next destination.... Anyways, there is about 1.5 million people living here, first thing that stroke me when entering the city on the bus was the huge architectural monuments ... read more

Hej alle laesere.. Meget har vi oplevet siden vi sidst skrev, hvilket da ogsaa er aarsagen til at vi ikke har haft tid til at finde et sted med internet.. Vi forlod for en uge siden Borneo efter 3 fantastiske uger, for at skifte rammerne fuldstaendigt. Vi tog nemlig til Singapore. En storby af kaliber, der foerte tankerne tilbage til Hong Kong.. Singapore, var for det foerste meget ren med en hel del reglsaet vedroerende offentlig gebaerden.. At spise eller i metroen medfoerer for eksempel en boede paa ca. 2000 kr.. Det lod vi saa vaer med.. Vi kunne heller ikke krydse vejen hvis der var roedt lys. Det lyder muligvis indlysende, men i Malaysia er vi blevet vant til at krydse selv 4-sporede veje, hvis der ingen biler er. Praecis som de lokale. Tilbage til ... read more

Being a tropical island, Tioman has its fair share of scary, fascinating and cute creatures. We had only been on the island a matter of hours before we turned a corner and were face to face with a monitor lizard. Unlike the the cute little 10cm geckos that you usually find on holiday, monitor lizards are carnivorous beasts that can reach up to 7 feet long and it was quite a shock to come face to face with one. Fortunately, they are normally pretty scared of humans and this one did scuttle away when it saw us. Once we had done some exploring of Salang we found the river where the lizards live, which is where we met Jez and Faye. They had managed to get themselves a chalet too, they weren't sharing with the lizards. ... read more

After that brief city break, we thought it'd be cool to hop on some proper island (Sentosa doesn't count) and so we decided to go to Tioman - an island on the east coast of Malaysia sitting in the South China Sea and looking like a sleeping dragon. There is actually a legend attached to that island saying that once, a Chinese dragon princess was flying to her prince in Singapore. She stopped to have a rest in those warm waters and ended up loving the area to the point she decided to cut the journey short and take a form of an island. Not sure what the Singaporean price had to say about the fact the princess preferred to turn into an island rather than see him but that didn't seem to be included in ... read more

Kaere alle Det er vist ved at vaere en hel uge siden vi skrev sidst, saa nu faar i lige en opadatering. I sidste uge var vi som foer skrevet i Kuching. Loerdag tog vi til Kubah nationalpark for at vandre en tur i regnskoven og bade i vandfald. Det var en spaendende oplevelse at gaa rundt i den meget snoerklede, varme og regnfulde skov. Dorte var gennembloedt af sved da vi var naet halvvejs. Efter to timer naaede vi vandfaldet og selvom det stod ned i staenger skulle der selvfoelgelig bades. Soendag var vi paa marked hvor man kunne faa alt fra hammerhajer over plukkede kyllinger med hoved til den saedvanlige souvenir. Om aftenen var i en Anglikansk kirke. Gudstjenesten mindede meget om vores hoejmesse i DK, men praedikenen var paa malay-engelsk saa Dorte fattede ... read more