Blogs from Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 70

I flew into Singapore after a fairly boring few days in Brisbane. Once you've visited the 30,000 museums and galleries, theres not a lot else you can do for free, I have memorised the Brisbane city layout now though, so if I come back with a work visa, I can always go for a job as a cab driver. Singapore! I arrived at about 9pm, and my airport pickup didn't come to pick me up, which was fine though, as it gave me the chance to use the Singapore public transport system, which is pretty damn good. The trains arrive on time, and they are spotless, in 4 days of using trains every day, only 1 smelt like urine. So I jumped on the train and headed to Little India. I wasn't able to get ... read more

The Cameron Highlands are about 1800 m above sea level so it's always cool and therefore a welcome relief from the heat of KL. Getting there though requires a drive up narrow roads with hairpin bends. Not for those who suffer from car-sickness. Add to that the crazy drivers (esp those driving 4WDs) who overtake when it's not really safe to do so makes the drive up quite scary. It was enough to bring out a liberal flow of expletives from Sean against those reckless drivers. Perhaps Sean was not in the best of moods as we had been in a car with no air-conditioning. Think of a sauna on wheels and you'll get the picture. It was raining 2 of 3 days we were there but we were still able to appreciate the beauty of ... read more

Hellooo, we are kind of swimming away at the moment so it's perfect timing to update our blog.....we've already attempted updating our blog again once but it is getting to be a bit of a chore.....anyway we're stuck in the hotel at the moment while god flushes the toilet. Ok, here goes...After the Cameron highlands we headed south to Kuala Lumpur...we stopped in the china town part that had a really good market....original copy Rolex's for only 'cheap cheap'...we went to see the twin towers and we were lucky enough to get tickets to go up to the sky bridge. Like every big city K.L. has got a shopping centre which was perfectly airconditioned and was where we seemed to spend most of our time, we even had a few trips to the cinema. The bus ... read more

Nasi Lemak makes a great breakfast. Coconut rice, chilli sauce and crunchy fish make an unlikely culinary delight, especially with the ubiquitous coffee (from a bag) with slug of condensed milk. After brekky it was time to head out for another days action packed diving. First stop was Fan canyon, and the second was around Soyah island. Two very good dives, but somewhat overshadowed by the night dive which was SPECTACULAR. It was the same site as yesterdays afternoon dive, but in the dark. The early part of the dive was nice, but pretty standard. The real greatness came tho when we headed across to the house reef, turned out lights out and started kicking around. A little like I experienced in Australia the water gave off bioluminescence when disturbed. Unlike in Australia this time I ... read more

Hey All, So we've been really busy the last week or so. Taman Negara is a national park that's like 4000 square km of jungle. There's all kind of wild animals there like elephants and tigers. We didn't see any of them though cause you have to do over night treks and stay in these places called hides which are basically like caves with beds and rats and insects all over the place and even after all that horrible stuff you only might see some animals. So I was like no way!! To get there we took one of those longboats through the middle of the jungle for 3 hours. It was pretty cool cause we saw water buffalo and stuff but by the end of it our asses were broken!!! We ended up staying in ... read more