Blogs from Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia, Asia - page 196

After getting ready this morning, I headed to the bus station and got on the bus to the Cameron Highlands - a region developed by the British for tea plantations and also as an escape from the tropical heat. The loading of the bus provided for an interesting experience. About 15 minutes before departing, the storage compartments were opened and I, along with a Brit, tossed my backpack in and made toward boarding the bus. However, before we made it, the bus driver intercepted us and grabbed the Brit and told him he had to reload his bag - in Chinese. The Brit politely shuffled his backpack a bit, unfortunately not to the satisfactory of the driver, prompting him to repeat his command, with twice the volume for good measure - still in Chinese. The bewildered ... read more

In Singapore I caught the bus to Kuala Lumpur without event and even arrived at the bus station I was guessing I would be dropped off at. However, adventures began as soon as I made it to KL. Locating my hostel turned out to be an epic quest, replete with a number wrong turns, inaccurate maps, unlabeled streets, last minute research in not one but two internet cafes and a partridge in a pear tree. Though I am not known for innate navigational talents, I can say that Kuala Lumpur is worse than most towns in this regard. Eventually, my means of blazing my path bore an eery resemblence to my approach to math, namely utilizing the guess and check method. In my defense, look at a map of this city, and you will notice two ... read more

We didn't have many expectations of Malaysia, esp KL as it has been described in previous blogs as a rather dirty and hot city. But we were pleasantly surprised, the streets were clean (compared to Mumbai), it was really hot and humid, but there were numerous shopping centres and public transport was great and cheap! Fortunately for us we were staying in Chinatown, near Petaling Street which was an excellent location, bus and metro routes close by and a hostel who has really helpful members of staff (Wheelers). I couldn't shop as much as I wanted to as I really can't carry anything else- also we were going overland to Singapore so I didn't really want to go through there with all of my shopping bags! Guess what.... We found a M & S, I was ... read more

Hello all! Well our fist day was pretty hectic! After a long flight, (and not succesfully joing the mile high club!!) we arrived in KL airport at 3.30am, caught the KLIA express train to the city (28mins) to dicsover the heavens had opened up and it was pouring cats and dogs! We were in our room by 6.00am, which we think is actually pretty good time! After a quick nanna nap and breaky we ventured out into the unknown! low and behold by the time we got outside we needed another change of clothes! We never imagined two people could sweat so much!! The place we stayed was pretty good, basic but clean and had a really cute rooftop garden, where we took the photo of our new little friends (you will be seeing alot of ... read more

Hello all, well i finally got off my backside and did some serious travelling for the first time in a week or so!! Due to a very long lie in in my little beach bungalow at Lamaii on Koh Samui on Friday i decided it best to make a move on Saturday!! Spent Friday on a moped ( again ) and did a bit of sightseeing-went to see the Big Buddha-its big and its a buddha. Then did a bit of clothes shopping in Chaweng as the Thai laundry ladies seem to love putting big holes in all my t-shirts.Even went to get a haircut-grade 2 all over ( sorry mum ). Left by ferry from Koh Samui Saturday morning and arrived in a crappy little village called Donsak on the mainland about 2 hrs later. ... read more