Blogs from Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia, Asia - page 2

Firstly I'm in the most annoying, headache inducing place in the whole of Malaysia, possibly the whole of Asia, which up until now has been very tranquil and zen. The internet cafe is also some sort of computer game cafe, full of adolescent boys playing war games - feel like I'm in about 3 different war zones at once. Took an overnight bus here, wasn't too bad, 10 hours though and I put my trousers on backwards then couldn't change them round. Luckily they weren't a pair of jeans or anything, else that would really be retarted, they were sort of the Malaysian equivalent of tracksuit bottoms, a bit like harem pants which I hear are all the rage at home but seeing as I'm unaware of what is and isn't cool anymore I wouldn't know. ... read more

Nous qui étions tellement excité de voir des singes a Singapore, il faut croire que l'on va probablement s'habituer très vite à en voir partout en Malaisie. Etant dans ce pays depuis une dizaine de jours, nous en avons déjà vus des tonnes! Et pas seulement dans la jungle, les petits coquins se faufilent jusque dans les restaurants pour allez faire leur épicerie! Très mignon...jusqu'à ce qu'ils s'approchent de vous en dévisageant voracemment votre repas! Autre animal très présent ici mais un peu moins rigolo, le varant. C'est un TRES gros lézard, qui fait partie de la famille du dragon de Komodo, le plus gros lézard du monde. Impréssionnant à voir...pourtant Véro l'aime bien car il mange toutes les autres bibittes qui lui plaisent moins! Mais rassurez-vous, la Malaisie n'est pas uniquement un pays de jungles, ... read more

From the Perhentian Islands we took a boat back to the mainland and from there we took a a very packed public bus to Kuala Terengganu. We didn't have much planned for our time there but I hoped that we would get to visit Kenyir lake- the largest man made lake in Asia. We checked into a mediocre hostel and enjoyed our first McDonald's in a long time! Malaysia is a predominantly Muslim country and this was more evident in Kuala Terengganu (and the journey there) than it had been on the islands. Pork was off the menus and the women were dressed traditionally and covered their heads. We followed suit as much as the heat would permit us to! The town itself is actually very large and turned out to have a lot to do ... read more

- right into an overhead post. I was pretty dizzy for the next few seconds and a little confused. Jen got me to sit down and when some poor old Malay guy came to see what had happened I started shouting at him: "Yes? Do you see anything interesting?". She sprayed so much disinfectant on my scalp that it was running down my face and into my mouth (disinfectant tastes bad). I was talking fast - very fast, asking Jen questions and then answering them myself. Probably the adrenaline. I found a bit of blood trickling through my hairline and decided I'd better head to the local hospital - I'd heard Malaysian healthcare was supposed to be pretty good. One taxi ride later, we found ourselves wandering around trying to find A&E realising we had ... read more

The last time you had heard from us we were in Jerantut. From here we decided to go to Kuala Terengganu (a strict Muslim city) for a couple of days as we had time to kill and we read that it might have been an interesting stop over, off the tourist track, on our way to Pulau Perhentian. Rather than do the jungle train that gets you into the jumping off point for the Perhentians at silly o'clock at night. On the bus ride we headed up the east coast and passed through lots of little Kampungs (villages) some with just wooden shacks, women sitting around on their doorsteps in groups and of course little shacks for places to eat (asia seems obsessed with eating). The bus rides were quite pleasant and were a good opportunity ... read more