Blogs from Malaysia, Asia - page 741

Undeterred by our failure to get on the cable car yesterday, we set off nice and early this morning in our teeny hire car to try again and were pleased to see sunny, dry skies. The road to the cable car is peppered with interesting scenery so every so often I would get Glynn to pull over somewhere and we'd go off for a little wander. We found long, golden sandy beaches far away from all the hotels and sheltered from the roadside by lines of palm trees with cattle grazing contentedly beneath. There were rice paddies, lighthouses, interesting bridges and a marina full of posh yachts waiting to be discovered, all of which I'm sure most tourists drive straight past. Eventually we found ourselves back at the cable car complex for the thrid time only ... read more

Langkawi offered us a little taste of paradise and some truly memorable moments - from watching the sun set on a golden sandy beach surrounded by tiny tropical islands to riding the world's longest single-cable cable car - it was all brilliant. There's an international airport on the island so I'm sure we'll be back!... read more

The day after climbing the mountain I took a flight to Kuching, the capitak of Sarawak. I hooked up with a couple of nutty girls and we went to Bako National park the next day which is home to the rare probiscus monkey. Think I've spelt that wrong! We had to travel by bus and a tyre blew out. Not to worry the driver said and we carried on. Then an hours river boat to the park where we saw monitor lizards on route. We did a 6k trek the first day and didn'r see a bloddy thing! After a night trying to fight off the mozzies we did an 8k trail the next day. Absolutely fantastic and although I couldn't get good close up's of these long nosed elepahant monkeys we had a great day. ... read more

Well, just thinking about leaving Malaysia to head to Thailand! Spent the last few nights in Penang...which has been interesting to say the least.....we arrived to be dropped off half way down the island in the middle of nowhere, to be informed that they had built a new bus station and to catch the bus over there.........which we managed fairly successfully! Got off at (yep you guessed it) a shopping centre - although not quite so well AC'd as we would have liked.....then hotfooted it through town to China town to find oursleves a hostel and got ourselves a base! Next challenge was naturally dinner..........meandering around the streets looking pretty lost, an Australian couple took pity on us and asked if we needed help.....and recommended a Chinese place just up the road (failing to mention that ... read more

Greetings from the tropical island of Langkawi in the very north-west of Malaysia! Our last day in the Cameron Highlands consisted of very little owing to a severe lack of sleep the night before. Mosquitoes invaded our room at the Cameronian Inn and poor Glynn came off the worst with in excess of 20 bites covering his body, 5 of which were on his face alone. I was a little luckier bite-wise with only about 6 or 7 to call my own but neither of us slept all night. Needless to say that the notion of a jungle walk to end our time in the mountains wasn't a wise one. We were both grumpy and irritable and to top it off, we had run out of afterbite! The Cameronian Inn will go down as one of ... read more