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Background: During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Federation of Malaya, which became independent in 1957. Malaysia was formed in 1963 when the former British colonies of Singapore and the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo joined the Federation. The first several years of the country's history were marred by Indonesian efforts to control Malaysia, Philippine claims to Sabah, and Singapore's secession from the Federation in 1965.

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By Maarit
November 23rd 2009

Kuala Lumpurista Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

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Laiskana Kuala Lumpurissa. Petronas-yhtion tornit on katsastettu ja Suria-ostoskeskuksessa pyoritty. Muuten olenkin sitten ollut ihan super laiska. Olen meinaan paattanyt jattaa kaiken muun tammikuulle, kun palaan taas tanne. No majapaikka () sijaitsee kylla ihan kiinalaisen kaupunginosan ja Central Marketin kupeessa, joten niissakin olen kavaissyt. Ostosmahdollisuudet on meikalaiselle aina vahan huono juttu. Budjetti tahtoo ylittya, vaikka kuinka paattaisi olla ostamatta mitaan. Tanaankin pistin rahani menemaan aivan ihanaan hiuspantaan, jo [View Full Entry]

By robandsuse
November 23rd 2009

Sweatbox Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

It has been a strange couple of days. We set off alone late at night from a windy, rainy, Stansted airtport 30 mins late. The last flight of the day from a deserted place like a scene from 28 days later. The flight was boring, no films, no tv, but i managed to sleep 4-5 hrs, Suse slept much longer it seems. On landing we got through customs with relative ease and found ourselves confused by all the people, transport and 27 defgree heat at 9pm! After buying bus tickets for 2 quid each we changed our minds and forked out [View Full Entry]

By robandsuse
November 23rd 2009

Funky smells and fishy balls Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

Set off to Stansted at around dinnertime after yet more tears saying bye to family and friends. Everything went surprisingly smooth, checked in with no problems and though the flight was delayed it was only by 20mins. The 13hr flight seemed quite short to me as amazingly I managed to sleep for most of it. Not so for Rob who had a squeaky seat :p We got through passport control fine (and I had my first experience of a squat toilet -not a fan esp if you have long trousers on). It then all got a little crazy with bus touts [View Full Entry]

By AshleyNathan
November 17th 2009

Kuala Lumpur- a night in the airport Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

So a whole night in kuala lumpur airport, with its new bazillion dollar terminal that would hav been great but ofcourse travelling as a er traveller you fly airasia which has its own terminal resembling a huge empty warehouse with a couple plastic seats. great. flying in all you see is a house every now and then dotted between thousands of plantation palm trees, even continuing on the incredibly long bus from the airport to the main station they keep goig until bam apartment blocks and sky scrapers hit you like a brick wall. arriving in the city was strange its [View Full Entry]

By Rossi46
November 17th 2009

Penang - Kuala Lumpur Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur » Bukit Bintang

Georgetown

Photos: We woke to the 6:30 alarm! On Thursday 5th of November and took the 8am bus to Penang, stopping off at Ipoh bus station on the way. Kathy got talking to a woman serving in the shop and she said she’d just returned from England; “oh really?, where did you go”, said Kathy………”Coventry”..!. She had relatives in Coventry and Kenilworth. We left Ipoh and passed through more jungle, as impressive as anything in Borneo and arrived at Butterworth to ta [View Full Entry]

By 977
November 16th 2009

Pigmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

KL Tower

Courtesy of free internet at our guest house, I thought I'd crack out another blog, short and sweet, so they say. Sweet is definitely something Malaysia does well, with the average Malayman consuming 1kg a week, as their health campaigns studiously show. The food, the drinks, everything is full of sugar, but it still makes a nice enough change from Thai, which, while lovely, does bore after a month! I've also hit a bit more western food, and can't wait to jump into the Nando's mothership here. Good news everyone! It seems my temperamental camera is now back up and running, [View Full Entry]

By Jules1989
November 14th 2009

Livs billeder Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

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Livs billeder fra turen [View Full Entry]

By 977
November 14th 2009

A great day in Ao Nang, and touchdown in Luala Lumpur Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

Double BigMac

As it happens, Ao Nang delivers. If you read my fairly gargantuan last entry you'll know that I was running out of affection for Thai beaches, but one more turned out to be just the trick. We left Ko Lanta at 07:30 in a mini-bus, which was a good start, air conditioned, and the driver overtook almost continuously, only pausing for the car ferry to return to the mainland. I like overtaking, and this guy "doesn't afraid of anything". Oddly, despite pressing on through out the journey, he made time to stop off to pick up some live fish, and drop [View Full Entry]

By RJF777
October 31st 2009

Cruising at Flight Level 390 Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

From the 'office' in Vienna
a cold early arrival into VIE

I’m definitely getting into the swing of the airline lifestyle now. Nearly every pen I have has got some obscure hotel logo on it, and my notice board consists of many memos, reminders, phone numbers, etc scrawled on napkins from the galleys. My watch is always on the wrong time zone, my suitcase is never unpacked, my thighs are bruised from passenger’s elbows and I swear I have more currencies in my wallet than destinations we serve. I’m already at the stage of referring to the cities by their 3 letter codes and have almost forgotten my room number and which [View Full Entry]

By Jo and Mark Davies
October 30th 2009

First blog Asia » Malaysia » Wilayah Persekutuan » Kuala Lumpur

Hello everyone, Here is our first entry of our adventure!! Sorry its taken a while. We had a good flight to Siungapore I enjoyed the plane food as usual & Mark enjoyed watching 5 films and not talking to me!!!!! On arrival to a hot & steamy Singapore we soon realised we had over packed our bags, never mind!! It took us awhile to get used to the time difference but we had a good few days including as visit to the zoo which was ace! We then moved on to the Perhentian Islands, beautiful paradise, being in the sea was [View Full Entry]

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