Blogs from Malaysia, Asia - page 770

Another day of diving, another two dives. On the first dive we saw a good range of maring life, including a number of turtles. When we were back on the surface I felt a pain in my arm. Sarah, the divemaster said it was just sealice, but when we got back on the boat she realised it was a proper jellyfish sting, and out came the vinegar! Thankfully no one had to pee on my arm tho. My sting was pretty trivial compared to the injuries on board though - two snorkellers had decided to climb on some rocks above the dive site and fallen, cutting themselves quite badly. We had to go back to Tekek to take them to the clinic before we could get onto our final dive of the day - which allowed ... 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

So we have ended up on yet another paradise island! Yes I know, it's hard. You wouldn't believe the dilema that faced us! We were struggling with which paradise island to go to! See the Perhentian Islands is made up of the big island (Besar) and the small island (Kecil). Well in the end we chose Kecil, long beach. It was a good choice. Upon arriving at the jetty we were mobbed by only one boat tout, which was surprising. Andy checked out the options of getting to the island. There are slow and fast boats, the slow ones being half the price, but when asked about the slow boats he was given blank answers. Why? So we caught another speed boat over to the island, this time I (Melissa) went on willingly, but held on ... read more

It was a year ago when I was visiting Sabah and now it is still the best state to have our 'Cuti-cuti Malaysia'. After travelling so far to another part of the world, I only realised that my own country is so beautiful. Due to my asthma problem, climbing Mt. Kinabalu used to be something I never thought of - at least never appeared in my list-to-do-in-my-lifetime…..until Wai Yee asked me to joint their team to Sabah. After a terrible (but still lots of fun though) experience in Gunung Ledang, I thought things wont get any worse and I decided to challenge myself again. After a few so called ‘training’ at Batu Cave (walking up and down the nearly 300 steps) we thought we were ready and voila, we were in Sabah after CNY. First day ... 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