Blogs from Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia, Asia - page 14

Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, has about 2 million people and is also the biggest city in Malaysia. We arrived very early this morning, after a 9pm flight from the Hong Kong Airport. The flight was 3.5 hours long! Luckily, the time flew by...I guess we've become used to long journeys by now. I wonder what driving for a few hours will feel like again in the States. Arriving at our hostel (Red Palm) by taxi at 2:30am meant that all we did was get a room key and immediately fall asleep. Well, tried to. The World Cup was playing at the restaurant next door, so sleeping at first was a little difficult with all the crazy cheering. Kuala Lumpur is a difficult city to describe. It's the most culturally diverse city we've visited ... read more

La capital de Malasia es Kuala Lumpur es una ciudad muy desarrollada y parece mucho a la ciudad de Toronto, desmasiada gente y mucha modernidad, personalmente prefiero mas la naturaleza que los edificios, pero creo que tdo depende de gustos, creo que a Carolina le habria encantado estar aqui ya que hay mucha moda y actividades , restaurantes para jovenes de su edad... Cuando fuimos a la Mezquita me dijeron que debia cubrirme bien para entrar asi que me dieron una bata y un manto para mi pelo, para entrar en la parte donde oran, se debe sacar los zapatos. Tambien fuimos a un restorante local, y nos pegamos los agachaditos, ojala no nos haga mal el estomago, hay mucha comida de la india y de china, es muy rica pero ya me estoy cansando de ... read more

Melakka Sadly, we left wonderful Singapore and got a bus to Melakka on the West coast of Malaysia, about 2 hours from Singapore. We stayed in traditional and atmospheric Chinatown in a very cool guesthouse (Jalan Jalan) that was on a street filled with lovely artsy shops (dangerous). We had a nice time wandering around the historic town centre, checking out Dutch Square, old Portugese churches and canals. We sampled the famous Melakka Pineapple Tarts (goood) and spent ages browsing the colourful night market in Chinatown. We went to the Museum of Malay People, Kites and Beauty (sounded curiously interesting) but it turned out to be a bit of a disappointment (you could get better information from wikipedia!!). We ended up buying some amazing and very reasonably priced art and pottery from a couple of local ... read more

wat valt er te vertellen als je een week op een eiland bent geweest? niet zo heel veel eigenlijk behalve dat we (lees Anka) nog bruiner zijn geworden. Dit was de tweede keer dat we een bezoek gebracht hadden aan Pulau Tioman en er niets veranderd sinds de eerste keer (2008) dat wij het eiland bezochten. (volgens een Duitser naast ons is er niets veranderd sinds de laatste keer dat hij hier was in 1985) Tioman is tropisch, dus warm en kleffig en heeft een eigen vliegveld en haven. Rondom het eiland ligt er koraal en kan er gedoken en gesnorkeld worden. Tioman is wat rustiger en idyllischer dan Perhentian omdat het eenvoudig en erg mooi is, lokale mensen wonen hier en vaak is hun huis gekoppeld aan een aantal chalets die op of net achter ... read more

After the ritual slamming of Thailand in my last entry I feel I should iterate that we went there at the wrong point of our trip and didn't plan our travels there particularly well. Would that we would have headed up North and got a bit more of a feel of the character of the place. It should also be noted that this was the first place we saw sharks and it will thus always have a very special place in our hearts. Anyway, I have resolved to write no more blog entries whilst hungover from taking a dram too many of the local 'whiskey' (a loose term that many of the countries we've visited seem to adopt for various brown liquids of high alcoholic volume). As of writing this, I'm mainlining The Orb ('Outlands') and ... read more