Blogs from Malaysia, Asia - page 11

After five mostly sunny days in Penang, Linda and I awoke to the sound of pouring rain on Thursday (August 1st) to face the eight-hour bus ride to Melaka. With the forest-clad spine of mountains in Penang's interior buried under a thick blanket of clouds, we crossed back over to the mainland via the 24km Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Bridge – which has a name almost as long as the bridge itself! As the only passengers left on the bus (which was actually more like a luxury coach, with fully-reclining seats that enabled Linda to sleep comfortably for most of the journey) we then spent our forty-minute stopover in Kuala Lumpur at an outdoor canteen beside the intercity bus terminal, where we were the only non-Malaysians (and Linda the only female!) amongst the motley crew ... read more

When you decide to take a holiday trip with the family in Johor Bahru, you need to look for a decent, affordable, family-oriented a place to stay which can make your experience a pleasant and memorable one. You need to find a place which is close to the famous Johor attractions such as Danga bay, Hello Kitty Town, JB City, Legoland etc. These family hotels in Johor Bahru that may interest if you are planning to spend some quality time there with your loved ones. Some of these hotels offer spacious kid’s rooms, swimming pools and other excellent facilities. So let’s check them out. #1 D Elegance Hotel If you are looking for a budget hotel that is not too far away from Legoland, you can look for D Elegance Hotel which is merely 6 km ... read more

Apart from a couple of trips to Turkey and six confusing hours in Bangkok - about which I remember very little other than getting hopelessly lost and tasting some sort of unidentifiable fruit - I'd never spent any time in Asia, much less the classic backpacker destination of Southeast Asia. But since Linda and I were in desperate need of a travel fix without wanting to spend too much money, we decided to split the difference between the two great backpacking meccas of Bali and Thailand and instead go somewhere ever-so-slightly off the beaten track: Malaysia. And since we would be flying into the country's capital city, Kuala Lumpur, and I had always wanted to see the Petronas Towers close-up since first seeing a picture of them twenty-odd years ago, it was only natural that we ... read more

V malajzii nesmela chybat klasicka zastavka vo fajn kuala lumpur. Odtial som pokracoval preskumat dalsiu cast bornea. To nesklamalo ale ani neprekvapilo. V buducnosti by som sa sem vratil a kukol jaskynu fairy a np gading. Sibu a miri je vraj slabucke. Taktiez np mulu. KUALA LUMPUR Hodnotie ako vzdy, super mesto na relax kde je vsetko k dispozicii co clovek potrebuje k zivotu. Ubytko Stepp inn too - 2dorm, share sprcha, ac, hot water. Tu som mal tri zastavky a vzdy to slo dole. Fajn ubytko na zabavu, nahodny sex je tu skoro povinnost. Neskor zistene, ze na recepcii pracuju i kurvy (cestovatelky co si prilepsuju). V buducnosti by som sem asi uz nesiel, bo uz tu boli zvacsa len zamestnanci (kazdu chvilu sa menili). Ale zas na noc by som to tu okusil. Cena ... read more

V noci a nadranom ma zobudili trtkajuci ludia. Nieco po 930 vykopanie sa z ubytka a tak ako vzdy ranajky v zapadnutej ulicke, masaz noh pod komixovym muzeom a oddych v bambusovom domceku. To posledne sa vsak nekonalo. V parku kopa ludi s detmi. Vacsinu cinania. Vsetky 4domceky obsadene. Koncim teda v jednom altanku. Free wifi uz neni, uz je spoplatnene, co mi skrizilo trochu plany. Co som sledoval tak par parov s detmi tu malo najatene zvacsa cinske opatrovatelky deti. Po relaxe, obed vyrieseny v cinskom food courte oproti mhd bus stanici. V beef polievke bolo minimum masa, som cakal viacej. Ubytko vyprazdnene. Trochu spanku, po ktorom pada rozhodnutie, ze kupim novy telefon. Smer western union v kotaraya mall. Odtial este pomotanie sa po okoli. V jednej ulicke zdarma rozdavali oblecenie. Takze v kl sa ... read more